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While The Real Housewives of Miami never shies away from heated feuds, the rift between Larsa Pippen and Lisa Hochstein has proven especially personal and messy. Now, their castmate Kiki Barth is offering her take on the drama, and she’s not here to pick sides, but she’s not afraid to speak the truth, either.
“It’s not about picking sides,” Kiki told Page Six’s Virtual Reali-Tea in a candid new interview. “But I completely understand where Larsa is coming from.”
At the center of the fallout is Larsa’s very public breakup with Marcus Jordan — son of NBA legend Michael Jordan — and how her castmates reacted in the aftermath. While Pippen has been open about feeling hurt and allegedly harassed by Marcus after their split, what really stung was Lisa’s slow response to cutting social media ties.
“If I am with a man, I introduce you to my man, you’re my best friend for many years, if I break up with that man… I would want you to unfollow him at least out of respect for me,” Barth explained.
The situation grew more complicated by Lisa’s boyfriend, Jody Glidden, who reportedly remained close friends with Marcus even after the breakup. While that raised eyebrows, Kiki offered some understanding.
“As far as Jody, I don’t think Lisa has any control of that because Jody is a man and can do whatever he wants to do,” she said. “I just feel like Larsa is hurt because Larsa feels like she introduced Marcus to them.”
That introduction is what really seems to be at the root of Larsa’s frustration — the idea that she brought Marcus into their circle, and expected her friends to stand by her when things went south. Kiki, for her part, says she made the choice immediately and without hesitation.
“Larsa introduced me to Marcus and me and Marcus were following each other. And as soon as they broke up — I wasn’t even in a good place with Larsa — I unfollowed him because … of the respect I have for my girlfriend,” she said.
“I met him through her. So I unfollowed because what else am I going to have in common with Marcus without Larsa?”
Larsa herself spoke out on the issue during Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, confirming that Lisa eventually unfollowed Marcus — but not before some serious damage was done to their friendship.
“I feel like she’s not really a good friend to any of [the ‘RHOM’ cast members],” Larsa said, referencing her explosive Season 7 argument with Lisa, which ended in both women being kicked out of Jody’s birthday party.
Larsa insists the real issue wasn’t Jody’s ongoing connection with Marcus — it was Lisa’s resistance to taking her side publicly, even in a small way.
“I don’t care about Jody. It wasn’t about Jody,” she clarified. “It was really about Lisa. It took forever for Lisa to unfollow him.”
“I just feel like, for me, Lisa’s my friend. She should, you know, make me feel good. If I say to her, ‘Hey, I don’t think you should be following my [ex-]boyfriend,’ it doesn’t take that much for her to say, ‘Yeah, you’re going through this. Let me just unfollow him.’ That would’ve ended our problem.”
For now, the friendship remains fractured — and the tension is spilling across both the show and social media.
Catch new episodes of The Real Housewives of Miami Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET on Bravo, and streaming the next day on Peacock.
