She may be one of the most talked about reality turned television stars in Hollywood, but before she got her big break and became a “very, rich b***h,” NeNe Leakes was a stripper!

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The Real Housewives of Atlanta personality, who is currently starring on NBC’s The New Normal, spent three years swinging off stripper poles, and is opening up about the experience in the December 2012 issue of Ebony – and Breaking Celebrity News has the details.

Leakes, who attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta for two years, ended up working as a stripper for three years when she was a 23-year-old single mom.

“I used the name Holly and then Silk,” reveals the 44-year-old. “I thought I made pretty good money. It was a great hustle.”

Leakes, who also modeled in her younger years, explains that stripping was an efficient way to make money and pay the bills.