THE RIZIK SISTERS

Alexandria (Age 27)

Mikaela (Age 24)

Angelica (Age 23)

Julia (Age 20)

Scottsdale, AZ

The Fantastic Four

These four beautiful sisters come from a big, super-close, crazy and over the top Armenian family. In fact, the tight-knit ladies ALL still live together in the house they were born and raised in! They have never lived apart, even their niece lives with them. It's like a big, dysfunctional sorority! They are a group of strong women who enjoy hanging out with each other over finding other friends to mingle with. Most do not understand their tight knit dynamic, but everyone wants to be a part of it!

Born to overbearing but loving parents, mom was a stay-at-home-mother and dad is an accomplished Cardiologist/Pulmonary Surgeon. Their father, having four beautiful daughters, was extremely overprotective and has been known to greet potential dates at the door with his gun! The girls have many relatives that live within a two-mile radius. Their grandma, a survivor of the Genocide, lives one block away and comes over daily with Armenian food. Grandma drinks, gambles and is a fiery 86 years young. Constantly being around family taught the girls the importance of a strong sibling relationship. Their father has five brothers (all lawyers, he’s the black sheep of the family because he’s a surgeon) who he speaks with daily. It’s no wonder where his girls inherited their sense of sibling bonding from.

The four sisters; Alexandria, Mikaela, Angelica and Julia all have very distinct personalities. Alexandra, dubbed, “The helicopter mom” for her overbearing, maternal reign on her sisters is the eldest and agreed upon leader of the pack. She’s an admitted hypochondriac and control freak who loves her wine and has never brought a decent guy home…. and her family always lets her know. She hovers and micro-manages her little sister's lives, like when she told her sister to remain a virgin and not have sex with her boyfriend at the time. She is loud and demanding but loves and supports her sisters in all their endeavors.

Mikaela is the smart-as-whip law student. She’s extremely sweet until provoked. Her sisters call her, “silent but deadly.” She constantly video records conversations on her phone. No one knows why and the sisters don’t love that their lives are being permanently documented... She’s a bit aloof and won’t realize that a family member has been out of town for several days.

Angelica is a free-spirited, wild child, “space cadet.” At nineteen years old, Angelica was incautious in her puppy love relationship and found herself pregnant. She was terrified of how her family would react, so she kept her pregnancy hidden for seven months until she finally came clean to her sisters! The sisters don’t understand how Angelica was able to hide the bump as they remember showering and sleeping in the same bed and would have noticed a baby bulge! Today, Angelica is a doting mother to her three-year-old daughter who she lovingly calls, “Zep.” She no longer has anything to do with the baby’s father. A hippy spirit to the max, Angelica is often found in the nude in her room meditating and reflecting on her life. She has a “crystal corner” where she goes to meditate and Zen out. She asks strangers their sign without remorse. As a full-on hypochondriac, she is never without her oximeter (a tiny device that slides over the fingertip to measure how well oxygen is binding to red blood cells). Her clean-freak, germ phobia means everyone who comes into her space must be super clean. It’s so bad she had to delete browsing engines on her phone so she couldn’t Google symptoms!  She can be moody, bitchy, loud, and wild but that is a trait that all the sisters possess. If anyone even thinks about bullying or talking smack to one sister, they will feel the wrath of the whole squad. 

Julia is THE DIVA of the sisters. She’s the youngest, most spoiled, and most entitled of the foursome. Dad says that baby Julia believes the world revolves around her, in her own, made up world. She’s described as spontaneous, salacious, boy-crazy and off-her-rocker! According to her sisters she falls in love like it’s her job. She’s sexy and flirtatious but has terrible taste in men. Although she loves to strut around in revealing clothing, most people are surprised to learn that she’s a virgin and she’s waiting for the right person to have sex with. Advice given to her by her sisters! Much to the chagrin of all her boyfriends, Julia is a wild child in life, but she’s going to remain a virgin! Also, don’t let her stunning looks fool you, she’s highly intelligent and perceptive. She’s obsessed with music and writes songs whenever she can do so.

Not only are there zero boundaries between them, but there are also zero boundaries in the house as a whole. The girls share a bathroom, even though they all have their own. They change, use the toilet, get naked, shower, and sleep together often. They all have their own rooms, but they spend most of their time in one bedroom. They know every detail about each other's personal lives, go on dates together and track locations just in case someone goes rogue. Once, Alexandria couldn't reach one of her sisters who was on a date, so she tracked them and showed up, banging on the window, along with the other sisters of course. They all must approve who someone is dating and if one sister doesn't like him: he has to go. If someone brings a boy home, one sister will sneak out and take pictures of his car and license plate. They've even gone on job interviews with one another and waited till the sister was out. They do everything together! They don't even have outside friends because they have each other and would be jealous or leery about an outsider joining the clique. Their mother, Tracy and Angelica's daughter Zep are also a part of the clique, so the house is basically a sorority.

Two years ago, Tracy suddenly fell very ill, and after contracting sepsis, because of a ruptured intestine, things weren't looking too good. This was extremely challenging for the girls; the mere thought of their mom not being around had all the sisters panicking. They leaned on each other more than ever. Their mom made a full recovery, and they are so thankful she is still around. 

All four of the radiant sisters are single and navigating building lives and careers outside of their safe, familial unit. Of course, all the girls want to eventually have what their parents have: a successful career, a happy marriage and plenty of children. However, achieving these things means stepping outside of their sister pod. Dating and building a relationship with a man means eventually moving out of their childhood home, getting married, and starting a family of their own. A demanding career again means sacrificing elements of their bond as sisters. This insular family has built its nearly perfect version of happy sisterhood, but for each of these extremely diverse, opinionated, and super close sisters to achieve their dreams means that something has to give.