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Pregnant in Heels: On Bravo, Rich People Remain the Worst

Like Bravo stars Patti Stanger and Jeff Lewis before her, Pregnant in Heels' Rosie Pope caters to a niche clientele of wealthy, high-strung, obnoxious people. The kind who want to pay her for her help, but will actually fight her help tooth and nail once they get it (Patti in particular is familiar with this kind of client behavior). On this particular show, these clients are also pregnant, so the stakes and hormone levels are slightly higher than a millionaire finding a trophy wife or a real estate developer renovating a kitchen, which is nice. It's also nice that Rosie is a lot calmer (at least so far) than her predecessors, though I worry that might get boring as the season goes on.

Last night's series premiere saw Rosie meeting with two expecting couples of varying degrees of crazy. One was a couple that wasn't really crazy about kids, and not really ready for their baby to come, which didn't strike me as nearly as scandalous as Rosie seemed to think it was, but the girl is only exposed to baby superfans 24/7, so I can see how it may have been a culture shock. The second couple was so psychotically bent on their fetus becoming the leader of the free world in 2052 that they demanded a panel of experts, plus a focus group, to choose a baby name that just screams success (that they didn't even end up using in the end). These people? Are definitely crazy, and NYC is full of them. If the show focus on subjects like the second couple, this show is going to be amazing. If it's more of people having semi-normal anxiety about becoming parents, it's going to be boring as hell. This is Bravo. I don't want normal, I want shameless freaks with no self-awareness. Let's not stray from the formula here.

As a person who doesn't exactly have a huge interest in babies, for me the episode's strength was the way it focused on the crazy people and just kind of shoved the actual baby moments to the very end of the episode. I was worried that a show about a maternity expert would be full of too precious scenes of women falling all over themselves about a series of adorable infants, but Pregnant in Heels definitely wasn't that. Huge relief, people. If they keep the entitled rich bitches, and I can somehow get over whatever speech impediment it is that Rosie has, this has the makings of a fun spring guilty pleasure.

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