In the words of the esteemed founder of the Reality Television Arts and Sciences, Brian Moylan, most fights on Housewives are not really about whatever the ladies are talking about on camera, but are really about the show and the power struggles around what is going on behind the scenes, namely, compensation. When the girls locked in on Denise Richards in Beverly Hills, a big part of that was because of the seven-figure paycheck she commanded while barely filming. The Atlanta ladies turned on Kim Zolciak as soon as she got too big for her britches and thought she had secured a gravy train with her NFL husband and spinoff. The hierarchy that income presents is understood subtext for those who are savvy (or nosy enough) to make sense of the maze of blind items, shady Instagram stories, a

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