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Kim Zolciak Makes Major Public Change Amid Divorce
"I asked, I believed, I received."
Who knew erstwhile Kim Zolciak uttered that tagline successful play 5 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta that she would beryllium talking about requesting a divorcement from Kroy Biermann? The Don't Be Tardy prima and her NFL subordinate hubby shocked the Bravo satellite erstwhile they broke up aft 11 years of marriage. Kim and Kroy—who stock Kroy Biermann Jr., 11, Kash Biermann, 10, and 9-year-old twins Kaia Biermann and Kane Biermann, successful summation to Kim's 2 oldest daughters Brielle Biermann, 26, and Ariana Biermann, 21—both filed for divorcement successful May. And portion a proceeding connected their lawsuit isn't scheduled until July, that hasn't stopped the Don't Be Tardy prima from teasing their storyline—posting cryptic messages connected societal media astir relationships and stepping retired sans wedding ring.
So, yeah, Kim and Kroy's divorcement play has been messy, Kim's pal Shereé Whitfield revealing her erstwhile co-star isn't feeling peachy-keen post-breakup.
"She's not doing well," the RHOA prima told Andy Cohen connected Watch What Happens Live June 11. "No, she's taking it truly bad."
Viewers are beauteous thrown arsenic well, having watched the pair's love communicative play retired connected Bravo.
Kim and Kroy archetypal met at a Dancing With the Stars-themed foundation lawsuit during play 3 of The Real Housewives of Atlanta and the pair got joined 1 twelvemonth aboriginal successful November 2011. They went connected to onshore their ain spinoff series, Don't Be Tardy, which ended its eight-season tally successful 2020.
The duo adjacent opened up their playbook to E! News past November arsenic they marked 11 years of marriage. "If you're asking for a secret, tons of sex," Kim joked to E! "I deliberation 1 of the biggest secrets is besides communication. Choosing to emotion that idiosyncratic time successful and time out, I deliberation it's a prime and a batch of times radical are conscionable truthful speedy to propulsion successful the towel."
Now that they've tossed successful their own, we're each sitting backmost and continuing to watch what happens:
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The ringing nary longer meant a happening to Kim Zolciak when she filed for divorce from Kroy Biermann after 11 years of matrimony connected May 8.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, the couple's day of separation was listed arsenic April 30, with The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum saying their matrimony is "irretrievably breached with nary anticipation of reconciliation."
Kim—who shares Kroy Jr., 11, Kash, 10, and 9-year-old twins Kane and Kaia with the erstwhile NFL player, and is besides ma to Brielle, 25, and Ariana, 21—also requested superior carnal custody of the kids and associated ineligible custody, per the docs.
One time aft Kim's filing, Kroy made his ain custody play erstwhile he also submitted a request for sole ineligible and carnal custody of their 4 children.
Per ineligible documents obtained by E! News, Kim was served a summons requiring her and Kroy to implicit a home intake worksheet that monitors the attraction of their kids implicit 30 days.
While some stars were inactive residing successful their Georgia location erstwhile they announced their divorce, Kroy asked successful his filing to beryllium "awarded exclusive, impermanent and imperishable usage and possession" of the spot arsenic good arsenic immoderate others helium purchased portion they were married.
On May 16, the Don't Be Tardy prima filed a question requesting her ex acquisition cause testing. In documents obtained by E! News, Kim alleged she has seen Kroy "smoking marijuana, and she has superior concerns for the information and well-being" of their kids. Per the docs, Kim requested a five-panel hairsbreadth follicle cause surface truthful that the tribunal tin find custody arrangements for the children. She besides asks that Kroy not chopped his hairsbreadth earlier the screening.
Kroy has yet to respond to her request. E! News has reached retired to his lawyer for remark and has not heard back.
On the aforesaid time she filed her request, Kim shared a cryptic message about relationships connected societal media.
"The highest signifier of emotion is consideration," a punctuation shared to her Instagram Stories read. "When idiosyncratic thinks astir however things would marque you feel. Pays attraction to detail. Holds you successful respect erstwhile making decisions that could impact you. In immoderate bond, however overmuch they attraction astir you tin beryllium recovered successful however overmuch they see you." She past added the 100 emoji.
Kim took to Instagram to share different arcane connection astir relationships connected May 24.
A punctuation reshared to Kim's Instagram stories read, "Manipulation is erstwhile they blasted you for your absorption to their toxic behavior, but ne'er sermon their disrespect that triggered you." Below the punctuation successful each caps Kim wrote, "Read that again..."
The couple's contentious divided has not lone taken their fans by surprise, but besides Kim and Kroy's erstwhile brag Andy Cohen.
"I was precise surprised," the Watch What Happens Live big admitted connected SiriusXM's Andy Cohen Live May 9. "That was not the quality I ever expected to get. They seemed truthful overmuch successful emotion and conscionable together. I mean, they were a mates that, yeah, I thought they were successful it for the agelong haul."
Amid the divorcement drama, Kim's eldest daughters Brielle and Ariana—who Kroy legally adopted aft marrying the Bravolebrity—penned messages to their mom for her 53rd birthday.
"You are the strongest pistillate I know!!!" Ariana wrote alongside an Instagram Stories drawback of her and her ma astatine the formation connected May 19. "Thank you for each you do! I americium truthful arrogant of you mom! cheers to 53."
As for Brielle, she shared a photograph of herself alongside her ma drinking vino to her Instagram Stories, writing, "Happy day mom! I emotion you truthful much!"
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Weeks aft filing for divorce, Kim made things Instagram authoritative by dropping her joined sanction from her societal media platforms.
Kim debuted her caller grip portion teasing her instrumentality to RHOA. Alongside a photograph of her posing with chap bid originals Lisa Wu, DeShawn Snow and Sherée Whitfield, Kim wrote successful the June 8 post, "See you soon."
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