Once a Bravolebrity, always a Bravolebrity.
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Kimberly Bryant, Orange County
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Tenure: One season, guest appearances
Tagline: "Eighty-five percent of the women around here have had breast implants."
Remember Kimberly? Probably not. She spent just one season on The Real Housewives of Orange County. After the first season's 2006 run, Kimberly moved from the O.C. to the suburbs of Chicago, fleeing the California sun after a skin cancer scare. She made a brief appearance on the show's fourth season, when O.C. O.G. Vicki Gunvalson visited Chicago.
Kimberly still lives in Chicago with her husband and two kids and uses her "Bravolebrity" status to help out Chicagoland charities. She has a Twitter account, but hasn't posted since August 2013. It's mostly #TBTs of the Season 1 cast.
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Jo De La Rosa, Orange County
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Tenure: Two seasons, spin-off
Tagline: "I deserve only the best... I'm worth it!"
The first housewife who wasn't actually a housewife, Jo De La Rosa left the show after Season 2, when she broke up with her fiancé Slade Smiley and moved to Los Angeles to pursue a singing career (yes, she was the ORIGINAL singing housewife!). The former couple reunited in 2008 for a spin-off for Bravo, the aptly titled Date My Ex.
The show wasn't a hit, and Jo gave up singing for a more practical career in marketing and advertising. After a stint in New York, Jo is back in L.A. as the national accounts director for Empire Digital. She's also been dating marketing executive Mark Lovette for more than two years. You can follow her life now on Twitter and Instagram. Just don't ask her about Slade and Gretchen.
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Lauri Waring Peterson, Orange County
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Tenure: Four seasons, guest appearances
Tagline: "I was poor, I was rich, I was poor again, and you know what? Having money is easier."
The Cinderella story of the Real Housewives world, Lauri went from broke single mom to happily married to a millionaire over her four-season run. Lauri left the show to deal with her son's personal and legal troubles, but returned in 2013 as a "friend" of the wives, which gave us an amazing Vicki Gunvalson-screaming-on-a-mountain-about-threesomes scene. Shockingly, she wasn't asked back for Season 9.
Lauri is still married to George, still lives in the O.C., is now a grandmother, and is very active on Twitter.
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