As “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” tried to cast lines into the Provo River this season, Meredith Marks made a joke about her inexperience as an angler.

“I don’t know anything about fish, except it’s where I get my caviar,” she said to the camera in a confessional.

The one-liner sums up Marks in a nutshell: Wry, witty, and keeping an eye on the marketing.

“If I sat there and just was, like, ‘Hey, everybody, I have caviar and you should buy it,’ … it’s not going to resonate for anyone,” Marks said in a recent phone interview. “When you have natural moments — that you put something out there because it’s who you are, and it makes sense for you as a person — then that’s another story.”

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Meredith Marks, of "Real Housewives of SLC," films a comm

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