The Celebreality Interview - Ki Ki

Ki Ki didn’t go on Real Chance of Love to make friends…but she did! And enemies! A lot of them. Below, Ki Ki clears up some misconceptions she feels people may have after watching her on the show. It turns out that the self-described “down-ass bitch” and “most aggressive girl in the house” actually has a sense of humor and a heart! The latter, of course, depends on the subject…for proof just check out the choice words she had for Milf…

What did you think of your portrayal?

I feel that I wasn’t portrayed 100 percent as a whole. Everyone has different sides to their personality, and I feel that VH1 focused on my bitchier moments to create this character for me. Anyone that was in the house or that knows me personally knows that I’m a person with a good sense of humor. I joke a lot. I play a lot. I do impersonations and I had the girls laughing all the time. I was portrayed as this angry black woman, but it wasn’t like that the whole time. I read the blogs and what people have to say and it seems like this show has a very impressionable audience. These people seem to let VH1 dictate their opinion of not just myself, but of other people on this show and others. People don’t take the time to sit back and get to know these people on their own. Since I’ve been on the show, I get recognized in public and when people meet me, they say, “You’re nothing like you are on the show.”

Obviously, they showed what you gave them, even if your portrayal isn’t as well-rounded as you’d like. Were you surprised that you were characterized the way you were?

With reality TV, nothing surprises me. But I wish they kept it real in all aspects. Don’t sugarcoat s***, keep it real.

All of that said, it’s very clear that you’re a person who doesn’t take s***.

Of course. I speak my mind. I’m a very outspoken person. I had no intention of going on this show and changing who I am for people’s viewing pleasure. That’s not what I was there for.

When watching the show, did you get the sense that you were the bad guy?

Most definitely! At first, I was pissed off, but at the same time, I now have the chance to turn that around whether it’s to people I meet in person and conversate with on MySpace. I reply back to all those messages I receive.

I know that you made your MySpace private. Has it been difficult dealing with the haters?

Haters are why I made it private. You also need to be my friend to send me a message. So if a hater is willing to take out that much damn time to send me a friend request and wait for me to accept it in order to send me a message, they need to get a damn life. It’s not that serious.

It’s smart of you to safeguard against that.

I mean, I’m a strong person anyway, so nothin’ that nobody can say really affects me. Especially someone that doesn’t know me. I could give a damn. People are entitled to their opinions, but at the same time, I don’t have to deal with it. It takes time away that I could be spending replying to my supporters.

That said, do you wish you were less aggressive on the show?

No. Then I’d be downplaying who I am. And like I said, I had no intentions of doing that. You either like me or you don’t.

On the first episode, when you said, “I’m not here to make friends,” did you realize that that’s said on, like, every reality show?

It was just something that so happened to come out. But actually Bay Bay Bay had known each other before the show. We’re both from the same city. So people have been saying that I contradicted myself from the first episode, saying I wasn’t there to make friends, but me and Bay Bay Bay already knew each other. But I had been saying that all day. Corn Fed kinda got the backlash. It’s not like I just decided to chew her ass out. I’d been saying it all day. I am a person who hates to repeat myself.

Did you have any regrets about the Lusty blow-up? It was kind of shocking that you kept at her, even after you’d realized that her mother is dead.

At the beginning of Episode 4, the first thing you hear me saying is, “Bitch this, bitch that…” They didn’t show that she walked past me and said something to make me react. If you knew I had just said something hurtful to you the night before and we got in this altercation that had your ass in tears, why the hell would you start with me again? I stay in my corner, you stay in yours.

I liked when you said, “For real? For real?” after Real eliminated you.

I couldn’t believe it. It was like, you gonna choose this nasty hoe [Milf] over me? Should I have walked around with my ass and t**ties hanging out, letting Chance touch on me? I wasn’t going to compromise myself to get a damn chain. It ain’t that serious. She used her body and sex to get far in the competition and like I said on the extras, she musta been sucking somebody’s d*** because there wasn’t any reason for her to still be on there.

Was that the major reason you didn’t like her? Bay Bay Bay suggested that Milf was a threat.

Ugh. She’s just stanky. Why do you have to use sex to try to get a man? That’s hella tacky. People say, “Oh, Ki Ki’s ghetto,” but what they don’t know is that ghetto switch goes on and off. Milf, she’s just a hoe 24/7. She was nothing but a toy thing to Real, and I honestly don’t think he took her seriously. Like I said, she was an STD: Something To Do.

The show suggested that your connection with Real faded over time. Was that your experience?

No. They only showed me and Real having one-on-one time during the day. There were other times me and Real had conversations. They didn’t show that. They wanted to make it seem like he wasn’t feeling me at all. There was a connection between me and Real.

Did it hurt to be eliminated?

I was more disappointed in the choice that he made. I just don’t feel that Milf was the right person for him. Regardless of me being the most aggressive person in the house, I’m a down-ass bitch. I’m loyal as f*** to my nigga. He get in trouble, he fighting, I fight, too. He about to go ride, I go ride, too. I think if it came down to it, Milf woudln’t have had Real’s back.

Do you resent Real?

Not at all. I know he had to go with the flow.

Did you bond with anyone besides Bay Bay Bay?

So Hood! I got along with the majority of the girls in the house. Corn Fed and I straightened out our beef. I talk to Cali all the time. I still talk to Rabbit. Risky. Not that you could tell by what you saw on TV.

Are there any other misconceptions you want to clear up?

This is one thing I want to address: on the extra clips from the last episode, when Chance was disussing his time with Real’s girls, he mentioned that Bay Bay Bay has a tattoo of another guy’s name on her wrist and Real said that I have a tattoo of a guy’s name on my neck. It’s not a guy’s name — it says Pisces. I don’t know what the hell Real was reading, but it’s not a guy’s name.

I tend to find that Real is wrong a lot.

The only guy’s name I have on my body is my son’s name and that’s the tattoo you see with the dog paw.

Did this experience sour you on reality TV?

No. But from the inside looking out you see things differently. Before I went on the show, I was one of those people who relied on TV to give me my opinion of the people on these shows. Now that I know how it really works, that changed. I’ve had a sour taste in my mouth about some of the girls who were on Flavor of Love or some of the guys who were in I Love New York. Since then, my opinion has changed. Until they give me a reason not to like them, I don’t judge them.

Would you do another reality show?

Most definitely. I had a good experience. Now that I know how it works, I’m able to play the game a little bit better.

Keep up with Ki Ki via her MySpace.