Kim Fields Gives Update on ‘The Real Housewives of Atlanta’

Most of us know Kim Field as Tootie from the 80s, The facts of life, or Regine Hunter from the 90s favorite, Living single. Yet his one-season stint on The Real Housewives of Atlanta was memorable for a number of reasons, particularly its refusal to stoop to reality show levels of pettiness.

Field’s breaks down the experience in a new memoir, blessed life, where she spares no detail about the experience and why she will never return.

The excerpts acquired by Radar Online begin with the TV star explaining why she initially wanted nothing to do with the Bravo series, and didn’t even know why they were interested in her.

“Besides assuring me that I wasn’t punk, they acknowledged that they were aware that the show was out of my wheelhouse,” she wrote. “They had reasons: the cast was regularly mixed and they wanted to add a lighter tone, which they saw me providing. One of the company’s top executives called the next day to express interest. They knew what I stood for, he said. They knew I wasn’t going to engage in the show’s typical confrontations. They were good with it.

Once she officially signed up, she dealt with both the positives and the disappointments.

“There were ups and downs, some fun times, times where I didn’t know where I was going, but I remained in control…and I supposed no adventure was complete without a little danger,” she wrote. “The truth is, I wasn’t going to compromise who I am and what I do, the way I ride or my safety for the sake of a storyline.”

She also found it difficult to see “some women, adult women, interacting the way they did on and for the show.”

The actress ended by describing the series as “almost real” and as having a “bizarre vibe.”