Yolanda Hadid used the age-old “taken out of context” excuse while defending her infamous 2014 comment telling daughter Gigi Hadid to eat a “couple of almonds.”
Hadid addressed the controversial quote in a new interview with People on Thursday, claiming she was “half asleep” following surgery for breast implant removal when she said it on “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”
“Gigi was calling because she wasn’t feeling good and I apparently said, half asleep, ‘Have two almonds,’” Hadid , 58, explained.
“I don’t even remember why two or what. There was no rhyme or reason to it. It’s such a silly narrative that is out there, that has nothing to do with the reality of our lives.”
At the time, the Bravolebrity was on the phone with Gigi when she told her to “have a couple of almonds and chew them really well.”
“I always have a bag of almonds or a different kind of nut in my bag because when my blood sugar drops, I can grab a hand of nuts and eat them,” she told People. “It’s really good for that. But it’s not that I use it as a diet food. I don’t believe in diets anyway.”
Hadid also faced backlash for talking about her daughters’ appearances on more than one occasion during her four-year tenure on the hit Bravo series.
“You can have one night of being bad,” she previously told Gigi about eating at her birthday party. “And then, you’ve got to get back on your diet.”
“It’s hard to not eat any sugar, and it’s hard to have to eat salad every day,” she told Gigi in another scene.
The former supermodel has since poked fun at her controversial comments. Last month, she posted a TikTok video of her wandering around eating almonds and dubbed herself the “worst mom ever.”