The Real World: Zola Rae (2008)

This is the true story... of a baby named Zola ... picked to live in a house... with her parents and have her life photographed ... to find out what happens when babies stop being polite... and start getting real...The Real World.


PART I: The Daily Routine

6:53 a.m. Zola slept in this morning. She's always happy when someone answers her little calls.


Everyone's happier with a clean diaper. Everyone.



Breakfast is good. Peaches and oatmeal. Dad was living dangerously without the protective sheet on the floor. Danger is Dirk's middle name. Bring it on.


I don't have a thing to wear!



Play-time in the Octagon. Right now, Zola especially likes to stack things or make them fit inside one another.


Zola isn't the most thoughtful roommate. She often leaves her dishes out for others to clean up.


PART II: Occasional Excursions

Dirk and Zola did a 13-mile run in Rothrock State Forest on Saturday. The heat, humidity, and bugs were almost more than we could bear.



We're not afraid to show all the details on this program: Diaper change on the trail? No problem.


After the run, we cooled off in the muddy waters of Whipple Dam.

Yeah, that's right. Zola just wears a diaper to swim. We're that kind of white trash family. I was going to make a joke about girls on The Real World who go swimming with minimal or no swimsuits, but c'mon, she's just a baby!




PART III: A Quiet Hobby

Zola is quite the gardening champ. We've been having a pretty nasty gypsy moth infestation this summer. Looks like she's caught a big one.




Part IV: The Dark Side of Zola Rae

Like many cast members of The Real World, Zola has a pretty big drinking problem. I'm guessing it stems from a strained relationship with her father.




"Brooke from The Real World: Denver said what? I can out-scream that crazy psycho! Hey Brooke, wanna go bowling?

P.S. You have a double chin."

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