Vicki Gunvalson Net Worth – $7 Million
Vicki Gunvalson is an American business owner, insurance agent and reality television star with a net worth of approximately $7 million. You know her best from her role on the hit television series The Real Housewives of Orange County. Gunvalson began appearing on this show in March 2006. It was the first of the housewives franchises to hit the air, and it’s the original real housewives television show. Vicki Gunvalson was one of the women that appeared on the first season, and has appeared in every season ever since. She’s the most experienced, the original and the ‘oldest’ housewife in the industry; she’s had this job the longest.
She’s a twice-divorced mother of two and grandmother of two. Her first husband was an abusive alcoholic, and the two had two children together. Briana and Michael, both in their 20s, have no relationship with their real father, and grew up with Gunvalson’s second husband, Donn, as their father. Vicki and Donn finalized their divorce in 2014 after nearly two decades together, with her splitting quite a bit of her impressive fortune with her ex. She then spent several years dating a southern man none of her friends or family could stand, and even suspect of faking his own cancer diagnosis. Her son works for her at Coto Insurance and Financial Services, the business she owns in Southern California. Her daughter eloped in 2011, marrying a man she was dating in Las Vegas and then going on to have two little boys with him. She lives in Oklahoma where her husband is stationed for his military job.
Vicki has had her share of ups and downs with her divorces, her lost friendships and her fights on television. However, she is known for being very successful and for always standing up for the fact that women need to stop relying on men to take care of them and start taking care of themselves. She’s known for her excessive use of the phrase “Woo Hoo!” and for always being part of the “Fun Bus” as she calls it.
Worth more than $7 million, Vicki Gunvalson is a successful woman. She earns $500,000 per season on the real housewives, and she’s also earning a lot of money from her very successful business. She owns several homes, even though some of them went to her ex-husband in their divorce. She also makes a nice chunk of change from the sales of the two books that she’s written, and from her public appearance. The primary bulk of her wealth, however, comes from her insurance and financial services job. She makes a point to work hard, long hours and she’s usually in the office. She understands the value of hard work even when she is working on having fun at the same time. She has said on several occasions that she might not return to reality television for another season, but she always comes back. A half million dollar paycheck for appearing on television and having fun with her girlfriends is always a nice incentive, of course.
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