Ariana Biermann claims mom Kim Zolciak would buy her pricey Christmas presents — using Biermann’s own money.
“Every Chanel bag I have, I have never bought one on my own,” Biermann, whose adoptive father is Kroy Biermann, told her “Next Gen NYC” co-star Gia Giudice on the latter’s “Casual Chaos” podcast Monday.
“My mom has got them for me for Christmas with, apparently, my money. But I just didn’t know, so I guess I did buy one, I just was unaware of it.”
Ariana, 23, said the public generally believes she and her sister Brielle Biermann, 28, contributed to their parents’ financial struggles by “spending like crazy.”
“I’m like, ‘No, not quite. I was shopping at Shein,’” Ariana insisted, adding that she’s not a big spender.
“You can make anything great! The outfit I wore to the premiere [of ‘Next Gen NYC’] was $200 all around — the skirt and the corset and the scarf. With $800 shoes, but I love a shoe,” she admitted.
Ariana said she’s “so tired of the narrative” that it’s her duty to pay Zolciak and Kroy’s “bills,” as she told Giudice that she has and does.
When Giudice, 24, noted that Ariana “did talk about that” on the first episode of their new Bravo series, the latter confessed that she goes “more in depth as the show goes [on],” which makes her “nervous.”
“I do like how everything is being portrayed, I guess. And, like, this is not something that I’m angry about. This is not something that I hold resentment in my heart about. I’m just not that kind of person,” she shared.
According to Ariana, fighting over money is “so stupid” because “God has blessed” her, and she can “always make more” of it and “figure out a way no matter what.”
Given that she’s “watched” money ruin relationships, she’s “not going to let that happen.”
Although some “situations are annoying,” Ariana is determined to keep her family as united as possible.
On last week’s debut of “Next Gen NYC,” Ariana claimed that Zolciak, who once starred on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” and Kroy, who previously played for the NFL, “took” all the money she had made from reality TV (“RHOA” and her family’s show, “Don’t Be Tardy”) as well as brand deals.
Ariana couldn’t say “exactly” what her parents spent her money on, but she “found out that it was gone two years ago.”
“I don’t even know how much money I made over the time period,” she lamented. “Nobody was honest, there was no transparency and I have no idea where it actually went.”
Ariana also disclosed that her parents’ financial hardships have put a strain on her relationship with her boyfriend, Hudson McLeroy — whose dad co-founded Zaxby’s — especially when Zolciak calls to ask for money.
“Sometimes I don’t tell Hudson when she’s asking me for something because she’s going through this crazy divorce and living with four kids,” Ariana said. (Zolciak and Biermann are also parents to sons KJ, 14, and Kash, 12, as well as twins Kaia and Kane, 11.)
Shortly after Zolciak and Kroy filed to end their marriage in August 2023, the former Atlanta Falcons player alleged that the ex-Bravolebrity had a gambling addiction that “financially devastated” their family.
Kroy also claimed Zolciak spent over $600,000 on luxury goods between 2016 and 2023.
In February, the estranged couple finally sold their Georgia mansion — for $3 million less than their original asking price — after the home spent a year and a half on the market and faced foreclosure.
Reps for Zolciak and Kory have not yet responded to Page Six’s requests for comment.
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