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You guys, we are so excited.

We are here with one of the stars of NextGen, NYC, co-founder of Adored Angels, daughter of Kim Zulciak, and overall wonderful human being, Ariana Berman.

Hello. Hi. Thank you guys so much for having me. We are so excited. I'm so excited. Like next level excited. Like seriously, you don't

even actually understand the death. Thank you guys for having me. Seriously. We've been watching you for

forever, it feels like. I know. People still think I'm 12 because they're like,

wait, I'm so confused. When did you grow up and become like a woman? And the star of your own show.

Like, how does that feel? It's crazy. I feel like it's really a full circle moment. Just like my mom started

Real Housewives when she was 27, I think, or like 29, something like that. And it's crazy to be on the same network doing a similar

thing, you know, a little bit different for our generation, I feel like, but it's honestly

such a blessing. And I feel like it's so amazing to just be able to make my own path and do my

own thing outside of my mom. Yeah, I have to be honest with you, I feel like every time a new

show comes on, we're a little bit skeptical, like, whether it was the Valley or next gen, just because we're such diehard Housewives fans that I think

it always takes a second to warm up. And we watched the first episode and we're like, wait, we

really are into this. Like, see, when people tell me that, me and Hudson are like, wait, really?

Because you were so nervous going into it. We were like, this was a year ago also. So I feel like we don't really remember obviously every second of what we

filmed and everything that happened. We're like, we wonder how it's going to come together. But when we

watched the first episode, we were like, okay, it actually came together better than I thought.

Right? Don't you think it feels very natural? It is very natural and it's amazing. I think it's really came out in such a great way in the way that everything is clipped. It's just perfect. Did you like want to do reality TV like in the years between Atlanta and this? Like was that something you thought about? I feel like yes. But when I was younger, I hated it. When I was like in high school and just trying to like live my life. I was like I've done this for 10 years. Like I'm ready to just, you know, live my own like life and be like a do regular things in high school with everybody instead of come home and film. But then when I didn't have it for years on end, it was kind of like, there's something missing. Like I've done this for so long in my life and then now it was nowhere. So when we

started again, I was like, okay, this is, I remember, like I remember doing this and this feels like

second nature to me. I was going to say, did having the cameras there feel natural? Because not everyone,

you know, you kind of had a leg up with Riley, with Gia, with Brooks, understanding, like having a camera in your face where

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