NENE WAS A STRIPPER!

Nene Leakes may have called her autobiography "Never Make the Same Mistake Twice," but she doesn't think her most controversial job was a mistake at all.
"Yes, I was a stripper - let the judgments ensue," the "Real Housewife of Atlanta" announces in the outrageous book. "I'm not ashamed."

The sassy Leakes adds that while she may have taken her clothes off for money back in the day, her past has no reflection on her present incarnation as an upper-crust Atlanta socialite.

"What difference does it make if I danced or not?" she asks. "Is the sun going to stop shining? Is my past taking food out of your mouth?"

While she may never admit that undressing for money wasn't the wisest career choice, she does feel the need to explain her reasons for doing so. "[I stripped] for the sake of my son, and to restore my confidence in myself," she explains. "My son was in private school, his father wasn't chipping in for ­pull-ups or food, I had no job and no money coming in, the rent was past due, and the super told me and my roommate that our condo owner was about to put us out. It was about survival."

But Nene - who called herself Silk during her dancing days as a nubile twentysomething - admits that she liked the power that came with being an exotic dancer. "I could make $500 off one guy just by turning him on," she confides in the Touchstone Books tome. These men "were obviously there to see what I had, and I quickly realized that those men weren't there to make me feel bad about myself."

The vivacious Leakes is candid about dissing one person in particular who does make her feel bad: "Housewives" cast member and former friend Kim Zolciak.

"I'm not sure if she's been clinically diagnosed," Nene snipes, "but I'm convinced that if she were to lie down on a doctor's couch, a psychiatrist could surmise within minutes that Kim is a wack job."
She adds that Kim "without question [is] the most superficial person I have ever come across in my life. If Kim doesn't have labels and nice cars and an expensive home, she will literally die ... gag me with two spoons."

Two, not one. Just in case Nene makes the same mistake twice.