The Real Housewives of Atlanta

Bravo usually puts on, for the most part, classy TV shows, but with their Real Housewives of (fill in the city blank) series, not so much with the classy, heavy on the trashy.

I did not watch the first Real Housewives of series, that being The Real Housewives of the OC. But I did get hooked on The Real Housewives of New York City.

The New York City Real Housewives was great train wreck TV, with one of the all time best reality show characters, that being the pair of Simon and Alex, a pair of social climbers who denied they were social climbers and yet we watched them pay $10K for a dress, another $10K for tickets to the social event of the year, like the opening of the Met, or some such thing. We watched them get out of their limo and run down the street to make it to the red carpet on time, so that they could make eye contact, as they later described it, with Jane Fonda, among others.

By the time the New York City show had run its course we'd been treated to nude photos of Alex, taken by her husband, hoping to get them in Playboy. Yes, very classy people.

Which leads us to Atlanta. Alex of New York City was a horsey faced blonde. The Real Housewives of Atlanta also has a horsey faced blonde, named Kim Zolciak. Kim is a Kept Woman. The girl friend of a supposed celebrity she refers to as Big Papa. It did not take Internet Sleuths long to uncover that Kim's "Big Papa" is an Atlanta real estate mogul named Lee Najjar. Why Kim says he is a celebrity no one knows.

We didn't have to wait til the end of the Atlanta show to see Kim naked. She has very artful portraits of herself in various stages of undress hanging around her house. This creates a very brothel-like look. Not that I've been in a brothel, but it's what I imagine one to look like.

I finally got around to watching the latest episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. In this episode we see Kim call Big Papa because she's found a pink diamond bracelet that she just has to have. For about $15K. At the time Kim is wearing, so she says, $1.5 million worth of diamonds. Kim is wearing the diamonds at a fundraiser for one of the other housewife's foundation, that being DeShawn Snow, wife of pro basketballer, Eric Snow.

DeShawn's foundation, the DeShawn Snow Foundation apparently is ineptly run. We clearly saw that on the episode I just watched. She'd hoped to raise a million bucks, instead she raised $10K. And spent $30K. Her husband seems like a saint.

All these housewife women are constantly talking about how beautiful they or the others are looking. On and on they go. What fabulous tastes they have. How others follow their fashion lead. Except for NeNe. Who happens to be the most normal of all of them. Kim and this other seriously deluded horseface one, Sheree Whitfield, go on and on about how beautiful they both are, inside and out. And how they look alike, with Sheree being the black version of Kim. Kim described it as they both have long thin faces. Viewers sat their thinking you both have long thin horsefaces.

Kim asked Sheree if she's always been beautiful. Yes was the answer. They discussed at length how their great beauty gives them such a great advantage and they wouldn't want to be without it. Kim told Sheree that she was not beautiful in grade school. But then her boobs and butt popped out and the beauty we know as Kim was born. Kim has ultra-huge boobs. To me they look like there is something seriously wrong with them.

It is very easy for the viewer to see where these women's insecurities come from and why they are so heavy-duty over-compensating. It's truly a pathetic spectacle. Great Train Wreck TV though.

That is Kim in the photo at the top, sitting next to NeNe. One of Kim's many delusions is she is going to be a country music star. Next week we get to see her have a comeuppance when a voice coach tells Kim she has no clue what she is doing.

Don't these women check out the previous versions of these Bravo shows? Some women come out looking pretty good. But if you feed the producers the material to make you look like a fool, a tool and a tramp, that's what they're gonna go with. Poor Kim is all three, a fool, a tool and a tramp.