Ramona: Why I Married My Husband Again

On March 14, exactly 18 years to the day after they first walked down the aisle, Ramona and her husband renewed their vows in Manhattan's posh Pierre hotel. "It meant so much to me to do it there," Ramona tells Life & Style, opening up exclusively about the special day. "It's where I originally wanted to get married."

Also very touching to Ramona: Her co-stars, who had been warring with one another all season, put aside their differences to attend the ceremony. "Jill [Zarin] put up a little bit of a fuss, and so did Kelly [Bensimon], but in the end, everyone came and had a wonderful time."

"This past year I've been renewing myself," she says. "I've renewed my career, my look, my friendships. I've renewed myself in so many ways, so I said, 'You know what, I want to renew my vows with my husband!'"

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Jill Zarin: Cried for 3 Days After Party Crashing

Jill Zarin tells UsMagazine.com she still can't get over the frosty reception she received surprising Ramona Singer, Alex McCord and Bethenny Frankel on vacation in the Virgin Islands.

"It was such a Mean Girls moment that I literally cried for like two or three days," she tells Us. "They didn't offer me a glass of water or a bathroom! We had just traveled nine hours, and they knew it. I had to pee! You have no idea what a schlep it was. Schlep doesn't even describe it!"

Zarin, 46, originally told Singer, 53, she wouldn't go on the trip -- which was to celebrate Singer's marriage vow renewal -- because of her feuds with Frankel, 39, and McCord, 36. But she tells Us she decided to swing by on her way to St. Bart's to declare: "'I'm here to make up with everybody!'"

Zarin says Singer and McCord refused to give her a chance to explain.

"Alex was the one to really throw me out," she tells Us. "If she said, 'I don't care‚' then Ramona would have had me stay. [And] why didn't Ramona say to Alex, 'Jill is my friend. She should have called, but I'm not throwing her out'?"

Says Zarin, "It was the most hurtful thing that's ever happened to me."

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Mario, Ramona, Alex, Simon: Memorial Day Fun

Mario Singer, Ramona Singer, Alex McCord, Simon Van Kempen attend a Memorial Day party hosted by Haley and Jason Binn on May 30, 2010 in Southampton, New York.

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Alex McCord: Kelly "Much Crazier" in Real Life

You call that crazy?

According to Real Housewives of New York star Alex McCord, fellow castmate Kelly Bensimon's erratic behavior documented on Thursday's episode was nothing compared to unseen footage left on the cutting room floor.

"It was much more [crazy] in real life," McCord tells Usmagazine.com of Bensimon's freakouts during a group vacation on St. John's. "Much more crazy!" McCord claims that the editing actually made Bensimon look "better."

On the instantly-infamous episode, Bensimon called McCord a "vampire," accused Bethenny Frankel of trying to stab her to death in a dream, and randomly burst into tears.

"I remember the first time that Kelly mentioned that she thought I was channeling the devil. It was in the middle of the soup course!" McCord tells Us. "That wasn't the first time that had happened. Throughout the trip, it just came out of the blue."

Although McCord and pals Sonja Morgan, Frankel and Ramona Singer initially found Bensimon's outbursts amusing, they quickly realized her tantrums were no laughing matter.

"Sonja was the one who pegged it at one point, saying, 'Wow. We're dealing with someone who is not being rational. We have to stop,'" McCord explains. "There was definitely a moment when we all clicked into realizing we had to stop picking part all the insane things being said because there's a reason beyond anyone's control, beyond her control."

Bensimon, 42, sees the situation a bit differently. On Friday, she told New York magazine's Vulture: "Some people are like, 'You had a breakdown,' and I'm like, no, I had a breakthrough!"

And even though the trip took place back in November, McCord and her castmates remain mystified by Bensimon's disturbing behavior.

"We've all talked after we saw the episode," McCord recalls. "We just said, 'Are you seeing what I'm seeing? Are we on the same planet?' When things that happen that are that irrational, you think it's you. We thought maybe our memories had distorted. But when [my husband] Simon saw it he said, 'Okay. Now I understand what you were talking about!"

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Ramona Singer: How I Got My Hot Bikini Body

Despite being 53, Ramona Singer has a body many women half her age would envy, and admits she works hard to stay in shape.

Singer, who recently renewed her wedding vows to Mario, has always exercised but amped up her workouts after turning 30.

'I DO LOTS OF SQUATS'

"My overall favorite exercise to do — just because it works — is squats," Ramona told Life & Style. "It works your core, your butt, your thighs, everything."

When she wants to drop 5 pounds fast, Singer cuts all her portions in half, cuts out alcohol altogether and drinks green tea with breakfast and lunch to speed up her metabolism.

Ramona snacks on antioxidant-rich blueberries and eats lots of fish, turkey and chicken with vegetables and scales back on starches.

'LIFTING WEIGHTS DRAMATICALLY CHANGED MY BODY'

In addition to calisthenics and aerobic workouts, Ramona lifts weight to maintain a toned, lean physique.

"When I turned 30 I realized that to maintain a youthful body, aerobics and biking were not going to cut it," she says. "I realized the women older than me whose physiques I always admired, such as Raquel Welsh and Jane Fonda, were doing free weights/body lifting. So I decided to give it a try and noticed great results after 4 to 6 weeks lifting 4 to 5 times a week."

She adds: "I actually developed triceps and biceps. I dropped a whole dress size, from a 4 to a 2, without losing weight, but from the strengthening and toning of my muscles. The lifting actually tightened, or should I say, shrank my body. It was amazing!"

In addition to a healthy lifestyle, Singer says a positive attitude goes a long way to a better life. "Some people look at the glass half empty," she says. "I always look at the glass as half full. My philosophy in life is to be positive."

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Kelly Bensimon: "Embarrassed by My Behavior"

Kelly Killoren Bensimon may have come off looking like a loon on last night's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City, but whatever. Bensimon insists what you see is not what you get.

Especially the seemingly nonstop bickering during last night's episode about Ramona Singer's all-girl weekend getaway...

"Enjoy it," Bensimon told me earlier today with a laugh. "Have fun with it because that's going to make my name bigger and bigger and give me a bigger platform to be charitable."

And believe it or not, Bensimon says she's actually missing her frenemies now that they're not filming.

"I'll be honest with you, I miss it. I miss the drama," she said. "I welcome the craziness. Listen, I'm on a TV show, and I'm having blast."

However, Bensimon admits she doesn't relish when she responds to the drama of the moment by lashing out at her costars, like calling Bethenny Frankel a "ho-bag" or questioning the then-mom-to-be about her professional experience by sneering she was more of a cook than a chef. "I'm so incredibly embarrassed by my behavior," she said. "That I would let someone or some situation get to me...I am so horrified."

Bensimon continues to be friends with this season's villainess, Frankel's former BFF Jill Zarin. "It's an edited-for-television show," she said. "Each and everyone one of us works really, really hard to entertain you. For people to take it seriously, that really disturbs me."

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