Kiki Barth is sounding off on the continuing feud between her “Actual Housewives of Miami” castmates Larsa Pippen and Lisa Hochstein.
“It’s not about choosing sides,” the truth star tells Web page Six’s “Digital Reali-Tea” in an unique interview, noting that she “fully understands” the place Pippen is “coming from” amid the latter’s discord with Hochstein.
On the hit Bravo actuality present, the women have been at odds as a consequence of Hochstein failing to unfollow Pippen’s ex-beau Marcus Jordan after the pair parted methods.
Pippen had been vocal in regards to the ache she felt from the cut up as Jordan allegedly harassed her and people in her social circle with hurtful — and, at instances, purportedly threatening — textual content messages, maligning the mother of 4.
Hochstein’s boyfriend, Jody Glidden, additionally thought-about himself to be an in depth good friend of Jordan’s. The couple’s resolution to nonetheless affiliate with the son of NBA legend Michael Jordan after the breakup solely made issues worse.
“If I’m with a person, I introduce you to my man, you’re my finest good friend for a few years, if I break up with that man, if there isn’t any drawback, then it’s OK [to still follow him],” Barth says. “But when that man is bashing me, as my good friend, I might need you to unfollow him at the very least out of respect for me.”
Nonetheless, the Haitian-born magnificence offers Hochstein a little bit of grace in terms of Glidden’s dynamic with Marcus.
“So far as Jody, I don’t suppose Lisa has any management of that as a result of Jody is man and might do no matter he desires to do,” she explains. “I simply really feel like Larsa is damage as a result of Larsa looks like she launched Marcus to them.”
Barth notes that when Pippen — who’s presently courting basketball hunk Jeff Coby — referred to as issues off with Marcus for good in July 2024 following a succession of public lows, she instantly smashed the unfollow button.
“Larsa launched me to Marcus and me and Marcus have been following one another. And as quickly as they broke up — I wasn’t even in a superb place with Larsa — I unfollowed him as a result of … of the respect I’ve for my girlfriend,” she tells “Digital Reali-Tea.”
“I met him by her. So I unfollowed as a result of what else am I going to have in frequent with Marcus with out Larsa?”
Throughout a current look on “Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen,” Pippen acknowledged that Hochstein finally unfollowed Marcus — however confirmed that the ex-besties have but to restore their relationship.
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“I really feel like she’s not likely a superb good friend to any of [the ‘RHOM’ cast members],” shared the Larsa Mild founder, who obtained into an explosive verbal match with Hochstein within the Season 7 premiere — leading to two separate dismissals from Glidden’s party.
“I simply really feel like, for me, Lisa’s my good friend. She ought to, , make me really feel good. If I say to her, ‘Hey, I don’t suppose you have to be following my [ex-]boyfriend,’ it doesn’t take that a lot for her to say, ‘Yeah, you’re going by this. Let me simply unfollow him,’” Pippen elaborated.
“That might’ve ended our drawback.”
Pippen additionally clarified that Glidden’s enduring friendship with Marcus wasn’t as bothersome as Hochstein’s hesitance to chop ties with the sports activities scion’s social media accounts.
“I don’t care about Jody. It wasn’t about Jody,” mentioned the Bravolebrity, who was beforehand married to basketball celebrity Scottie Pippen from 1997 till 2021. “It was actually about Lisa. It took endlessly for Lisa to unfollow him.”
“The Actual Housewives of Miami” airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo with new episodes airing the subsequent day on Peacock.