Ramona Singer Reveals How Childhood Domestic Violence Inspired Her To Succeed
Ramona Singer is known as the blunt and opinionated star of The Real Housewives of New York, but don’t let her tough exterior fool you. Before she became a successful business woman, Ramona endured domestic violence as a child and she is crediting her mother’s story for helping mold her into an independent woman.
Ramona tells Rumor Fix, “My mother was a victim of domestic violence and I always said to her ‘Why don’t you leave dad?’ And she said, ‘You know what? I can’t.’ Because at that time they didn’t have shelters they didn’t have places for people to go to and she said, ‘Just promise me, always make your own money have your own career so this way if you want to get married you can, if you don’t you don’t.’”
Ramona says her mother’s advice was the best she has ever received and that’s what drove her to start her own business and become a self-made woman who didn’t need to rely on a man. Ramona adds, “If you have a marriage, your spouse will treat you more as an equal and if something goes wrong, God forbid, if you have money in the bank account … and that was probably the best advice I got. That’s what drove me to do well in business. So I put myself through college I opened up my own business when I was 29 years old — it was very successful. I was probably the only Housewife that came on the show with like a million dollars in the bank by the time I was 37 years old.”
Love her or not, I think this is very admirable. Do you agree with Ramona?
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YES I DO!!
Me too!
I not only agree I also tell my daughter to never rely on a man to support her. I think that’s some of the best advise a mother can give a daughter!
Totally agress
Ramona can do no wrong in my book
I really don’t like Ramona on the show, but I absolutely agree with this!!
Ramona refuses to acknowledge she still has a ton of idiosyncrasies and problems because of her history. An 80 year old man placing his hand on your arm is abusive? Not only that she sees buskers and calls abuse when there’s nothing there. She’s got plenty of phobias herself and needs a therapists as much as Aviva.
Buskers=insults lol
Autocorrect is so weird!
Maybe she does , who knows ( therapy?) but if you lived the way she did growing up, maybe you may think differently, just a thought! To her, it made her uncomfortable at a domestic violence charity. Bottom line is he should not have been there and it was not for him to get involved in any way shape form, or touching. Violated personal space, IMO.
yeah an 80 year old man is still a man and he was aggressive. being 80 is no excuse for acting like a complete jackass.ramona doesn’t have phobias. she is neurotic and can be annoying but at least she admits she can be wrong and knows that she can be too much. aviva has a bunch of phobias and uses them as an excuse to act like a bully. no matter how much you dislike ramona it’s not okay how aviva and her pervy father acted towards her and sonja.
Down with Aviva!!! She really is a killjoy! You would think, because she talks enough about it, after her trauma as a child that she would be living life to the fullest, especially with her kiddos!!! She is going be in therapy when she is old for being allergic to FUN.
I totally agree with you, totally. What many of my friends would say with a woman like Ramona, she’s unstable and she’s dangerous. The reason why Mario can stand it is one that he loves her and two, he has something on the side and has figured out how to feed her insecurities. If you are going to go ape crap over any and all touches what about when she goes and touches a man that isn’t her husband. Would it be okay for that man to cry out and get her away from him. This is an equal society or should be, if it’s okay for her it’s okay for him and even if your touching is in comfort or even jest so what. We will be a nation of people who are not supposed to touch.
If you want to live in that world, it will be lonely. Ramona still have issues and she needs to therapy to distinguish between things. If not one day it might be your son or husband that bumps or pushes a woman away who is coming at him for no reason and she cries assault.
Ramona is not unstable or dangerous. That’s ridiculous. She acts over the top because she’s bringing the drama.The only true nutcase on RHONY is Aviva.
I admire Ramona’s business success and the fact that she started at the bottom and built it all herself.
Who’s to say that Aviva isn’t bringing on the DRAMA. You mean to tell me that we should all go through live bringing on the drama as you say. Bringing on the drama is what gets people killed or incarcerated. And when I say she’s dangerous I mean to others and not her. If you are someone she wants to attack or cause “drama” with she might make you look like an attacker or anything she wants in her mind. Because the way she grew up males are aggressive so any male that is aggressive (irregardless if it’s okay for them or her to do so) she considers to be an abuser.
You can’t go through life living like like that, thinking that every man is an abuser. If so then a man can through life thinking all women are gold diggers and you know what. Remember, that Old man was some womans child and he was Aviva’s dad. Why do you think that Aviva went after Ramona on that. It’s because she knew what type of victim game she was playing and didn’t want her dad to be caught up in it. You can have problems and still be successful, we all have problems. The issue is she goes out and tries to gin up more and then play victim.
I think Aviva has different drama that should not be on tv, LOL! I have to say though, I do like me some Ramona. And your response above in re to to touch, I see your point but, she felt “invaded’ and uncomfortable at that time. Not everyone would react that way, but she did and I would have been pissed if Grandpa ( he is a bit of a perv lets keep it it real) di that to me at that time and place. That situation was not just an innocent bumping into or pushing.. and most people would apologize for offending someone! Other times, its by accident and still apologized for.And Ramona did not come at him- he came to her party – domestic abuse charity- and he was uninvited.
Also you may know of this term being lied on. Where a man is lied on by someone and then said person goes and attacks that person because she or he said that you did something that you may not or was exaggerated to be. So many families have been destroyed because one womans (I declare someone help me, I declare) tries to say things went one way and then find out that it wasn’t and she gets some male to attack the person of her interes.
Also I wonder this too, why was Mario so friendly to George if he “assaulted” Ramona?
He respects his elders Buck! I know what you are referring to in your post, but that is not what happened. Believe me, I see it far too often where we live and with my husband’s job. I have seen innocent people get punished, and other times, the real aggressors get away with it- hate it. Im trying not to read too much into this, I will get carried away! IMO, Grandpa George should have not been there in first place. And future reference, no man should put his touch on someone else’s wife. If she felt violated, thats how she felt! He was not supposed to be there .
I agree with you, no man should.
buck , you seem to be reaching or reflecting on the whole pervy george/ ramona thing? as you can see through the years ramona has no problem being touched by a man. you saw how cozy she was with george at the beach. the problem is george over stepped his boundaries, getting into her face demanding an apology for his lunatic daughter and grabbing her arm when she wouldn’t listen to him. she has grown up in a violent household as a child so that probably triggered a bad memory. regardless pervy george has no business putting his grabby hands on her and there was evidence. video evidence. i don’t know why you’re turning that into something else sinister on ramona’s part. i do agree ramona exxaggerated when she retold the story. you tend to exxaggerate when you’re in an argumentive state. did something like that happen to you? is that why you think what pervy george was okay and turning the situation into a female/male debate?
Ramona can be over the top but when she saw him she handled him with elegance and class and thanked him for coming and told him she didnt want to discuss his daughter with him. She said this repeatedly yet he persisted! Hes a dirty old man and I for one would not like his grubby hands on me! He was not invited nor was his intent good. He lied about how much they donated stating they gave more than everyone there put together but what came out was it was around $500 big frigging deal! No class vs White Trash? Ill take white trash any day!
Please go back and look at that scene again. Pervert George did not “place his hand on her arm”. Ramona was standing still and George was telling her she was wrong and should apologize because she did not adhere to his demands he grabs her upper arm on the tape you can see the indentations in her skin. This is a control and abusive move. Does not matter if you like Ramona or not this is abuse and women should not have to accept men grabbing them. And, George is 74 not 80–Aviva exaggerates to make it appear he is old and decrepit, we can all see Georgie is not feeble.
Oh hecks no-he is trying to get some wherever he can! Im all for protecting my old people, but George, he is a different animal. I would die if my grandparents or elderly parents EVER behaved like that! Funny how Aviva encourages his behavior, but calls Ramona and Sonja white trash, and WTH was the cougar comment?? George could be their father for Christ’s sake and she is calling them names? Logic please?
I totally think he invaded her personal space @ Tibi, and he was wrong! How could Aviva watch that and feel like she was wrong for telling him to leave? Again, logic please Aviva???
I feel a book coming on, talk shows and a foundation!!!! Whatev.
I really like Ramona and agree with her advice. Great about what her mom said and how it stuck with her.
I definitely agree! Love Ramona.
Ramona’s hard work and success as a business woman is to be admired. Almost as much as her ability to pop her eyes out like on celery stalks with a boiinnnng effect.
This is not really news, I remember her telling Avery this in season one. Great to shed some light on it though. This is great advice and all women should be able to take care of themselves if they need to.