LS Episode 537: From Bravo to Ballots (feat. Dr. Heavenly Kimes)
Angela Yee's Lip Service
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4.5 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Heavenly Kimes from Married to Medicine joins Angela Yee and the Lip Service crew to talk about her historic run for Congress in Georgia, her reality-TV fame turning into political power, and the personal moments that shaped her journey.
She opens up about the arrest of her son, discovering her half-brother years later, and why she refuses to exploit her marriage for reality TV — even when everyone else does. Heavenly also breaks down how healthcare cuts, Medicaid changes, and mental-health crises are hurting her district, and why she believes she was called to serve.
From Bravo drama to Capitol Hill, this is one of the most unfiltered and revealing conversations Heavenly has ever had.
Topics include:
• Why she’s running for Congress
• How reality TV prepared her for politics
• Her son’s arrest and how it changed her
• Why she won’t put her marriage on TV
• Mental health, Medicaid, and Georgia voters
• Drama with the Married to Medicine cast
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.5 | What's up is lip service? |
| 0:07.7 | I'm Angela Yee. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Gigi McGuire. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Jordy Jor. |
| 0:10.5 | And I'm Dr. Heavenly. |
| 0:11.8 | Yes, man. |
| 0:13.4 | Well, first of all, Dr. Heavenly. |
| 0:16.3 | I just want to say congratulations. |
| 0:18.4 | I was excited when I found out that you were running for Congress in Georgia. Yes. That's a big deal. And I also saw that your numbers, your polls are amazing. |
| 0:27.5 | Yes. You know, I'm a numbers person. So before I decided to run for Congress, I actually did a poll. |
| 0:33.2 | And I statistically tied for number two before I even announced my candidate. Oh, wow. That's how you got to see. Because I'm knowing my district. Like every county in my district I've actually owned a practice in. So the people know me. Oh, the people know you. Yeah. And I saw you talking about you actually were inspired by your son. And that was a big plot on married to medicine where you didn't know he got arrested until much later. Your husband |
| 0:55.8 | knew you didn't know. So tell us about why that was an inspiration for you. Well, I think that |
| 1:01.4 | is a testimony because so many black men are unalive by police officers in situations that could be, |
| 1:08.1 | you know, he was arrested at gunpoint, you know. He did some things that he shouldn't have done. |
| 1:13.2 | I mean, I'm not saying the cops were even wrong, but I'm just grateful that my son is okay. |
| 1:17.6 | You know, and actually, when he went to the jail, the cop knew my husband because my husband |
| 1:25.1 | worked in the ER and he had, you know, saved his life. |
| 1:27.3 | And he recognized the name. |
| 1:44.3 | Wow. And they called Damon. Wow. Yeah. Wow. That is fortunate for him. Absolutely. Because it could have went a whole other way. You know, and on the show they act like I'm running from it. No, it's a testimony, you know. I'm just so grateful. I thank God every day. I've heard some of the ladies be like, |
| 1:59.4 | oh, she did know, how she didn't know about it, how it, you know, because it was so fast. Like, you know, my husband handled it. You know what I'm saying? And it didn't come up to the court dockets ten years later. So when I saw it on Twitter, I see stuff all the time. I saw that, You know, me and my husband was getting a divorce on Twitter. |
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