Kim Zolciak Biography

Kimberleigh Marie "Kim" Zolciak Biermann (born May 19, 1978) is an American television personality and singer. In 2008, she rose to prominence as one of the original housewives on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, a Bravo reality television series. Zolciak left the series during the fifth season; her final appearance aired on December 2, 2012. Earlier that year, she received her own spin-off series Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding, which focused on the preparation of her wedding to Kroy Biermann; it was later renamed Don't Be Tardy...

Early life

Kim Zolciak was born in Pensacola, Florida, to a military family, and grew up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. At 17, Zolciak had an affair with a 49-year-old Windsor Locks police sergeant who had interviewed her as a material witness in a criminal investigation, resulting in a 45-day suspension of the sergeant, who retired two years later. She graduated from East Catholic High School in Manchester, Connecticut, in 1996, and studied nursing at the University of Connecticut. At 26, she moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where her parents had moved, and eventually settled in the suburb of Johns Creek.

Career

Zolciak first appeared on the reality television series The Real Housewives of Atlanta, airing on Bravo, on October 7, 2008. She began work on a new project, a country music album. Zolciak released a debut single, the dance track "Tardy for the Party," in 2009, and in 2010, a remix EP. Between Season 4 and Season 5, Zolciak and her then fiancé were the subject of a spin-off show titled Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding, chronicling Zolciak's wedding preparations. Zolciak left Real Housewives in the middle of the fifth season, with her final episode airing December 9, 2012.

Personal life

Zolciak has two daughters, Brielle (born February 25, 1997) and Ariana (born October 17, 2001). Zolciak was married to Dan Toce from 1997 to 2003. Toce was arrested in 2010 and pled guilty to one count of felony sex abuse against a mi­nor, a 15-year-old female, and sentenced to 2 1/2 years at the MacDougall-Walker Correctional In­stitution in Suffield, Connecticut.

Zolciak said in March 2010 that she is bisexual and that she and DJ Tracy Young were in a romantic relationship.

In May 2010, Zolciak met Atlanta Falcons American football player Kroy Biermann at the charity event Dancing with Atlanta Stars. Their meeting was later shown on season three of The Real Housewives of Atlanta. They have two sons: Kroy Jagger Biermann, Jr. (born May 30, 2011) and Kash Kade Biermann (born August 15, 2012). The couple wed at their rented Roswell, Georgia home on November 11, 2011. It was reported on June 5, 2013 that she is pregnant with her fifth child, which she confirmed on the June 25, 2013, season-two finale of Don't Be Tardy.... It was then announced on August 19, 2013, that the couple is expecting a set of twins; which is the couples' third and fourth child together and Zolciak's fifth and sixth.

Zolciak tweeted she is a vegetarian.

"Tardy for the Party" lawsuit

On March 12, 2013, Zolciak's Real Housewives of Atlanta castmate, Kandi Burruss, and her collaborating songwriter/producer, Rodney "Don Vito" Richard, filed suit against Zolciak for profits earned from the sale of the 2009 single, "Tardy for the Party". In the documents filed, Burruss' attorney - another RHOA castmate Phaedra Parks - alleges that her clients wrote the song for Zolciak and that Zolciak released and sold the single "without [the] plaintiffs' authorization, license or consent." Burruss is also seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent future sales of the song and the "destruction of all copies of the infringing single and any other product of defendant's that infringe plaintiffs' copyrights", punitive damages, attorney's fees, and a jury trial.

Discography

Singles

Year	Single	Album
2009	"Tardy for the Party"	TBD
2011	"Google Me"
2012	"Love Me First"