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Ariana Biermann shared a video on TikTok on Monday, during which she revealed that her mom, Real Housewives of Atlanta alum Kim Zolciak, tricked her into getting her freckles removed when she was just 14 years old.
As she was seen applying fake freckles in her clip, the 23-year-old Next Gen NYC star explained that she’d been forced to do so to achieve a more natural look after Kim, 47, arranged for her real freckles to be removed nearly a decade ago — without her consent.
“I always put on freckles. Every time I do it, it makes me think of the fact that I would not be putting on these freckles had my mother not of gotten rid of my freckles when I was 14,” Ariana explained.
According to Ariana, Kim arranged for her to get a facial. And not realizing what that facial would entail, she agreed.
“I was like, ‘Okay, going to get a facial. Whatever.’ And my friend’s like, ‘Girl, where are your freckles going?’ I’m like, ‘What are you talking about?’” she recalled.
Then, after questioning the esthetician, Ariana learned that her mother had told the woman that she hated her freckles and wanted them gone.
“[She was] like, ‘Your mom told me that you didn’t like them and you wanted me to remove them with the facial [by] layering them off,'” Ariana revealed, asking, “What?! I love my freckles.”
“I have some on one side of my face more than the other. Still, just not a lot, at all, so now I put them on,” she continued.
Looking back at a recent conversation she had with Kim about the unwanted procedure, Ariana seemed to suggest that her mom felt the ordeal was funny.
“She just started laughing,” Ariana shared. “It’s like, ‘You’re a jack*ss.’ Now, I add them onto my face because I don’t have them anymore because somebody removed them. I didn’t want them removed. Nobody said. Literally, nobody said. So now I’m constantly stamping them on and trying to make them look even just remotely like what mine looked like growing up.”
“I miss my freckles. Mom, you’re a jack*ss for that. I love you, but insane,” she concluded.
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Unsurprisingly, after Ariana’s video was shared, her fans and followers had a lot to say about Kim.
“That is not normal behavior,” one person noted as another said they respected Ariana for “even being in contact” with Kim, whom Ariana previously admitted stole her childhood earnings.
“Keep being everything she wishes she was in a human being!!!” they wrote.
“May I please ask, do you and Brielle have body image issues bc of your mom?” another person wondered. “It seems that all she’s ever cared about was being thin. She even photoshops her pics to look thinner. I know she’s probably lost weight from stress, but you can tell she photoshops.”
Others encouraged Ariana to “write a book,” as another fan said Kim’s actions were “actually crazy.”