Recap Little Women: LA “Home Wreckers” Season 2, Episode 9

It’s another week and we know that we’re going to see another fight on Little Women: LA.  Is anyone else starting to feel fight fatigue?

 

Briana and Matt and Christy and Todd go on a double date; thank goodness Matt hasn’t been scared off by the group’s insanity.It looks like they’re at the Santa Monica pier, but Christy and Briana are too small to ride most of the rides.

Elena and her husband have moved into their new house, which is adorable. It’s just in time too, because Elena’s mom is coming for her annual visit the day after they move in. (Why didn’t they pick her up from the airport? Who makes Mama take a cab?) Elena’s mom speaks no English and arrives wearing what looks like a bear. Because moving and having your mom visit aren’t stressful enough, Elena decides to invite the ladies over for a housewarming party. I’m not sure why Preston doesn’t lock her in a closet until she comes to her senses.

After 8 months of trying to get pregnant Christy and Todd explore IVF. Todd already lost a baby who was “double dominant” and IVF is a viable option for little people because it allows parents to do genetic testing on embryos to only implant healthy embryos that have the best opportunity to survive. Christy is a good candidate for IVF, but when the cost of genetic testing is added, IVF can come at a whopping $30,000 cost. Yikes!!!

Over at Terra’s house, she is prepping her baby’s cute nursery. And Traci is like Santa and come bearing fantastic gifts. It’s gotta be tough for her to have a friend who is pregnant, but Traci is happy for her friend. Traci and Erik are also considering IVF, but only to eliminate a double dominant pregnancy. Last season, Traci said she didn’t want to raise a little person child, but she’s changed her mind and would welcome any kid, as long as it’s healthy.  It’s a huge change for Traci, who said last season she didn’t want to bring another little person into the world. She’s obviously learning to love herself despite and because of her challenges.

Of course, Terra brings up Christy and Todd also considering IVF and the baby race continues.

Elena heads out with the girls to a comedy club and leaves Preston and mom home along with little more than a translating app on her iPad. I think there are many people out there who would love to have a language barrier with their in-laws.

Briana’s friend Brad is headlining at a comedy club, so she’s invited her friends to see him perform. He is also a little person, and her frequently uses the “M word” in his routine, and if you remember last season, the series started with the ladies yelling at Elena over the use of that word. Yup, 30 seconds into his routine, Brad drops the M-bomb and you can see Tonya’s eyes rolling in her head. She is fuming! Traci, the queen of the eye roll is also spinning her peepers. Later, Brad brings Briana on stage and gives her a lap dance. So awkward — because when isn’t a lap dance awkward? And hilarious — because when isn’t a lap dance hilarious? Tonya approves.

Later, Elena takes Terra to look at samples for her clothing line. She is making her line for both little people and average-sized women. The clothing is beautiful and looks fantastic on both Elena and her average-sized model, but let’s be honest, most women aren’t built like models, and most little people aren’t built like Elena. I hope that in her quest to make inclusive clothing, she’s making clothing that fits real bodies. Elena also leans that the cost of producing her line is crazy expensive and now that she and Preston have purchased a house, they are financially tapped out. (Later, Preston (who I adore) tells her that he believes in her line and they’ll find the funds.)

Terra and Joe go to a childbirth class. A very crunchy class. Because she’s a little person, she has to have a C-section, so I guess this is just a TV moment set up to make Lamaze instructors moan like lunatics. But don’t knock Lamaze until you’ve tried it. When you’re moaning during sex, you’re actually doing Lamaze.

Yay, Sunset Friday! That is one of Todd and Christy’s cutest traditions. It’s a time for them to connect, ditch the distractions and discuss the tough stuff. Todd tells Christy that insurance may cover more of and she reveals that if a magic pill existed that would make her tall, she would take it in an instant. She doesn’t want her future child to have to suffer like she did. Hearing her say this is so sad, not only for her, but for the two children that she already has who are little people. Todd says he is fine as a little person but he would have loved to avoid the many surgeries that he’s endured.

Briana is absent (on a date with Matt) so she misses Elena’s housewarming hell. The party had only just begun and the women are already laying into Christy about her investigating both IVF and adoption. Lay off ladies!

And they start rehashing old fights. Elena is tired of this Sh!t and I am too. Because once they start arguing, it gets heated fast. And then they start swearing at each other and waving their arms like loony birds and screaming like banshees. Then, they start calling each other the most terrible words imaginable. Who uses words like this? So classless. Elena tried to play the peacemaker, but all these women want to do I fight. Would any normal person still stay friends with anyone who called you things like “Fat pig,” “Stupid” “Bitch” or any of the even worse things they called each other? Even if this is done for the cameras, I’d still cry, then come out swinging. It’s gotta be staged, right? If my husband heard that much yelling, he’d for sure come running and kick everyone out.

Next week, Christy and Todd decide to take everyone to New Orleans. Why is the solution to all problems a sudden vacation? Also, New Orleans can be filled with the most drunken, feeble-minded, tourists in the history of the universe. I think the official slogan of the French quarter is “Show your T#Ts,” so the gang had better be prepared to back each other up. It’s no longer friend vs. friend, it’s gonna be the group vs. drunk morons.

What did you think of Little Women: LA “Home Wreckers”? Is it feeling phony? Are you feeling a little fight fatigue? Do we need a touchy-feely episode?