The Real Housewives of Atlanta fans met Porsha Williams during Season 5, back when she was
still the conservative wife of Kordell Stewart.
After their 2013 split, she gained some independence and went through some major changes.
Here's why the transformation of Porsha Williams is turning heads.
During the Season 6 reunion in 2014, Andy Cohen told Williams that something about her
looked different.
"Seriously, you have new twins, right?"
"Do they look new?"
Williams was kicked out of the taping when her beef with Kenya Moore turned physical,
and didn't say much else on the matter.
"If that touches me, it's goin' up your ass, b----."
"Shut up."
However, she dished on her breast implants in subsequent interviews.
While speaking with OK! magazine that November, Williams explained,
"I have always loved my body and yes at this point being 33 years young.
I own who I am and all that it is.
I'm a woman with curves and hips that don't lie!
So what's wrong with a little more of me to love?
I finally got my Twins...I introduce you to Coco & Chanel!"
Four years after telling Steve Harvey that she was "enjoying them," Williams told Glamour
in September 2019,
"I've always wanted to get my breasts done just to round me out a bit.
I always had that athletic build, and I wanted to have a little more feminine touch.
It was something I wanted to do for me."
When Williams first joined The Real Housewives of Atlanta, she dressed more modestly.
She was a buttoned-up housewife, literally, and preferred to be covered up.
She admitted during a 2013 appearance on The Wendy Williams Show,
"I'll tell you what, if anybody decided...to be a 1950's wife, it was me."
"When I met a man that I could just cater to and just make him my world…"
"Yeah."
"...I decided to be that way with him."
Once she became a single lady again, Williams loosened up her outlook and her fashion.
Plus, she wanted to accentuate her new breast implants with a new wardrobe.
During a 2015 Housewives episode, Williams did a bikini photo shoot and famously gave
herself the arbitrary title of "The Princess of THOT-land."
That was quite the change from someone who used to say she had, in her words, "a ministry
inside" of her.
With time, Williams exposed even more of herself on TV, both emotionally and physically.
In addition to rocking matching swimsuit coverups with castmate Phaedra Parks, which were all
strings and revealed lots of skin, Williams opened up about trying on clothes with Housewives
of Atlanta's own NeNe Leakes in her Bravo blog, saying,
"I love anything that shows off my booty just as much as I love laughing with her!"
A major change, sure, but Williams' fans love her for it.
During her 2015 interview with Steve Harvey, Williams admitted that people thought she'd
gotten her nose done, but insisted,
"I haven't had any other work done except for the new girls."
"Somebody said I had my ribs crushed.
Can you imagine that?"
Just a year later, she appeared to change her mind about that, electing to get a non-surgical
nose job.
But unlike many celebs who get cosmetic procedures on the low, Williams was open about altering
her appearance.
Posting a video of the 15-minute procedure on Instagram in March 2016, the Housewives
star gave her doctor a shout out, writing,
"Thank you [Dr. Ourian] for my beautiful new nose-done in minutes WITHOUT surgery!!!"
E! News reports that Dr. Simon Ourian gave Williams injections of hyaluronic acid filler
to, quote, "enhance the shape of a small bridge of the nose."
He also told People magazine,
"The goal is not to craft the perfect nose but to shape a nose that perfectly suits the
patient's face."
The benefit of going this route instead of a surgical rhinoplasty is that the patient
doesn't need general anesthesia.
Also, the downtime is just a few days, in comparison to the months-long recovery that
comes with a full-on nose job.
Williams is known to share the alterations she's made to her body on social media and
Bravo, and clearly has nothing to hide when it comes to cosmetic enhancements.
But while she's always been open about what work she's had done, she insists that she's
gone through with these procedures solely to please herself, despite what anyone else
may think.
The reality star told Glamour in 2019,
"If you've had actual work done, surgically or not, it's a lifestyle of living better
and being guilt-free.
Whenever I talk about any type of surgery that we do to ourselves, it's important for
me to make sure you put out the message, 'Do it for yourself.'"
That December, Williams explained to Life & Style that women are often "shamed" for
altering their appearance because, in her words, "people think that women get work done
for other people or for a man."
She added that she's, quote, "able to celebrate" anything she gets done, saying,
"It was just for me to feel better about myself."
Williams welcomed her daughter in March 2019, and just like most moms, Williams' body changed
significantly throughout her pregnancy and after she gave birth to her baby.
But instead of concealing her body during this time, Williams emphasized her features
in form-fitting styles.
In December 2018, for example, she went on a "babymoon" vacation, which included a photo
shoot to document her pregnancy body.
The following month, Williams revealed on Dish Nation,
"I was supposed to be doing a maternity shoot, and I was like, 'You know what, let me do
some in [a] bikini...You know, why not?
I'm pregnant, [my] body [is changing], I'll probably never look like this unless I have
another child.'"
Williams continued to document her pregnancy right up until the end, sharing a video and
a few snaps showing off her baby bump during month nine.
In the caption, she wrote,
"My mommy loves to see how my body has changed.
Her baby having a baby awe."
While some mothers might be excited by the possibility of returning to a pre-baby body,
Williams actually missed her baby bump after her daughter was born.
In June 2019, she shared throwback photos on her Instagram Story, writing,
"About 3 months pregnant with my munchkin!
I'll have this body back please."
Williams has had no problem opening up about her body fluctuations, especially post-pregnancy,
and often shares photos that others might not be as comfortable posting online.
In September 2019, she told Glamour,
"Being on television, we carry a certain amount of responsibility to our younger fans, and
to other women like me, for instance, who have just had children...It's important for
me to also post a picture with my stomach when it's bloated to let you know that today
I'm wearing the shapewear.
So they don't have the expectations on themselves and that type of pressure."
While Williams makes it a point to show her body in its true form, without editing, this
has unfortunately garnered its fair share of criticism.
Just the month before her Glamour interview, she responded to a so-called fan on Instagram
who mocked her post-baby body, clapping back with,
"I should cover up at 4 months postpartum at a pool with my baby??...shoot I had a whole
baby and love every roll of love, mark of bravery, and miracle stripe on my body!...Don't
let anyone shame you into being insecure about your mommy temple that created a little miracle!
You're awesome just the way you are!"
Initially, Williams was all about the post-pregnancy snap back after giving birth to her daughter.
Even her Housewives of Atlanta frenemy Kandi Burruss posted that Williams', quote, "bounce
back game is strong" in May 2019.
While no one could argue that Williams looked anything other than amazing, she started to
share a more realistic perspective on social media as the time passed.
That August, the Bravo starlet sent out a distinctly different message to her followers.
Williams wrote on Instagram,
"The snap back culture has put pressure on most moms so they end up feeling insecure
about what their body is naturally doing and looks like.
Call me weird but I actually adore my lil marks and feel like it's a lil badge of honor
as all moms should.
I had Pj 4 months ago and I just don't feel ready to workout."
Williams proudly displayed her postpartum body on Instagram the following month, writing,
"Life is great!
No I'm not pregnant just 5 months postpartum."
During a 2015 appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Williams addressed rumors that she'd
gotten butt implants when host Andy Cohen brought up the speculation.
In actuality, this real housewife had simply gained a few pounds.
Williams explained,
"I know!
I heard Kandi came on the show, and you asked her, and she said she thinks [I did].
She knows this is cornbread fed."
"Let me, honey, don't try me, boo boo."
Insisting that it was all natural, she even got up from her seat to shake her booty around
as evidence to support her claim, and declared,
"This is real Georgia meat right here.
Don't do it."
However, that wasn't the only time that the Housewives star was hit with accusations that
she got her butt surgically enhanced.
In December 2017, Williams took to Instagram to share a video of herself shaking what she
described in a hashtag as "good ol' winter weight."
Celebrity Insider reports that the clip led to several comments questioning whether she'd
had butt implants.
One person wrote,
"Must be jelly cause the jam don't shake honey.
What's that line?
Is that her implant?"
Another fan defended Williams, writing,
"Guess what?
She gained weight ALL OVER, butt included.
Like I said.
Have you seen her mother? they are just hating.
Her body is real."
In July 2017, Williams watched the documentaries, What the Health and Cowspiracy, on Netflix,
and felt compelled to change her lifestyle and go vegan.
She shared on Instagram,
"I made a promise to myself to treat myself better...mind body & [soul]...Anyway I'm now
a vegan I'm claiming it for my life.
I'm going to try to hold myself accountable by sharing some of the journey with you all."
Williams went on to reveal that she'd already, quote, "lost most of [her] extra tummy fat
in only two days."
Apart from hoping to get back in the Housewives group's good graces after being linked to
some drama, becoming what Williams described as a "baby vegan" was her other main storyline
for Season 10.
"You have to throw out this baconator."
"What is…?"
"Oh my god, yep."
"You gotta throw it away."
"That's a wrap."
In one episode, she told some of the ladies that she weighed 175 pounds before making
the dietary change.
However, after dropping some weight, her diet came to halt when she got pregnant.
During a November 2018 Watch What Happens Live appearance, Williams answered a question
from a caller about her veganism.
"Girl, I am not vegan anymore.
I am full-blown pregnant, and one of my cravings is ham."
She went on to say,
"So no, I haven't [been sticking to a vegan diet], but I am definitely going to be vegan
after the baby."
Considering Williams got re-engaged to on-and-off fiancé Dennis McKinley in late 2019, it's
not surprising that she appears to have ditched the vegan life.
McKinley happens to be the owner of The Original Hot Dog Factory in Atlanta.
In addition to all of that hot dog access, Williams admittedly didn't have a stringent
diet during the coronavirus pandemic.
In May 2020, the reality star posted side-by-side photos of herself on Instagram from when she
wasn't pregnant on the left and when she was on the right.
Joking that they represented, "Before Quarantine Vs After," she wrote,
"I gotta start reeling it in whose with me?!
Let's workout!
I've gained about 12 pounds...I still look nice but just wanna be more comfortable and
not pass out at the top of the steps...so ima start with cardio in morning!!!"
Later that month, Williams revealed she was back on her grind, sharing that she'd started
working out for the first time in a year and a half.
Clearly, Williams puts the "real" in The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Yes, she's altered her appearance over the years, but she's been upfront about every
single part of her stunning transformation along the way.
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