What is the disease that Frankie has? My roomie and I were talking and missed it.

Cystic Fibrosis. A very, very deadly lung/mucous membrane disease. I was really surprised that she was smoking. Most people with CF don't live past her age. And, if they are still alive, they're either really ill or have already had a lung transplant. She should consider herself lucky; I was just shocked she was ruining that by smoking.

yeah, i was shocked when she said that and then was smoking..my friend's sister (who i also knew) passed away a few years ago from the disease..i think she was 20 or 21 when she died..

sigh...same stuff different day.

Thanks ZTAngel :)

the chick with huge boobs is a DG and the guy who dumed his gf on the first epsiode is an ato

Cameran is from my hometown! She went to one of our high school rivals when in high school! She went to TL Hanna High School (the school featured in the movie Radio) and I went to high school at Wren High School (the school where Shannon Faulkner graduated from and her mom teaches at). I guess my area is where everything is happening! lol. didn't realize it when I lived there!

I'm so boring compared to these people it makes me want to watch the drama. lol! :)

A group of us were watching the first episode and it was outta control! I just couldn't believe some of the stuff that went on and it just gets crazier from the previews!

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I truly believe that none of the stuff these people do on reality TV shows are real. I think they just play it up for the cameras. I'd bet that just like actors on a sitcom, many of the Real World cast members are completely different people in person. We all wonder how some of these RW people can be so crazy, out of control, and liberated and do stuff that we would never in our right minds do. I'm sure they're not normally like that. They just want the attention from the viewers who will watch it in a few months and the maybe even the possiblity of getting a movie deal out of it (or a playboy spread).

Not only that, but think of some of the stuff that you do over 5 months. Looking back over the past 5 months I've done stupid things, drunk and sober. That gets edited down to 11 hours worth of tape, not to mention the interviews and confessionals and things they have that don't even show anything that's going on in the house. It can't be too hard to make drama with what they have.

I'm quite sure that these people ARE for real, for the most part. Of course once you put cameras on them you're guaranteeing that they're not going to react perfectly naturally to all situations. And there are a few examples of people who are obviously not trying to be taken seriously -- i.e. Puck -- but in general it would actually surprise me a lot if these people weren't at least 90 percent genuine.

First, MTV deliberately casts for people that are going to be overdramatic all the time. Second, they put them in a situation where most people would overreact to stupid stuff -- crammed into a house where they're sharing bedrooms (NO privacy), no television, no music, you have to get permission from the producers before you leave the house, you have to work with these people . . . And third, it's 18 minutes of footage each week. You take six of my friends and me and put us in a house together for a week and I'm sure you could cobble together 18 minutes worth of drama. Easily.

Besides, if MTV was making this isht up, we wouldn't be subjected to things like THREE episodes of the Paris season devoted to who was slacking on their deadlines for the book. MTV could make up some more interesting stuff than that.

I do think that MTV does some "influencing" of minor players -- like when NO Melissa revealed that their boss was a major jerk to them on camera but totally nice off camera -- but I think that the "seven strangers" are, well, pretty much being themselves.

I agree that they're being their real selves, that MTV just searches out the most drama-causing people they can find. The girl who lived next door to me freshman year got through 3 or 4 levels of auditions, not quite sure, but she was definitely a drama queen, always in the hall on the phone yelling at someone, or yelling at someone in our dorm. All MTV needs to do is get one of those types in the house to wind everyone else up, and it's on.

I'm watching tonight and I respect Jacquese because if Robin said the n-word to me, I would be getting kicked off. Part of me does feel like MTV may have influenced Robin into saying it to start the first major drama and to get the first fight of the show. Part of me thinks that it slipped and she should know better than to say something like that and the history behind the word. It still gets me that she doesn't see what she did wrong but everyone else can see that she shouldn't have said it, even Brad. I don't know about the rest of the season, this will probably be a lingering issue.

Robin is all like, "I'm from the South and we use that word all the time." Um...I'm from Orlando which is only a few miles from Tampa which is where she's from. I would NEVER use that word nor do I know anyone who would use that word freely.
The girl has got issues.

ETA:
Cameran really needs to lay off the mascara. She's starting rival Tammy Faye.

I dont know if I should feel bad for Frankie or wonder if she wants attention and creates her "illnesses." I am not in any way downing anxiety (I hate major social anxiety issues) or Cystic fibrosis. She kinda seems like the type to make things up for attention. I could be totally wrong though!!!