I'm not willing to jump on any bandwagon that says "Kim is a misunderstood victim". I have no doubt that she can be a real #####, especially when she feels misunderstood or threatened. I've seen her bad behavior - but that house is full of bad behavior. I certainly wouldn't single her out as being unusually heinous.

I don't know anything about her outside life except what I have seen. So, with the phone conversations and actual screen time of her husband, it may be little more than 20 minutes of observable footage. I saw enough of her son to know that he adores his mother (a very different child than the children of Chloe and Christina). I do remember her husband saying that he loved Kim very much and he was committed to her. I also remember her calling several friends for an assignment, so she can't be totally toxic 100% of the time.

The time has come, and may be overdue, for Kim to face her demons and let herself grow up. In so many areas of her thinking and reasoning, she's back at the roach motel with dad. Children live what they learn, as they say. You live in a war zone, you become a fighter. You live with guerilla warfare, you learn to anticipate ambushes. Kim is no Maria von Trapp or Mary Poppins. She is wired to self-destruct or burn-out, and without help, that's probably what will happen.

Occasionally a few women come through the house who have experienced some of the most painful things that life hands out. A little girl being abandoned by her mom to become a punching bag for a deranged father in a filthy house is pretty horrific stuff. Of course she has big issues. Who wouldn't?

That being said, Kim deserved a fair chance on her first day in the house. Actually, I recall Jill's first day in the house (and she had the benefit of being on equal footing with the other women). I remember Jill pulling away from the other ladies, deciding which ones were bitches and who she was going to stay away from. She broke away from the group and called her mother to complain about them. I don't remember Kim doing anything nearly as anti-social or divisive.

Jill is a big talker. She has a selfish streak in her a mile wide. The woman made her living off of digging through people's garbage cans looking for humiliating "evidence" that those poor suckers didn't think of shredding. (Yeah, that's where Oprah started...) Their mistake became Jill's opportunity to regale her listeners with dirt and draw attention to herself in the process. She is a professional slanderer, and she is good at knowing exactly what to say, and how to say it, to give people negative opinions of strangers. Rarely have I seen a non-celebrity so taken with her own ability to turn a phrase.

Whatever Kim may be, she did not deserve to be put in Jill's crosshairs simply because she had the misfortune of being the first outsider to break the ranks of the "sensational six". If the situation were reversed and it was Jill who had the distinction of being HG #7 and Kim who started a campaign against her, I'd be defending Jill in this situation.

I am convinced that each of the women who listened to Jill's bitching and moaning about Kim were prejudiced against her. Nothing new there, that's the way it works. That's unfortunate because you cannot have a second chance at making a first impression.

It wasn't about Kim - not this particular issue - Kim was a variable. It was about Jill. Jill knows that and has addressed it in her journal. The damage is done - too little too late.

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