Phaedra Parks Biography
Phaedra Parks is a television personality, attorney, mortician, businesswoman, author, and actress from the United States. Parks is best known for her appearance on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, the Atlanta installment of Bravo’s The Real Housewives franchise (RHOA). She appeared on RHOA from the third to the ninth season.
How old is Phaedra Parks? – Age
She is 49 years old as of 26 October 2022. She was born in 1973 in Athens, Georgia, United States.
Phaedra Parks Family
Parks was born to Regina Bell and Pastor Henry Parks. She has three siblings; Keosha Bell, Henri Jacques Parks, and Albert Bell. Parks and she went to the same high school. Regina Bell and Henry Parks, her pastor parents, have four children. Prior to pursuing a Juris Doctorate at the University of Georgia, she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors from the London School of Economics (LSE) and Wesleyan College.
Phaedra Parks Husband – Children
Parks was married to Apollo Nida from 2009 to 2017. Parks has maintained that she had no knowledge of Nida’s criminal activity despite his conviction for conspiracy to commit mail, wire, and bank fraud. She has two children with Nida: Ayden, born in 2010, and Dylan, born in 2013. She dated Medina Islam before splitting up with him in 2021.
Phaedra Parks Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $6 Million.
Phaedra Parks Law Firm
She was named ‘Attorney of the Year’ in 2006, and she has served on the Georgia Law School Alumni Council, the Grammy Recording Board, the UGA Law School Board, and G-Capp. She has appeared as a legal analyst on Fox News and NBC during the Michael Jackson trial. Parks has also worked as a television producer for The Tiny and Toya Show on BET.
Phaedra Parks The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Her appearance on The Real Housewives of Atlanta aided her nomination as one of Atlanta’s top 100 Black women of influence, as her season 3 debut garnered a lot of attention and positive attention for Parks. Parks’ seven-season run on the show saw her involved in a number of major plotlines, including the dissolution of her marriage to Apollo Nida and pregnancies that resulted in sons Ayden and Dylan.
Parks announced her intention to become a mortician in a 2011 episode of RHOA. Parks has fired ahead of the show’s tenth season after spreading a damaging rumor about fellow RHOA cast member Kandi Burruss and her husband, Todd Tucker. Following her departure from RHOA, Bravo tentatively announced Rich People’s Problems, a new unscripted series focusing solely on Parks. The show was never made available to the public.
Phaedra Parks Career
Parks made her debut on The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2010. She was already a well-known attorney with her own firm, The Parks Group. Throughout her career, she has represented a number of public figures, including Bobby Brown.
Secrets of the Southern Belle: How to Be Nice, Work Hard, Look Pretty, Have Fun, and Never Have an Off Moment was Parks’ first book, released in 2013. Parks and her then-boyfriend, Medina Islam, made an appearance on the season two premiere of Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition in 2020. In October 2021, she made her acting debut in Covenant, an eight-episode anthology series on Allblk. Bernice Whitfield, the family matriarch, was played by her.
Parks was announced to appear in the second season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a’mash-up’ series produced by Peacock featuring multiple well-known housewives from the franchise, in 2021.
Parks appears in The Real Housewives of Dubai’s first season as a friend of housewife Caroline Brooks in 2022, in addition to her RHUGT main cast appearance. Parks filmed for Season 14 of RHOA at her fashion show, according to Shereé Whitfield, but the scenes with Parks were never aired. Rumors about Parks’ full-time return to RHOA have begun to circulate after executive producer Andy Cohen stated that he would love to have her back following her firing in 2017. Her appearances on RHUGT, RHOA, and RHODXB are said to be to see if her Bravo comeback appeals to audiences. Kandi Burruss has stated that if Parks returns, she will leave RHOA.