.' And then she changed it to  The Real Housewives of Orange County' in case we did it anywhere else. And I was like,  Well, that's the stupidest thing I've ever. We're not doing this show anywhere else. Here we are, 10 cities later,  Cohen says.

Another turning point came when the New York iteration of  Real Housewives  was crafted out of a different project.

 We turned development for a show called  Manhattan Moms' into  The Real Housewives of New York.' When I tell you that my mind was so blown. I was like, wait a minute, we can do this in New York. And these women are couldn't be more different. It was like the New York women and the Orange County women were so different in the way they spoke and the way they lived, but they were women and they were dealing with issues that weren't so far apart. And it just worked,  Cohen says.

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