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"Are you watching The Real Housewives of Miami yet? If not, you totally should be. The second season premiered last week, and this show is bigger, better, and waaaay more dramatic than last season. One episode in, and I&amp;#x27;m already addicted. Housewives Lea Black, Alexia Echevarria, Joanna Krupa, and Ana Quincoces stopped by the Glamour offices to dish the dirt on this season and prove why their franchise is the best Real Housewives yet...From left to right: Marysol, Ana, Adriana, Joanna (sitting), Lea, Karent, Lisa What&amp;#x27;s different this season compared to last season? Lea: I think the [new] girls bring another dimension to it. I think the production team did an over-the-top, amazing job. Joanna: I think it&amp;amp;#8217;s a combination of a lot of things, and they could have done four seasons out of the content they got this season. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t even know how they&amp;amp;#8217;re going to pick and choose! There was too much going on. It was just crazy. Lea: I think the shows done to this point didn&amp;amp;#8217;t capture Miami the way it should be. You have the glamour, you have the beauty, you have the oceans, you have the night clubs, the restaurants. Everything will be incorporated in one thing&amp;amp;mdash;Miami, and that&amp;amp;#8217;s what I&amp;amp;#8217;m mostly excited about. Alexia: You&amp;amp;#8217;re going to see sexy Miami, and the parties that we go to, the interaction between the women, our family lives, our professional lives&amp;amp;mdash;everything is different. It&amp;amp;#8217;s going to be a totally different show. What distinguishes Miami from the other Housewives franchises? Lea: Everything! The sunshine, the beaches, the nightlife, supermodels, the sport cars, the languages, the culture, the weather changes on a dime, the hurricane now and by four o&amp;amp;#8217;clock the sun is out. Just everything is different in Miami. Joanna: Also, compared to the other Housewives franchises, I think our cast is the most beautiful. Lea: I love that you&amp;#x27;re always talking about me. Joanna: I think we have a really good-looking cast! I really do. We could be in competition with Beverly Hills because they have some hot mamas there. I think we are one of the best. Ana: It&amp;amp;#8217;s so diverse, not just in nationality, but it&amp;amp;#8217;s a true representation to the true melting pot that is Miami. I think they&amp;amp;#8217;ve taken the best from all the franchises and really combined it into one show. Alexia: Definitely the Latin women. I think we have ingredients from every show. From Beverly Hills, we have the wealth, the glamour. We have the family thing from Jersey&amp;amp;mdash;we have everything from every show. I think that&amp;amp;#8217;s what&amp;amp;#8217;s so special. There&amp;#x27;s some new housewives! Did that cause any tension? Were the original housewives welcoming? Lea: I think the new ones... Want to go down the list? Let&amp;amp;#8217;s start with Karent. I think Karent came on a little strong, and people didn&amp;amp;#8217;t warm up to her very fast. And then once people started getting to know who she was, certain ones of us really warmed up to her and others alienated her more. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s go to Lisa. Lisa is adorably cute, but she&amp;amp;#8217;s very sensitive, so once people realized she was sensitive, I was a little more careful with her. But she can be cute. And then we have Ana, who I had only met once before we started filming when she was a chef at one of the pig roasting parties. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t interact with her much this year, but she really has an interesting perspective on things. That&amp;amp;#8217;s all the new ones. And this one [Joanna], the blonde bombshell, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not giving her any more attention or airtime. Enough fabulousness already. Joanna: [Laughs] Thanks a lot. Ana: I&amp;amp;#8217;ve been friends with Alexia longest. And I&amp;amp;#8217;ve known Marysol for a while, and we&amp;amp;#8217;ve become close as a result of it. I think that the original cast&amp;amp;mdash;we&amp;amp;#8217;re not going to call them the old because I know how it feels&amp;amp;mdash;there&amp;amp;#8217;s kind of an uneasiness because it&amp;amp;#8217;s their territory, but I felt that I got the best of both worlds. They welcomed me. Over all, it was a very positive experience. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t think it was planned that way. I think that it&amp;amp;#8217;s a natural instinct to be around what you&amp;amp;#8217;re familiar with. Any introduction the first time, you&amp;amp;#8217;re going to get that. You have to see how the episodes progress and how the show evolves to see that. Even though there are fights, at the end, we really like each other. What was the craziest moment that happened during filming? I&amp;#x27;m assuming slaps are involved... Joanna: Yes. Somebody physically assaulted me. That never happened to me in my life. I know I&amp;amp;#8217;m very verbal. I speak my mind, but I don&amp;amp;#8217;t speak my mind for nonsense, and it kind of got out of hand. Ana: None of this is scripted, but that happened so unbelievably organically that the producers were like, &amp;amp;#8216;What?&amp;amp;#8217; It went so fast, from 0 to 60. It was spontaneous combustion. Any crazy moments that didn&amp;#x27;t happen on camera? Ana: For me, right when we started filming, I had a relationship&amp;amp;mdash;a boyfriend&amp;amp;mdash;who didn&amp;amp;#8217;t want to appear on the show, so there was a lot of backlash with that. I had a little breakdown about him not going to an event with me, and I threatened to quit. I became that person. I never thought I would. I tell my friends, &amp;amp;#8216;How does that happen?&amp;amp;#8217; It&amp;amp;#8217;s something that happens to you when you become a &amp;quot;Housewife.&amp;quot; No offense, but the things you focus on are so different. Alexia: I think the viewers at the end will know who is for real and who is faking it, and who was trying to bring it on. The smart viewers who are really watching the show and follow this, they know. You can&amp;amp;#8217;t fool the cameras. Lea: There was a lot of sneaking around and changing personas that was happening on that show. What they did in front of the camera compared to how they act behind the camera&amp;amp;mdash;there was a lot of that. Joanna: In front of the camera, everything&amp;amp;#8217;s happy and dandy. Behind the camera, it&amp;amp;#8217;s a backstabbing, two-faced side. What was your reaction the first time you saw yourself on TV? Joanna: I hate watching myself on television, honestly. I really don&amp;amp;#8217;t like it. I watch it once, I write my blog, and I&amp;amp;#8217;m done with it. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t like it. Lea: If I were her, I&amp;amp;#8217;d probably look at it all day. Joanna: Being in the modeling world and doing different TV shows, doing Dancing with the Stars, I&amp;amp;#8217;m very critical of myself. I always see what I could have done or what angle I should have stood by the camera to look better or the lighting. I&amp;amp;#8217;m very critical of myself, always. Lea: I&amp;amp;#8217;m glad someone is. Ana: I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t prepared, I think. I would love to prepare more for next season. There&amp;amp;#8217;s people who had stylists, makeup, and hair, and it&amp;amp;#8217;s like, &amp;amp;#8216;That&amp;amp;#8217;s a great idea. I want that!&amp;amp;#8217; Especially if you have a full-time job. It&amp;amp;#8217;s tough to look put together all the time. Sometimes they will call you at a moment&amp;amp;#8217;s notice&amp;amp;mdash;it&amp;amp;#8217;s no Big Brother, you don&amp;amp;#8217;t have them on top of you 24/7&amp;amp;mdash;you have some team. And I&amp;amp;#8217;m like, &amp;amp;#8216;I don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to worry about what I&amp;amp;#8217;m going to wear.&amp;amp;#8217; So that part I would do differently. That took a lot more time than I expected. Alexia: Seeing yourself on TV is totally different. I remember season one, you&amp;amp;#8217;re so critical of yourself. This season, I was looking at my neck, and I was like, &amp;amp;#8216;Oh my God, my neck.&amp;amp;#8217; You know what I mean? The viewers don&amp;amp;#8217;t see it, but you start looking. You focus more on what you look like physically&amp;amp;mdash;sometimes you miss what&amp;amp;#8217;s coming out of your mouth. Tune in to Bravo TONIGHT (and every Thursday) at 9 EST to watch! And here&amp;#x27;s a pic of Lea, Lindy, me, and Joanna at the Glamour HQ... And me with Ana and Alexia! Have you been watching? More Obsessed... *10 80s and 90s Fab Pics of Our Girl Christina Applegate *Our 5 Favorite Celebrity Tantrums and Walk-Offs *Is Blake Lively Pregnant? And Other Celeb Baby Updates Photo: Bravo"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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