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"Kristen Taekman will (very!) soon make her Real Housewives debut! The 36-year-old model joins the sixth season of The Real Housewives of New York City, which premieres Tuesday, March 11.\r\nAccording to he biography on Bravo&amp;apos;s website, Taekman is married to EBOOST co-founder Josh Taekman, and mom to son Cash, 5, and daughter Kingsley, 2. She also has her own line of greeting card boxes called 2nd Street Press.\r\n\r\nDuring a March 4 press conference, however, Taekman -- who joins veteran ladies Ramona Singer, Sonja Morgan, Carole Radziwill, Heather Thomson, Aviva Drescher, and Luann de Lesseps -- shared even more about what fans can expect to see from her on the Bravo reality show. Check out five things you may not know about RHONYC&amp;apos;s newest housewife below.\r\n\r\n1. RHOBH&amp;apos;s Brandi Glanville and RHONYC&amp;apos;s Heather Thomson recommended her for the show. &amp;quot;Once I realized that she and [Josh] were interested in doing the show -- which I did find out funny enough through [Brandi], kind of, and [Kristen] actually at the very same time,&amp;quot; costar Thomson explained, &amp;quot;I was so excited because I knew how great of an addition [Kristen] would be.&amp;quot;\r\n2. Taekman has already sparked some controversy. Her opening tagline -- &amp;quot;I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I&amp;apos;m pretty!&amp;quot; -- hasn&amp;apos;t been well-received. &amp;quot;I just can&amp;apos;t believe that people are having an issue with it. It&amp;apos;s like it&amp;apos;s the funniest thing ever,&amp;quot; Taekman said. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m 36 and I&amp;apos;m still a model, and I kind of like play off of the fact that, you know, not all models are the sharpest tool in the shed.&amp;quot;\r\n3. She&amp;apos;s not above arguing with her hubby -- in fact, it&amp;apos;s flirty! &amp;quot;We fight, we bicker. We have a two and a five-year-old, so we&amp;apos;re still changing diapers and my daughter still gets up some nights. That just really weighs heavy on us as a couple,&amp;quot; Taekman explained. &amp;quot;And then towards the end of the season, I decided that our bickering is our personal form of flirting. So I&amp;apos;m going to stick with that.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n4. Brandi Glanville was a bridesmaid in her wedding . . . and vice versa. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re really, really close friends,&amp;quot; Taekman shared about the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills stars. &amp;quot;She was one of my bridesmaids in my wedding. And I was at her wedding. People [have] to cut [Brandi] some slack.&amp;quot;\r\n5. She doesn&amp;apos;t consider herself the &amp;quot;Brandi&amp;quot; of RHONYC. &amp;quot;I definitely swear, but not as much as she does,&amp;quot; Taekman said of Glanville. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m a lot like her. I think that we could almost be sisters, but kind of like from a different mother kind of thing.&amp;quot;\r\nTune in to the Real Housewives of New York City Season 6 premiere on Tuesday, March 11 and tell Us what you think of Taekman!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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