‘Broke as a joke’ Kim Zolciak dragged for posting daughter Brielle Biermann’s fake sonogram for clicks
Kim Zolciak is getting ripped apart for posting her daughter Brielle Biermann’s fake sonogram and pregnancy announcement as clickbait.
The financially unstable “Real Housewives of Atlanta” alum took to Instagram Tuesday to share a black-and-white image of a well-developed fetus with the name “Biermann, Brielle” written in the top left corner.
“I’M SO EXCITED TO BE A GRANDMA! 🤰 #LinkInBio,” Zolciak captioned the misleading upload before going out of her way to disable the comments section.
The hyperlink leads to a Celebuzz article from July that quotes Biermann, 26, as saying, “I’m not pregnant now but look forward to having kids one day and making my mom a grandma then. She’ll be the best.”
The influencer explained last October that her mother was desperate for a grandchild.
It appears that Zolciak, 45, gets money for every click the ad-littered story gets — and social media users are dragging her for it.
“Broke broke as a joke joke. Get that spending under control,” one of many upset Instagram commenters remarked.
Others wrote things like, “Kim DESPERATE for money honey” and “Whatever makes the news gets them paid at this point they will do anything to stay in the headlines!”
Someone else added, “I reported the post as false information! She can’t keep doing this and making money off social with lies!!”
Swarms of netizens were appalled that the ex-Bravolebrity would stoop so “low” as to make light of the topic of fertility since millions of people all over the world struggle to have kids.
“This actually makes me angry. As someone who went through multiple rounds of IVF to conceive a child, this is just not cool and low on so many different levels,” one woman wrote, as another echoed, “No. Literally WTF. They have time for fake sonograms when there are women praying for one.”
Other statements included, “This is pretty low,” “This is beyond gross and so tactless,” “Kim is wildly inappropriate for that post,” “Psychotic, desperate behavior” and “Sick sick sick.”
The mother-daughter duo did not immediately respond to Page Six’s requests for comment.
Zolciak — who shares Brielle, Ariana, 22, Kroy “KJ,” 12, Kash, 11, Kaia, 10, and Kane, 10, with her estranged husband, Kroy Biermann — has been hawking the family’s designer goods amid their mounting economic woes.
“Do you not have money and have to sell your clothes/shoes?” an inquiring fan asked the former reality star earlier this month, prompting her to respond via her Instagram Story, “I have a ton of stuff I bought over the years so selling what I don’t want. That’s all ❤️.”
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The “Don’t Be Tardy” alums have faced foreclosure on their Georgia mansion twice but were recently able to come to an agreement to avoid losing their home.
They have since listed the property for $6 million, and once it sells, they’ll be able to use the money to pay off some of their rising debts.
In both his divorce petitions from earlier this year, Kroy, 38, claimed Zolciak’s alleged “reckless spending habits and love for online gambling” had “financially devastated” their family.
Within the past few months, BMW Financial Services filed a lawsuit against the retired NFL star, claiming he stopped making payments on his $400,000 Rolls-Royce, before Saks/Capital One sued Zolciak for more than $150,000 in unpaid credit card fees.
Just last month, a judge ordered the on-again, off-again couple to pay Simmons Bank over $230,000 after they defaulted on a home equity line of credit.
