9. NeNe Leakes (Net Worth: $12 Million)

Nene Leakes is widely known as cast member of Bravo’s reality series The Real Housewives of Atlanta, which she earns more cash ($1 million per season) than any other Housewife on the show. Before her fame in reality TV, she once tried acting with no success. In 2011 she appeared on Celebrity Apprentice and on the eighteenth season of Dancing with the Stars. She also appeared as Roz Washington on the hit show Glee and Rocky Rhodes in The New Normal.

She met the love of her life Gregg Leakes a real estate investor and a business consultant while she was working as a stripper. The couples put an end to their marriage in 2011 and remarried in 2013.