Kandi Burruss On Surviving Quarantine And That ‘Real Housewives’ Reunion

From handling her own glam to an uptick in sex toy sales, the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’ star shares her work-at-home secrets

Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kandi Burruss had a lot planned for May 2020. Not only was Mother’s Day weekend supposed to be epic, but Burruss intended to celebrate her daughter’s high school graduation, the RHOA reunion taping was destined to be a hot, wonderful mess, and Xscape was planning a few nostalgia performances.

Enter the pandemic.

Riley’s graduation ceremony is postponed until (hopefully) July, RHOA went virtual with its taping, and Burruss had to do her own hair and makeup for the May 10 show. The business owner and mom of three found herself substitute teaching her four-year-old in addition, subtraction, and Chinese while, like all the other parents suddenly home with their broods, preparing what felt like eleventy-hundred meals a day.

“For the reunion show, I did my own hair and makeup… I’m not saying a glam squad couldn’t have done a better job. But what I am saying is I pulled it off.”

“I’ve learned a lot,” Burruss says. “First of all, I learned that I had gotten used to paying for things to get done that I really could be doing myself. Obviously, I tape [the show] throughout the year and need glam, but I was paying somebody to do my makeup damn near every day! For the reunion show, I did my own hair and makeup. Mind you it coulda been a little better — I’m not saying a glam squad couldn’t have done a better job. But what I am saying is I pulled it off.”

Burruss echoes what moms across the United States are saying about life under quarantine. They are making it work, making it happen, and pulling it off. Yes, Burruss’ littlest co-workers pop onto a Zoom every now and then. And when her nails started to grow out, she had to figure out how to do her own fill in, top, or removal — take your pick of options — and get on Amazon to order what she needed. She also took out her own microlinks and still never skipped a beat with her businesses that range…