Cynthia Bailey Biography
Cynthia Bailey is a model, reality TV personality, and actress from the United States. She went to New York City at the age of 18 after being born in Alabama and signing a five-year deal with Wilhelmina Models. She has appeared in magazines and advertising campaigns, as well as on the runways of Paris and Milan.
Bailey attended the University of Alabama in Huntsville as a freshman and competed in local beauty pageants. She was Deshler High School’s first African American homecoming queen.
Cynthia Bailey Age
She is 56 years old as of 19 February 2023. She was born on 19 February 1967 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States.
Cynthia Bailey Wife – Children
Bailey, a former model and actress, married Peter Thomas in 2010 and wrote Carry-On Baggage: Our Nonstop Flight, a book about their relationship. They divorced in March 2017, after they separated in 2016. Bailey and her daughter relocated to a house named “Lake Bailey,” which she named “Lake Bailey.” In August 2018, she announced her romance with Fox Sports correspondent Mike Hill, and they married in July 2019.
Bailey received backlash on social media for not wearing masks at the wedding, and she filed for divorce from Hill in October 2022, which was finalized the following year. Bailey’s daughter Noelle and her husband’s daughter Noelle were born into a happy marriage.
Cynthia Bailey Family
Elijah, her father, worked at an auto manufacturing, and Barbara, her mother, in a sewing factory. Barbara was 18 years old when she became pregnant with Cynthia, and she had another daughter, Malorie, about a year later. Cynthia was inspired by her grandmother, Mae Frankie Ford, who worked in a sewing factory, sold hotdogs and hamburgers, cleaned houses, and volunteered to care for an elderly woman when she was growing up.
Cynthia Bailey Divorce
Bailey and Thomas wrote a book on their relationship called Carry-On Baggage: Our Nonstop Flight, which was published in 2013. They divorced in March 2017, after publicly announcing their separation in 2016. She filed for divorce from Hill in October 2022, and the divorce was formalized the following year.
Cynthia Bailey Net Worth
She earns a salary of $300 Thousand Per Season. She has an estimated net worth of $2.5 Million.
Cynthia Bailey Real Housewives of Atlanta
Bailey appeared on the reality television show The Real Housewives of Atlanta in 2010, highlighting her relationship with club owner Peter Thomas and friendship with NeNe Leakes. She was first hesitant to join the show, but eventually viewed it as a business opportunity and was contacted by Bravo. In 2011, she founded the Bailey Agency School of Fashion in Atlanta and ran a model hunt in the Southern United States in order to gain representation by a New York modeling agency. Bailey appears in three music videos from Jaheim’s 2013 album Appreciation Day: “Age Ain’t a Factor,” “Baby x3,” and “Chase Forever.” She also starred in minority Friday, a 2015 documentary series about the absence of consumer spending in minority areas.
She used a Jamaican accent in Kenya Moore’s television pilot, Life Twirls On, in 2016. She had a tiny role in Sharknado: The 4th Awakens in 2016 and guest starred on The Next:15 with former The Real Housewives of Atlanta co-star Claudia Jordan. Bailey appeared in a celebrity episode of Cupcake Wars alongside Nene Leakes.