Secret Lives of Women

In the season five premiere, four women who have a child that has killed someone are profiled, including, a gang-related killing, a case of child abuse that led to murder, an ex-Marine's rampage that left several dead, and one mother's fight to prove that her child is innocent.

Four women that are on drastic diets to lose weight are profiled, including prayer, starvation, eating raw foods, and "fregan" dumpster diving.

This episode profiled women that are involved in cults and mind-control groups.

In this episode, women who have gone through tough divorces are interviewed, including the highly publicized breakup of Dina Matos and former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, the divorce of Judy Steinberg from her husband, comedian David Steinberg, and a woman who is forced to share her house with her ex-husband, who has divided the house in half by a wall. This installment also features a woman who has a breakup-inspired online boutique, and a woman who has a bootcamp to help women get over the divorce.

Four women who work in the pornography industry are interviewed, including director Sky Blue, talent agent/actress Shy Love, and actresses Kenzi Marie and Gianna Lynn.

Women who are diagnosed with "dwarfism" discuss their stories, including a woman trying to break into the acting business, a woman studying clinical sexology, and a mom with a full-time job and a gig as a mascot.

Women who follow bands and sleep with the band members are profiled, including former 1960s groupie and author Pamela Des Barres, a former heavy metal groupie, Phoenix twins trying to revive rock music's golden age, and a woman who writes and distributes a groupie-themed newsletter.

Three women who have lost an incredible amount of weight are interviewed, including a woman who lost 100 pounds, a woman who shared her weight loss struggle on YouYube, and a woman who constantly exercises.

Three women who have been held as hostages are interviewed, including a teacher who was aboard a hijacked plane, a missionary kidnapped in the Phillippines, and a corrections officer kidnapped by two inmates in an Arizona prison standoff.

This episode follows the stories of two families, Anna and Mark Davis and Tanya and John Adams, who came together because of these women's desires to look for love outside of their country. The women also tell how they did it. And in a unique twist, the show will take you to Odessa, Ukraine to observe a social event where nearly 200 women attend to meet men from around the world in hopes of finding their happily ever after romance

Two women who have been in controlling relationships are profiled, including a woman who survived getting shot in the head and a woman whose abusive husband killed her three children. The show also takes a look in the Drew Peterson case.

Three women who have an incredible spending habit are interviewed, including a Los Angeles model who is a shopping addict even though she can afford it, a college student who buys everything with her unemployed parents' credit cards, and a woman who is $55,000 in debt. A former shopping addict also tells how she became a shopping addict and how finding her husband helped her recover. And the show takes a look at how people can become addicted to shopping.

Three women who have religious beliefs that forbid them to use any type of birth control and have many kids are profiled, including two mothers who follow the Quiverfull movement and a woman who left the movement after feeling overwhelmed.

Four women who have dirty jobs talk about their lives, including a dairy cow midwife, a crime-scene cleaner, a woman who works at a slaughterhouse, and a woman who works at a chimpanzee sanctuary.

This episode features a look into the lives of those fighting the practice of polygamy in the Mormon FLDS church. Women who have left polygamous marriages are interviewed, as well as law enforcement agents and government officials who are fighting polygamist cults.

In this episode, two couples with once abusive wives are profiled, as well as a man whose wife showed up at his wife and tried to murder him with a knife.

Portrait of women whose lives and self-worth have become intractably linked to cats.

In the season finale, women working at the Moonlite BunnyRanch, a legal ranch in Nevada, discuss their lives, experiences, and the competition, stigma, and dangers of working in a brothel.

Carrieranne's fiancé lives secretly as a cross-dresser; grandparents from Texas tell why they are open about their cross-dressing experiences.