"Love and Hip-Hop Miami" is back for its seventh season midseason run on BET, and if the first half of the season was any indication, the second half is not slowing down. BET.com sat down with cast members Amara La Negra and Zoey Brinxx to talk health, intention, and why they want viewers to look a little closer at what they think they're seeing.

For Zoey, this season gets personal in ways that have nothing to do with anyone else's business. After significant weight loss, she is navigating a body transformation on camera — including the parts that do not always feel like a glow-up.

"When I was bigger, I thought I was the shit, I'm gonna be honest with you," she said. "Confidence wasn't even in question. So now I'm learning to love this new body with the saggy skin, with my face being smaller. There's stuff I'm not used to." Viewers will see her consultation with Dr. Miami this season, along with the fuller emotional arc of what it actually feels like to adjust to a changed body — not just the before and after, but the complicated middle.

If you watched the first episode of the second half, you already know Amara's mother did not come to play. But Amara wants to set the record straight on what actually happened.

"My mom was not part of that scene," she said. "My mom was there being a mom, helping me with my daughters, being a grandmother. She was at Amarafest. She wasn't supposed to be, but she saw the chaos that was happening. She knows me, and she knows how I felt about certain people, and from far away she just saw me having an interaction with someone — and my mom forgot that this is still a TV show."

What followed was a mother pushing through cameras to get to her daughter. Amara says she did not need the intervention, but also fully understood it. "If your mother feels that you are in danger's way, no matter how old she may be, she's gonna try to get in there to defend you. I thought it was cute, her trying to defend me like I'm back in elementary school. But at the same time, it did put her health in jeopardy."

Amara's mom has ongoing health issues, and the moment landed hard. "No drama is worth my peace, my mother's peace, my mother's health," she said. "It definitely showed me that I have to control myself better, or not have her around certain environments where she feels that she has to step in on my behalf."

Both women had the same note for the audience: slow down and think about intention.

"I feel like sometimes our intentions could come off the wrong way because it's edited," Zoey said. "It's reality TV, so they don't get to really see the breakdown of certain conversations. Someone can turn up, but you don't know how much they took before they got to the end. The intentions are what the audience can sometimes misconstrue."

Amara echoed that and added a broader point about the format itself. "You have to understand that it's several different lives coming together in one hour, and it's not just about us," she said. "There are a lot of things that people may miss and only get to see bits and pieces."

She also addressed the recurring rumors head-on: the show is not ending. "I know there were a lot of misconceptions or comments about the show ending," Amara said. "No one has said that yet. I just wish that people continue to watch the show and continue to grow with us."

"Love and Hip-Hop Miami" Season 7 airs on BET.