NeNe Leakes - Biography
Last Modified: Dec 3, 2020
| Nick Name: | NeNe |
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| Profession: | Actress, Reality TV star, Fashion designer |
| Best Known For: | The Real Housewives of Atlanta (reality TV show) |
| Salary: | Under Review |
| Net Worth: | $14 million |
Personal Details
| Born on : | December 13, 1967 (age 54) |
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| Birth Name / Full Name: |
Linnethia Monique Johnson |
| Birth Place: | Queens, New York, USA |
| Horoscope: | Sagittarius |
| Father's Name: | N/A |
| Mother's Name: | Patricia |
| Siblings: | 4 |
| University: | Clarke Central High School |
| Ethnicity: | African-American |
| Nationality: | American |
Relationships
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
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| Marital Status: | Married |
| Married Date: | June 22, 2013 |
| Husband's Name: | Gregg Leakes |
| Children: | 2 Bryson Rashard Bryant (son) |
Body Measurements
| Height: | 1.78 meter (5 feet 10 inch) |
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| Weight: | 67 kg (147.71 lb) |
| Hair Color: | Dark Brown |
| Eye Color: | Dark Brown |
| Shoe Size: | 9.5 US |
| Dress Size: | 10 US |
| Breast Size: | 39 inch |
| Waist Size: | 31 inch |
| Hip Size: | 41 inch |
| Bra Size: | 39 |
| Cup Size: | C |
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Who is NeNe Leakes?
NeNe Leakes is an actress, author, fashion designer, reality TV star by profession and American by nationality. She is best known for appearing in The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Glee, The New Normal, etc.
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NeNe Leakes on The Real Housewives of Atlanta (Image: eonline)
NeNe Leakes – Age, Parents, Siblings
NeNe Leakes’ birth took place on December 13, 1967, in Queens, New York, USA. She was born as Linnethia Monique Johnson and is one of five children of her parents. She and one of her brothers were sent to live with their aunt in Athens, Georgia while the remaining of her siblings were raised by their mother.
Biological father
Leakes has a strained relationship with her family. In a 2015 interview with Radar Online, she shared, “My mother didn’t raise me. My father never claimed me. I have been lied to; I have been cheated on; I have been in abusive relationship.”
Her later learned that her father figure Curtis was not her biological father and her father's close friend was her actual father. She had been born of an affair between her mother and father's close friend. Her biological father never acknowledged her.
Education, Ethnicity
For education, NeNe Leakes attended and graduated from Clarke Central High School. She went on to study at Morris Brown College for the next two years before dropping out.
Her ethnicity is African-American.
NeNe Leakes – Boyfriend, Husband, Children, Divorce
Leakes gave birth to son Bryson Rashard Bryant on December 26, 1989. The father of her child is her ex-boyfriend Calvin Bryant. The couple did not stay together and soon split.
NeNe Leakes married her longtime boyfriend Gregg Leakes in 1997. She and her husband welcomed a child together- son Brentt Ahmad Leakes on February 22, 1999. However, after 14 years of marriage the couple divorce, which was finalized on 29 September 2011.
She remarried her ex-husband Gregg Leakes on 22 June 2013 at the InterContinental Buckhead Hotel in Atlanta. They had gotten together in 2012 and had gotten engaged in January 2013.
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NeNe Leakes – Career
Early Days
Leakes’ professional life before starting her career as an actress is not well known. She began her career as an actress in early 2000 while also working as an exotic dancer named Silk.
Her first role in the mainstream movie was in the 2003 film The Fighting Temptations as a stripper. However, her scenes were deleted and she was not credited for her work. In 2004 NeNe Leakes landed a minor role in an episode of The Parkers (2004).
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Films, Series
Finally in 2003 NeNe Leakes was cast in the Bravo TV’s reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta. She has made an appearance in season 1-7 before quitting the show for the next few seasons. Leaks did return to the season 8 as a guest and returned as a cast in the season 10 of the reality TV show.
Since then NeNe Leakes has had a recurring role in Glee (2012-2015) as Roz Washington, I Dream of NeNe: The Wedding (2013), The New Normal (2012-2013) as Rocky Rhoades, and in the film Uncle Drew (2018).
Moreover, she has appearances on Fashion Police (2013-2017), Larry King Now (2016), How High 2 (2019), among many others. Leaks has also competed in The Celebrity Apprentice 4 (2011), Cupcake Wars (2016), Lip Sync Battle (2016), MasterChef Celebrity Showdown (2017), etc.
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Co-stars
NeNe Leakes’ fellow The Real Housewives of Atlanta cast includes Kandi Burruss, Porsha Williams, Kenya Moore, Cynthia Bailey, Eva Marcille.
Others
In addition, Leakes has worked in theatre- the Broadway production of Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella, among others.
She also founded a television production company NeNe Leakes Entertainment, clothing line Nene Leakes Collection and began her comedy tour So Nasty, So Rude in March 2016.
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NeNe Leakes – Net Worth, Salary
Her net worth has been estimated at around $14 million while her salary is known to be $1 million per season of the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
NeNe Leakes – Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
On social media handles including Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, NeNe Leakes is active with more than a million followers and counting. She also has a self-titled YouTube channel with around 50k subscribers.
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