Kim of the Real Housewives of Atlanta is Destroyed on the Reunion Show

The BravoTV machine has been cranking out money-made celebrities with their drama-filled, addictive series "The Real Housewives." Kim Zolciak, the Barbie blonde, chain-smoking star of the Atlanta version provided the flaw addled keystone on which the entertaining, trash-talking reunion showed relied on. It was no surprise. Zolciak is an easy target with her larger than life plasticized shiny weave, her aspirations of becoming a country music star with vocal chords that burn from twenty cigarettes a day, and the mystery behind her benefactor, a supposedly married man.
In response to the attacks made on her hair, she pointed to a past illness she linked with cancer, but later admitted that it was not actually cancer. She did not, however, explain why a hair piece that screams fake would be a attractive alternative to a more modest hairpiece. Viewers reveled in the embarrassing scenes where Kim in the studio with producer Dallas Austin heard her husky cigarette cracked voice in her ear clear as a bell. And she was stunned that she could not carry a tune. Stunned but not completely discouraged. Her relationship with "Big Papa," the enigmatic man-friend who sponsors Kim's Dior and diamond addictions doesn't do much to improve her reputation. When Nene Leakes, the most unashamedly outspoken housewife, spat that Zolciak was a hooker, it rang out all too true. By the end of the show, although fully amused, I wondered how someone like Zolciak will manage to recover from a nation-wide verbal throttling as many viewers comments/insults were included.

But Season Two is in the works and Zociak made it a point to mention that her single is due out January 2009 and her album shortly after. Anyone who heard Kim in the studio knows that she must have endured thirty hours of voice coaching a week to make it work. What's more probable is that her producer did some million dollar magic to turn the pitch-less sliver of a voice into a full-fledged instrument to be showcased in an album. Assuredly more embarrassments, disappointments, and ugly scenes are on the way. I, for one, will be there enjoy it.