still wanted to look like NeNe, the black woman that I am but a better version. NeNe Leakes to People magazine.

To be on a reality show, you need to have a base level of vanity. So it not surprising a high percentage of the Housewives on the various franchises appear to have had work done.

Her excuse? Stress over her son Bryce problems and marital issues with Gregg. She has some cash now. Her rationale: why not take advantage and do something for herself for a change? During the entire storyline, Gregg is absent from the cameras. While she gets drugged up before surgery, she asks for him ( need to see Gregg! and it kind of sad. She has a friend Diana be a surrogate support system.

It great to see NeNe in non drama mode for a change. She comes across as vulnerable and almost sweet at least until the drugs wear off.

The other big plot line revolves around Phaedra Parks over the top baby shower. Parks hosts more than 150 people, with ballerinas and a dance with Dwight Eubanks because her husband Apollo found it too Women even get male escorts as they enter the party. are we? Chippendales? Cynthia Bailey snarks.

And we even get to see former cast member Lisa Wu Hartwell, who refused to play RHOA games and left earlier this year. Regulars will be amused that the producers felt compelled to place her name on the screen twice and not explain why she disappeared.

Kandi Burruss was also in a major snark mode: love Phaedra but the rhinestones on the eyelashes are bourghetto. Bourgeois

Kandi and Kim Zolciak talk about Kim next move in her music career. Kim is a bit clueless but thinks she might do a song based on something said by Jimmy Kimmel: ring don mean a thing. (As of this taping, she was dating Lee Najjar AKA Big Papa again!) Kandi, who did her production of for the Party for free, wants some money from Kim to do another song. She says that to the camera but does she say that to Kim? Not that we can tell. We also get to meet Kim parents for the first time and they complain how they hardly ever see her. And they encourage her to go to church. Nope. She isn changing a thing.

Sheree Whitfield is now dating fake Doctor coach Tiy E Muhammad. She pops in to his relationships seminar in Decatur, where we also get to see Carol Blackmon of Majic 107.5, too. Sheree seems quite smitten, assuming of course that this dude has money. I surprised she hasn asked for his financial statements yet.

Cynthia Bailey joins Phaedra for the annual Steeplechase event and finds Phaedra annoyingly full of herself. She also has to hold back her husband Peter when Phaedra badmouths him to his face about having five children. got to get out of this limo, Cynthia said to the cameras. man is five minutes from choking Phaedra and going to prison himself. She also likens Phaedra as black Tammy Faye Bakker. quotes:

I had plastic surgery every time I had marital problems, I be Dwight. Sheree.

is no doubt her biggest cheerleader. Go ahead and put down the pom poms. We get it! Cynthia.

ready to drink. The bitch is back! NeNe after her plastic surgery and still drugged up, to Kim.

Phaedra responded on her blog about what she said last week re: black vs. white households. She was vague though and didn respond in specifics:

I have received numerous comments about the remarks that I made on the episode that aired on Monday, October 18, 2010. I feel the need to respond to those Saints Brandin Cooks Jersey comments, because I believe my remarks were generally misunderstood and are being used to portray me as someone I am not. I am not a racist. My heart has always been open to people of all races, ethnicities, and walks of life. If that were not the case, I would not have fallen in love with and married a man who is biracial and was raised by a white woman. The reality is that we live in a society where matters of race are not discussed honestly or openly for fear of being labeled a racist. And that really needs to change if we going to move forward in any meaningful way as a melting pot of ideas, viewpoints, and experiences. While I do regret any discomfort or offense that my comments may have caused, I believe it is important that we use opportunities like this to create forums for dialogue and growth, not for personal attacks.

This is embarassing! None of these people are housewives, they all work because their husbands have nothing. Kandi is the only one that may have money dude. NeNe is brand new with her new found success and thats why her and greg are fallin out. She dont need him anymore when he too her broke a in. Its embarassing. Why do we have to go to athens to find two broke a women to represent Atlanta. Phaedra is country. The baby shower was unbearable. It was simply crazy as hell. The worst thing is the only Brothers that America see in Atlanta are gay dudes. Dwight. The other grown a ashy hairstylist wearing high heels. Man this stuff is just embarassing and having being born and raised in Atlanta, Im totally not impressed at all. I have always liked Kandi. Kim is good tv, a mess but good for tv. Nene, the ghetto, ex stripper can go somewhere and get over herself. The worst most degrading one on the show! Not sure why the Cynthia girl exist and Phakedra is also good for tv. She thinks shes more than she is. Now, honestly who ould want to watch a show with all them boring wives that someone just listed. Good tv is good tv, an RHOA is great tv!It bothers me because all of the RHOA are BROKE!!!! Try looking at the RHO Beverly Hills or New York. It Pale in comparison!! They are actually housewives and they pretty much have money fallin from the trees. RHOA, its not so and they all are sisters. The Show should be azz housewives of atlanta Sheree, Kim, Ne Ne,= money from the show. Houses are rented. Cars are rented or leased. Cynthia Arthur Lynch Jersey husband Broke! Phaedra Husband No comment, just got out of Jail. WHite people sitting back laughing at this sh. Atleast the list I named actually have money and are married. They wouldnt be boring because everybody knows that where 3 or 4 women are gathered, There will be Drama.