--- description: The Real Housewives of New York star: "The only thing that is artificial or fake about me is this." title: Aviva Drescher Hurls Prosthetic Leg in 'Real Housewives' Clip image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12acb6a98dcbe227/69869c19e8524b4c08603ed5/aviva-drescher.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Video Might Be the Most Ridiculous _Real Housewives_ Moment Ever  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 17, 2014 2:41 PM CUT  Aviva Drescher Aviva DrescherDaniel Torok—McMullan/Sipa USA/AP  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 17, 2014 2:41 PM CUT First things first: Aviva Drescher is the realest. That’s what she’d like you to believe, at least, when she takes off her prosthetic leg and hurls it across the room to make a point about authenticity in the upcoming season finale of _The Real Housewives of New York City_. Drescher lost her leg at the age of six after a dairy farm accident in upstate New York, but, as the reality-star-philanthropist-[memoirist](http://www.amazon.com/Leggy-Blonde-Memoir-Aviva-Drescher/dp/1476722110 "undefined") explains on her website, she “has never let this tragedy define who she is.” Slamming her leg on the table and shouting the already-iconic line, “The only thing that is artificial or fake about me is _this_,” however, will at least be a defining moment for the Bravo show. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3001487/aviva-drescher-real-housewives-finale-leg/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3001487/aviva-drescher-real-housewives-finale-leg/"},"headline":"This Video Might Be the Most Ridiculous Real Housewives Moment Ever","datePublished":"2014-07-17T14:41:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:12:20.141Z","description":"Aviva for vendetta","url":"https://time.com/3001487/aviva-drescher-real-housewives-finale-leg/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12acb6a98dcbe227/69869c19e8524b4c08603ed5/aviva-drescher.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt12acb6a98dcbe227/69869c19e8524b4c08603ed5/aviva-drescher.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Aviva Drescher","caption":"Aviva Drescher","creditText":"Daniel Torok—McMullan/Sipa USA/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3001487/aviva-drescher-real-housewives-finale-leg/","name":"This Video Might Be the Most Ridiculous Real Housewives Moment Ever"}}]}] ```