Kim Zolciak

Kimberleigh Marie "Kim" Zolciak is an American television personality born on May 19, 1978. She is best known as an original cast member of the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Atlanta, starring in five and recurring in one of its seventeen seasons following its 2008 premiere. She also starred in her own spin-off series, Don't Be Tardy, which originally aired under the title Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding and ran for eight seasons from 2012 to 2020.

Zolciak was born in Pensacola, Florida, to a military family and raised in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, by her parents Joseph and Karen alongside her brother Michael. She is of Polish and Italian descent and was raised Roman Catholic. She attended East Catholic High School in Manchester, Connecticut, leaving after her freshman year, and went on to study nursing at the University of Connecticut. At age twenty-one, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents had relocated, eventually settling in the suburb of Johns Creek.

Her entertainment career gained public attention on October 7, 2008, when she first appeared on The Real Housewives of Atlanta at age thirty. Between the show's fourth and fifth seasons, her wedding preparations were chronicled in the spin-off series Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding. Zolciak departed The Real Housewives of Atlanta in December 2012 during its fifth season, though she later returned in a recurring role for the tenth season. The spin-off series was subsequently renamed Don't Be Tardy... and ran through 2020.

In addition to her main series, Zolciak was scheduled to co-star with NeNe Leakes in a planned Bravo reality show titled NeNe and Kim: The Road to Riches, though the network ultimately canceled the project. In 2015, Zolciak competed on season twenty-one of Dancing with the Stars paired with professional dancer Tony Dovolani. She withdrew three weeks into the competition after experiencing a transient ischemic attack, finishing in eleventh place. In 2023, she joined the cast for the eighth season of MTV's The Surreal Life, which premiered in July 2024.

Beyond television, Zolciak pursued music and business ventures. In 2008, she began work on a country music album and released her debut dance single, "Tardy for the Party," in 2009, followed by a remix EP in 2010. In March 2013, her former castmate Kandi Burruss and songwriter Rodney Richard filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against her regarding profits from the single. In business, Zolciak launched a skincare line called Kashmere Kollection in May 2016 and released a fragrance named Kashmere.

In her personal life, Zolciak has a daughter, Brielle Karenna, born in 1997 from a previous relationship. She married Daniel Toce in 2001, with whom she shares a daughter, Ariana Lenee, before divorcing in February 2003. In May 2010, she met football player Kroy Biermann, and the couple married on November 11, 2011. They have four children together: Kroy Jagger, Kash Kade, and twins Kaia Rose and Kane Ren. Biermann legally adopted her two older daughters in 2013. Biermann filed for divorce in May 2023, withdrew the petition in July 2023, and filed for divorce a second time in August 2023.