For those of you who do not live in California this show will confirm every stereotype you have of California high maintenance women.
Following are the women and their stories...
JO DE LA ROSA -
Jo is a 24 year old immigrant from Peru. Her parents won the California Lottery which enabled them to move to Mission Viejo, CA from Tustin, CA. She graduated from UC Irvine with an English degree and began working in the title insurance industry where she met Slade Smiley. Joe is living with Slade in a very large, home in Coto de Caza. Slade is in his forties and wants Joe to be a housewife and stay home, cook for him and help take care of his two children, Grayson (5) and Gavin (16), from ex-relationships. Jo, loves the money aspect but isn't so into cooking, cleaning (she claims she doesn't know what Pledge is), or taking care of Slade's kids. Joe is into what all 24 year olds are into, clubbing and having fun. But what's a girl to do when her boyfriend/daddy Slade buys her a Mercedes and anything else her little vixen self desires. She does get engaged to Slade in Season 1. Slade constantly talks about how much money he has and how successful he is. She pretty much muddles through the 1st year as the sexy, young, not so housewifey newcomer to the neighborhood who constantly pretends not to know what everyday household items are or how to use them.
KIMBERLY BRYANT
She is a 40-something stay at home mom. She seems very caring and works hard to maintain her household as well as take care of her two children. She did get a breast augmentation to go from an A cup to a D cup for her husband. She said on the show that her husband asked her to get them after he noticed so many women in Coto have them so she thought why not? We find out that she has had melanoma and has to be extremely careful in the sun. At the end of the first year she is shown packing up and leaving to move her family to Chicago to get out of the sun. Apparently she had another scare as did her son. She is not in Season 2 or Season 3.
VICKI GUNVALSON
Vicki is a 40+ something, extremely successful insurance salesman who works out of her home. Her husband was out of a job for much of the first season. She has a son and daughter from her first marriage. She is very very controlling with her job, friends and family. Her children are given lists they must complete before she allows them to do anything else and she is found screaming on the phone to a van driver that did not bring a large enough van for the family to go the airport. She doesn't have much personal time and seems very insecure about her looks. Her daughter appears very responsible while her son is lazy and not exactly interested in following his mothers orders. She enjoys botox parties to try to stay young. She is very impressive as a woman who grew her insurance business into a very profitable money maker. She grew up in a middle class family in the mid-west. Her husband Donn is very down to earth but can get irritated with her when she doesn't listen and everything is done her way.
JEANA KEOUGH
Jeana is a pretty, heavy set, 52 year old top Real Estate agent married to an ex-professional baseball player who pitched for the Oakland A's. She was a Playboy Playmate of the month in 1980. She was also a back-up dancer in ZZ Top videos. They have two boys and a girl. Their daughter is a straight A student who has a good head on her shoulders and plays volleyball. Her older son Shane is crass, disrespectful and allowed to behave like a spoiled rich kid. He is known as the rabbit killer in Coto and claims to be a virgin. He flirts heavily with Jo but is pretty immature in his male/female relationship ability. Younger son Colton is a very talented baseball player who stutters in the first season whenever his bullying older brother is around. Shane seems to take great pleasure, as most brothers do, in constantly annoying his little brother. The father isn't around much and is said to always be traveling due to baseball. Jeanna, like Vicki, is very successful in her career. She is in the top 2% of other Real Estate agents nationwide that work for Re-Max. She is shown talking about how each of her children already own a home that she purchased for them. One wonders if these kids will ever attempt to work for anything since everything is handed to them.
LAURI WARING
She is a 46 year old, multiple divorced mother of three. She has two girls and a boy. Season one shows her commiserating on how she had to move out of Coto and downsize to a condo after her last divorce. Although she used to model her looks range from pretty to used/been around the block one too many times. Her son is in juvy for getting in trouble one too many times. Her daughter moves back in and has zero responsibility and seems to completely lack common sense. Lauri takes a job working for Vicki in her insurance business to make ends meet. The highlight of her year is to go to an invitation only party at the Playboy mansion where she enjoys pretending she is still 20 without any kids or responsibilities. Who wouldn't want to do that for a night? Of the 5 women from the first show, aside from Jo, Lauri is the one who really needs a dose of reality. Lauri's son is in juvy, her daughter moved back in without a job and isn't attending school and she has a young impressionable daughter to raise. Let's hope Lauri wakes up before it is too late for her young daughter Sophie to be on her own to navigate the world without any idea how it works.
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