Breakout Reality TV Stars
Now we're watching them more than once a week!
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Nene Leakes - Far from her days as a newbie to reality TV, Miss Leakes has gone on to perform on Broadway in the recent adaptation of Cinderella. (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images For Fashion For Relief)
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Nicole Scherzinger - Nicole Scherzinger left her Eden's Crush (the girl group created from the reality show Popstars) days behind. Since then she's won Billboard Music Awards, been nominated for Grammys and even had stints on botht he American and UK version of competition show X Factor. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)
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K. Michelle - We lived for her outspoken personality on the Love & Hip Hop franchise, but we live even more for her real and raw songs like: "Can't Raise a Man" and "Love 'Em All." (Photo: Tristan Fewings/Getty Images)
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Kim Zolciak-Briermann - After paying her dues on Bravo's Houswives franchise, recording a successful party anthem in the process, she moved on up to getting married and making money. (Photo: TNYF/WENN.com)
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Elite Noel - Probably the most green of all the reality stars on this list Elite Noel got her start writing songs for other artists, then decided that she was ready to be about that solo artist life! She currently working on new music to share her gift and talent both behind the pen and the vocal booth with the world. (Photo: Elite Noel via Instagram)
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