Kim Zolciak Reunites With Estranged Brother As She Turns 40 On 'Don't Be Tardy'
March 23 2019, Updated 10:14 p.m. ET
Kim Zolciak reunited with her estranged brother on Friday's episode of Don't Be Tardy after RadarOnline.com's revelation of her whopping raise for another season of her reality show!
On the March 22, 2019 episode of the current season 7, Zolciak's life was full of drama as she turned 40.
Showing the emotion that earned her another season of the Bravo show, Zolciak said her parents drove a wedge between her and brother Mike, 41.
She told the cameras, "Just because I don't talk to my parents doesn't mean I can't talk to my brother, who was my lifeline for 18 years. I hope that we can rebuild a little bit of a relationship."
But the ex-The Real Housewives of Atlanta star kept forgetting when, exactly, she last saw Mike, who chided her on the episode.
"Oh my God, 2004. Do the math!," he told Zolciak.
But Kim said, "We haven't seen each other in 20 years!"
More seriously, Mike and his wife, Jessica, met Zolciak and her former football player husband, Kroy Biermann, 33, at a restaurant for the fraught reunion.
Kroy said, "Nice to finally meet ya."
Zolciak noted on camera, "My brother and I have always had a connection. We're a year apart and thank God it's very easy to get back into it."
But she also added, "Growing up, I remember my brother being like the d***head."
As RadarOnline.com readers know, Zolciak has been estranged from both her parents and brother.
On a previous episode, she had wondered if her brother had the same health issue she did after a scare in which her blood count was low.
In reuniting with Zolciak, Mike couldn't understand the lifestyle of his sister and her daughter Brielle, who is hot on social media.
"What does she want to do in life?" Mike asked.
Later, he showed up for Zolciak's 40th birthday party and his wife noticed Brielle was "half naked."
As RadarOnline.com exclusively reported, the blonde mother of six landed a huge raise to $1.8 million for the next season of Don't Be Tardy.
That is an incredible $300,000 bump—and Zolciak needs the dough amid her financial crisis.
As RadarOnline.com reported, despite getting fired from RHOA after her racist remarks, enough fans are tuning into Kim's spin-off show that Bravo and offered her another season to share her life with hubby Kroy and their brood.
"Kim's numbers on 'Don't Be Tardy' are doing really well once the DVR numbers are accounted for," an insider told RadarOnline.com.
Now, with the raise, "She's getting her family vacation paid for again."
Another season's paycheck will be a welcome cash windfall for the Bravolebrity, who was just hit with a lawsuit from American Express, which alleges she failed to pay a $215,000 credit card bill.