| Net Worth | $5,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Porsha Dyanne Williams |
| Date of Birth/Age | June 22, 1981 (age 38) |
| Height | 5’8” |
| Source of wealth | Television Personality, Businesswoman, Actress, Model, Singer. |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| State/City of origin | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Last Updated | 2019 |
Net Worth
Porsha Williams net worth is $5 million dollars. In 2013, her net worth was $16 million, but her net worth declined significantly after she split with her NFL ex-husband Kordell Stewart.
How Much Porsha Williams Make a Year?
Porsha’s salary is $700,000 per year from “The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Porsha’s annual “Dish Nation” salary is undisclosed.
How does Porsha Williams make her money?
Porsha has built up her fortune by making appearances on various television shows. Today, Porsha makes her money by starring on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” and cohosting “Dish Nation”.
She should be receiving an extra paycheck this year for her new Bravo special called “Porsha’s Having A Baby”. This show is a spinoff from the housewives show. Only two other costars have a spinoff from the Atlanta housewives group.
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Introduction
Porsha Williams is an African American model, television personality, and actress. She gained the majority of her fame from starring on the reality television show “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” since season five in 2012 and “Dish Nation” since 2013.
Porsha recently got engaged and has started a family with fiancé Dennis McKinley. Let’s take a closer look at her biography, personal life, net worth, and career history.
Early Life
Porsha Williams full name is Porsha Dyanne Williams. She was born on June 22, 1981, in Atlanta, Georgia. She is black American and her parents are Diana T. Williams and Hosea Williams II.
Both of her parents are entrepreneurs. She has two siblings including a sister named Lauren and a brother named Hosea.
Porsha attended Southwest Dekalb High School and then went on to American InterContinental University in Schaumburg, Illinois, where she studied business information technology.
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Personal life
In May 2011 Porsha got married to NFL player Kordell Stewart. Their ceremony was aired on the WE TV show “Platinum Weddings”.
The couple started dating while Porsha was working in Atlanta, Georgia at the Luckie Lounge. The marriage only lasted for a couple of years and they got a divorce in 2013.
Porsha had become the stepmother of Kordell’s son. His mother is Tania Richardson. Even though the two did not have a child together, Porsha did suffer a miscarriage while they were together.
Porsha’s ex-husband published his own account of the couple’s marriage in a book called “Truth: The Kordell Stewart Story”.
Porsha reportedly did not receive any alimony after the split from her NFL husband. The stress from the couple’s divorce sent Porsha to the hospital.
Porsha has also mentioned that she had strong faith before the marriage and then towards the end, she realized that she hadn’t been as committed as she once was. Getting back into her religion helped her regain strength and work on herself.
In 2013 Porsha purchased her first house in Duluth for the price of $1.15 million. It is a 5,920 square foot mansion with seven bathrooms and five bedrooms.
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The home includes a massive chef’s kitchen, five fireplaces, and a library. The home also comes with a golf course, a creek, and community parks.
In 2014 Porsha was reportedly dating Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who is the Equatorial Guinea president. Other names linked with hers include LeSean McCoy and NFL player Duke Williams in 2015.
In September 2018 Porsha announced that she and Dennis McKinley were expecting their first child. In October 2018 the couple got engaged and Porsha was very excited about both announcements.
They had been dating for about a year, but they had known each other for many years. Porsha tried to keep this relationship out of the press, but she was often spotted by paparazzi.
Porsha said she was excited to be pregnant but she also was very scared. She had previously miscarried 6 years ago so she was nervous about being able to carry the baby.
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Career
Porsha started working in sales at Rooms-to-Go and the Center for Disease Control. She then opened and ran her own daycare facility for a while.
Later on, Porsha started her career first as a model, actress, and singer. She has been in various music videos. In 2005, she modeled for the Atlanta Dymes Pin-Up calendar.
Porsha gained real stardom in 2012 when she started appearing in the fifth season of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”. By the seventh season, she starred on the show as a friend of the housewives with Demetria McKinney.
In 2013 Porsha launched her own line of hair care products. She also joined the cast of costar Kandi Burruss’s musical “A Mother’s Love”.
On March 2014 Porsha dropped her single debut “Flatline” on the iTunes store. In 2015 Bravo signed her and Kim Fields on as fulltime housewives.
Porsha is also known for her appearance on “The New Celebrity Apprentice” in 2017 where she finished in eighth place.
Other shows she has appeared on include “Star”, “The Rickey Smiley Show”, and “Platinum Weddings, Sharknado 5: Global Swarming”. Today Porsha is a “Dish Nation” show co-host.
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Interesting Facts
- Porsha is active on social media across several platforms including Twitter, where she has 579K followers, Instagram, where she has 3.7 million followers, and Facebook, where she has 1 million followers.
- Bravo is giving Porsha her own show to track the end of her pregnancy journey and celebrate the birth of her new daughter Pilar Jhena. The show will be called “Porsha’s Having a Baby” and should air Sunday, April 28 at 8 pm.
- Porsha says she failed at breastfeeding her first child, but it was nice to have positive people in her corner. They reassured her that it was ok that she couldn’t do it.
- Porsha is a proud supporter of “Go Naked Hair” and “Naked Lingerie Line”. She says the hair products have perfect cuticles that you can dye without a problem, and the hair is extremely flexible.”
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Favorite Quotes from Porsha Williams
“You can’t throw a good man away over a d*** tattoo.”
“Body-shaming any mom, I think that’s wrong, but, you never know what other people are dealing with. You don’t know why they attacking you, h***, she must not like her body if she coming at somebody else.”
Tips for success from Porsha Williams
On relationship breakups:
- Ladies should keep in mind what they originally wanted out of the relationship.
Pay attention to those red flags, and if the relationship ends accept proper accountability for things you might have overlooked.
On Beauty:
- Porsha washes her face with Neutrogena and occasionally she places cortisone on her face. It works well for days that you wake up with dry skin. She applies them both, lets them sit for a couple of hours and then rinses them off. She says coconut oil works even better than the cortisone
- For Blemishes, Porsha says in the morning rub half of a lemon on the dark areas and leave it for about twenty minutes and then wipe it off.
