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Zolciak (left) at Carrier Annex, November 2009.
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Born |
Kimberleigh Marie Zolciak May 19, 1978 Pensacola, Florida, U.S. |
Residence | Johns Creek, Georgia, U.S. |
Other names | Kim Zolciak-Biermann |
Occupation | Television personality, singer |
Years active | 2008–present |
Home town | Windsor Locks, Connecticut |
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Children | 6 |
Website | www |
Kimberleigh "Kim" Zolciak-Biermann (born Kimberleigh Marie Zolciak; May 19, 1978) is an American television personality. In 2008, she rose to prominence as one of the original housewives that appeared on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Atlanta aired on Bravo.
Zolciak left The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2012 during the fifth season of the series. Earlier that year, she received her own spin-off show entitled Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding, which focused on the preparation of her wedding to football player Kroy Biermann. The series was subsequently renewed for a second season with a shortened title, Don't Be Tardy. The fourth season of the show premiered on August 16, 2015. In 2015, she was one of the contestants of the 21st season of the dancing competition series Dancing with the Stars.
Kim Zolciak was born in Pensacola, Florida, to a military family, and grew up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. Her parents are Joseph and Karen, and she has a brother named Michael. She is of Polish and Italian descent and was raised Roman Catholic.
In 1995, at age 16 or 17, Zolciak had an affair with a Windsor Locks police sergeant who had interviewed her as a material witness in a criminal investigation, resulting in the sergeant's firing after 24 years with the department. She graduated from East Catholic High School in Manchester, Connecticut in 1996, and studied nursing at the University of Connecticut. At 21, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents had moved, and eventually settled in the suburb of Johns Creek.