The Vindication of Ariana Madix

Public humiliation is the lifeblood of reality television. We want table flipping, we want?catchphrases, we want proposals and retracted proposals, we want?Scary Island, we want?shocking exits. We don’t so much want?jail sentences,?fake cancer diagnoses, or?genuinely horrific monsters, but we understand those are often a byproduct of a genre that exists without scripts. Even the people who try to do the right thing on reality TV are often considered jesters, jokes, sadsacks. Almost everybody appears to have an unquenchable thirst for fame or infamy and it shows. But Ariana Madix, as fans of?Vanderpump Rules?will surely attest, always seemed a little bit different. More content being her actual self, less?me, me, me!

Ariana Madix?sex life and sexuality?has since been publicly scrutinized, her known apathy toward marriage and procreation is now a thing to be reexamined, her struggles with mental health?have been weaponized?by someone she once trusted.

In Glamour's latest profile Ariana Madix opens up about how she leveraged her pain in front of a national audience.

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