NENE FROM REALHOUSE OF ATLANTA WAS A STRIPPER

ATL Real Housewife, Admits to Being a Stripper in the Past

Posted: August 19, 2009 by Ms. Girltalk in Reality TV
Tags: nene leakes, real housewives of ATL, stripper

Nene Leakes, from The Real Housewives of ATL

(From the NY Daily News) NeNe Leakes may have called her autobiography “Never Make the Same Mistake Twice,” but she doesn’t think her most controversial job was a mistake at all.
“Yes, I was a stripper – let the judgments ensue,” the “Real Housewife of Atlanta” announces in the outrageous book. “I’m not ashamed.”
The sassy Leakes adds that while she may have taken her clothes off for money back in the day, her past has no reflection on her present incarnation as an upper-crust Atlanta socialite.
“What difference does it make if I danced or not?” she asks. “Is the sun going to stop shining? Is my past taking food out of your mouth?”
While she may never admit that undressing for money wasn’t the wisest career choice, she does feel the need to explain her reasons for doing so. “[I stripped] for the sake of my son, and to restore my confidence in myself,” she explains. “My son was in private school, his father wasn’t chipping in for ­pull-ups or food, I had no job and no money coming in, the rent was past due, and the super told me and my roommate that our condo owner was about to put us out. It was about survival.”
But Nene – who called herself Silk during her dancing days as a nubile twentysomething – admits that she liked the power that came with being an exotic dancer. “I could make $500 off one guy just by turning him on,” she confides in the Touchstone Books tome. These men “were obviously there to see what I had, and I quickly realized that those men weren’t there to make me feel bad about myself.”
Wowww…. Can you picture Nene stripping? lol.