I read this headline with disbelief? A popular paper in Georgia, the Sunday Paper named Kim Zolciak, one of 2008’s Person
of the Year. Maybe they meant it as a joke? Yes, she’s interesting because she’s a trainwreck, dates married men, drinks wine out of plastic cup in her car, chain smokes, sings crappy country music, etc. CLASSY!
Leakes may have emerged as the show’s breakout star (and tabloid fixture, given her recent housing troubles), but it was Kim who kept us talking—and rolling our eyes. Who could forget her tacky wardrobe change in a gas station parking lot in the first episode? Her straight-faced assertion that she was 29 years old? Her sharing a bed with her two daughters way beyond the appropriate cut-off age?
And let’s not forget her, shall we say, ambitious country-music aspirations. How bad was her singing? After appearing on the show to offer advice, super-producer Dallas Austin publicly distanced himself from Zolciak, setting the record straight that he is not working with her on an album.
The article goes on to say she’s a “must have” fixture on the second season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Yes, I agree but I would hardly call her “2008 Person of the Year,” maybe “Tackiest Person of the Year,” but Atlanta has so many interesting entertainers that live in Atlanta, I think they could have chosen someone else.


TEAM KIM, You deserve it. Run with it girl. Kim made TRHOA period.