1. Cynthia Denise Bailey was born on February 19,1967 and is an American model, reality television personality, podcaster and actress.
44 Facts About Cynthia Bailey
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Cynthia Bailey worked as a runway model in Paris and Milan.
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Cynthia Bailey joined the Bravo reality television show The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2010.
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Cynthia Bailey married Peter Thomas in 2010, and their divorce was finalized in 2017.
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Cynthia Denise Bailey was born on February 19,1967, in Decatur, Alabama, and raised in Tuscumbia.
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Barbara was 18 when she was pregnant with Cynthia Bailey, and had another daughter, Malorie, roughly a year later.
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Cynthia Bailey described Ford as "the first female black entrepreneur in [her] life".
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Cynthia Bailey enrolled in freshman-level courses at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, and competed in local beauty pageants.
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Cynthia Bailey was the first African American homecoming queen at Deshler High School.
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Cynthia Bailey raised the money for the move through part-time work at a mall.
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Cynthia Bailey appeared in a 1990 episode of the sitcom The Cosby Show.
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Cynthia Bailey played a masseuse in a 1995 episode of New York Undercover.
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Cynthia Bailey's favorite modeling job was a Vanity Cover shot by Annie Leibovitz and featuring Iman, Beverly Johnson, Naomi Campbell, and Tyra Banks; Iman had invited Cynthia Bailey to participate in the shoot.
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In 2010, Cynthia Bailey joined the Bravo reality television show The Real Housewives of Atlanta, which featured her relationship with club owner Peter Thomas and her friendship with NeNe Leakes.
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Cynthia Bailey was introduced in the show's third season along with Phaedra Parks.
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Cynthia Bailey was initially uncertain about joining the show, describing it as "too dramatic", but changed her mind after viewing it as a business opportunity.
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Cynthia Bailey was contacted by Bravo shortly after moving to Atlanta with Thomas; the network said that they "wanted to bring more class to the cast, and feature more women that already had successful careers before the show".
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In 2011, Cynthia Bailey opened her modeling school, Cynthia Bailey Agency School of Fashion in Atlanta; the following year, she held a model search in several cites in the Southern United States as part of a contest to win representation by a New York modeling agency.
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Cynthia Bailey appeared in a trilogy of music videos for Jaheim's 2013 album Appreciation Day.
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Cynthia Bailey appeared in the 2015 documentary series Black Friday, which is about how little consumer spending is retained within black communities.
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Cynthia Bailey was featured on a celebrity edition of Cupcake Wars with Nene Leakes.
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Cynthia Bailey was a guest judge for the preliminary and finals competition of the 65th Miss Universe competition.
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In 2018, Cynthia Bailey signed a contract with the New York-based agency Major Models; her daughter is signed with the company.
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In 2019, Cynthia Bailey guest starred in an episode of Last Call, and acted in How High 2, the sequel to the 2001 film How High.
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Cynthia Bailey started a line of bags, named CB VIOR, as well as a line of candles, leather goods, and eyewear.
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The incident was discussed during the season's reunion episodes, and Leakes and Cynthia Bailey publicly ended their friendship.
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Cynthia Bailey chose to leave The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2021, after being a part of the series for eleven seasons.
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Cynthia Bailey starred in the first season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a spin-off featuring various women from The Real Housewives franchise, which premiered on Peacock in 2021.
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Cynthia Bailey had a recurring role in the second season of Games People Play as documentarian Ndasia.
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In 2022, Cynthia Bailey competed as a HouseGuest the third season of Celebrity Big Brother, placing third in the competition.
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In 2024, it was announced that Cynthia Bailey would be returning to The Real Housewives of Atlanta in a "friend of" capacity for its sixteenth season.
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Cynthia Bailey dated Jayson Williams in 1996, and he proposed to her during a New Jersey Nets halftime show.
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Cynthia Bailey rejected the proposal and returned the engagement ring to him.
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Cynthia Bailey turned down a marriage proposal from Russell Simmons.
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Cynthia Bailey had a romantic relationship with Leon Robinson, and on November 9,1999, she gave birth to their daughter, Noelle.
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Cynthia Bailey partnered with USA Fibroids Centers to raise awareness about fibroids and treatment options.
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Cynthia Bailey married Peter Thomas on July 24,2010, at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History; the wedding was shown on a season three episode of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
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Cynthia Bailey moved with her daughter to a house that she calls "Lake Cynthia Bailey".
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Cynthia Bailey initially wanted an apartment, saying that she wanted "the New York City sort of lifestyle", but producers from The Real Housewives of Atlanta convinced her to purchase a house instead.
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Cynthia Bailey publicly announced her relationship with Fox Sports correspondent Mike Hill in August 2018.
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Hill and Cynthia Bailey became engaged in July 2019, and were married on October 10,2020.
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Cynthia Bailey said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, strict rules were implemented for the wedding, such as mandatory social distancing and face masks or face shields, to protect the 250 guests and a deep cleaning of the Acworth, Georgia venue.
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However, Cynthia Bailey received criticism on social media following the release of pictures and videos that showed guests not wearing masks.
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Cynthia Bailey announced in October 2022 that she filed for divorce from Hill, which was finalized the same year.