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PHOTOS – The Real Housewives of Orange County Before They Were Famous!

It’s that special time again Reality Tea readers!

We’re midway through the sixth season of the Real Housewives of Orange County so what better time to bring you some before/old school/blackmail photos of your favorite OC housewives. On the top left is none other than Tamra Sue Barney and on the right is a teenage Gretchen Rossi! (Feel free to click on either image to make it bigger).

Below are way more before they were famous photos including some shots of Alexis Bellino and hubby Jim Bellino before any plastic surgery, Peggy Tanous during her modeling days, a much younger Vicki Gunvalson and hubby Donn. Plus more awesome shots of Tamra & her wild 80s hairstyles, and more Gretchen!

Photos source – Bravotv.com

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Alexis Bellino and hubby Jim Bellino before the chimplant?

 

An old school glamour shot of Alexis Bellino

 

A young Alexis Bellino

 

Alexis Bellino with her parents

 

Gretchen Rossi from back in the day

 

Gretchen again

 

A picture of a young Gretchen Rossi with her brother

 

Gretchen Rossi with her parents

 

Gretchen Rossi rocking a bikini!

 

A young Peggy Tanous

 

Peggy Tanous still looks the same today as back in the day

 

Peggy Tanous sports a bikini during her modeling days

 

A younger Vicki Gunvalson

 

Vicki Gunvalson with her kids Michael and Briana Wolfsmith

 

Vicki Gunvalson and hubby Donn Gunvalson

 

Vicki relaxes at the beach

 

An old shot of Vicki Gunvalson and her family

 

Tamra Barney with her son Ryan as a baby

 

Tamra Barney as a young girl

 

A foxy Tamra Barney from back in the day

 

Tamra Barney Shows Off Her Rocking Bikini Body!

 


Tamra Barney with son Ryan on the left and Simon Barney on the right



242 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

  1. Harsh doesn’t even cover it!! I am sure you all are hitting the nerve of every housewife. Even though I watch the show for the drama of it all, and reading your comments are very similar. I have to say Jim looks very proud of his twins, and it sweet how Alexis is peering over his arm. If any of you remember that vunerable feeling right after childbirth, these photos depict it well. Poor Tamra is allowed to have bad hair with a new baby. She still has the hospital braclets on! I enjoy watching those housewives as much as anyone else, but they tear each other up enough with out our help. We will never really know the true women behind the show… but I can’t wait till next season. THANK YOU LADIES FOR PUTTING IT OUT THERE! True, false or plain BS… it is entertainment!

  2. 202
    anonymous

    Alexis Bellino is one ugly chick.

  3. Alexis has turned into “plastic”

  4. 204
    shakenbake

    ALEXIS LOOKS LIKE JIMS DAUGHTER, SHE IS SO PLASTIC NOW AND WHO IS HE , HE IS ONE UGLY DUDE

  5. Yes, makeup and plastic surgery has definitely done a lot for these ladies. I still don’t know why hooker chic is mostly their thing. When everything starts going south, you definitely need more support. Take note Vicki!!

    And why do any of them want to wear stuff that people really only in their late teens and 20s can carry off. They need better stylists and soon.

  6. 206
    Rockmelon

    If I saw anyone walking around my town looking like any one of these ladies, I would think the circus was in town!

    I’m thankful that I had very natural, soft, warm mother to cuddle with. These women look like manikins.

  7. Tamra looks very mousey and her big hair is quite awful. I think she’s the biatchiest of them all. Vicki Gunvalson is the most immature housewife of any of the casts. Can’t stand her. Together, Vicki and Tamra are the biggest cheats, liars, and backstabbers.

  8. Off all the things wrong with Jim Bellino, he thought that he needed to fix his chin???

  9. Geez… how much plastic surgery has Gretchen had.??.. just as I suspected they are all huge phonies.

  10. 210
    GretchenWasAndIsBeautiful

    Tamra was an ugly child and she really sucked in her fat for that bikini pic. She’s fat now. She is the one with mad cow.

    Vicki was ugly even then. Her teeth were fixed recently and she still looks like a beaver.

    Gretchen has braces and not yellow teeth. Gretchen and Alexis were very pretty then and are beautiful now.

    Jeana was also very beautiful back then.

  11. Gretchen was sure pretty in her earlier photos and the first season of OC, but now she looks gaunt and just plain gross. Also Tamra and Alexis are the best looking, in my opinion.

  12. Oh, and left off the trans-gender housewife…Peggy!…you look like a man in drag.

  13. It must be devasting for these shells of human beings when their looks fade and there is literally nothing left.

  14. 214
    madamedummy

    tamra ‘bumfuk’ barney came from
    ‘children of the damned ‘ …
    now that’s real trash ..
    lawd !

  15. alexis and gretchen fugly from birth

  16. 216
    anonymous

    WTF!! Alexis,…I can understand everyone needs alike work once you start getting older. But DAMN GIRL!! YOU MUST HAVE LOW SELF ESTEEM IF YOU HAVE TO KEEP GOING BACK FOR BOTOX AND PLASTIC ADJUSTMENTS. See a psychiatrist and…DUMP CHUBAKA, YOU CALL A HUSBAND!

  17. 217
    Expect2Much

    I really think that all the Housewives are dillusional.

  18. 218
    Sugarwawas

    I think Alexis is the prettiest of the group, followed by Gretchen.

  19. i think Gretchen is the prettiest and then Alexis…but both were pretty as young girls before their surgeries and veneers and such. Peggy has a strange look and she looks old, Vicki is not normal standard of pretty, she is not ugly but she has an ugly nose and Tamara wants to be “hot” so bad that she looks like she is trying too hard. The horrible “80′s rockstar makeup” is atrocious and I am sorry to say she just looks cheap and if someone told me Eddie was gay, I could see it.

  20. 220
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    Think that tamra has to be the bitchiest,nasty person and is quite clearly very very jealous of gretchen…hottest housewife my ass….surely hot is whne you look like a beauty naturally…not plastic and paid for

  21. 221
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    vicky and tamra should be sisters as they are both ugly horrid people inside and out,childish,nasty,petty and a embarrassment to women!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  22. NOW I get the ‘dragqueen’ comments at the RHOC reunion specials over the years: except for Gretchen, the way too tight dresses, 4 inch heels (which makes anyone walk like a guy), and heavy makeup only a 25-year old could pull off, they do look like transvestites. ewwwww! Bethenny is the only real housewife ever- I don’t care where you live – nobody wears false eyelashes and high heels at home.

  23. tamra wot a dog then wot a dog now well it matches her nature doent it. take all the make up off these women and thay are nothing at all . Iam so glad that simon left her he can find a true lady and not a spitefull low down tart

  24. These women look like tranvestites. Who wears full makeup to go to the gym. They put on so much make up and still look transgender. Gretchen was pretty in the first series but now she looks really hard and her skin looks bad. Hanging around with peggy definatley brings all tghe house wives into the the are they men or women questions category when you see then walking down the street.

  25. Oh and i forgeot that other one LYN ….my gawd If these women want to look beautiful they need to take tips from natural looking women.

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    I like Jenna. She is probably the most real person amongst them all but she does need to stay out of Tameras business. Shes totally crossing the line there.

  27. 227
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    None of these women have any class. They all need lessons in etiquitte they are they nothing more than trash with cash. If any of them came to the classy restaurants and places i frequent they would stand out because they would look like 2cent hookers

  28. 228
    sue ellen

    jealous much?

  29. 229
    OCHousewifesAreUgly

    Lol… Thanks for the laugh, publishing these.
    They’re all ugly both on the inside and outside. They have have ugly, selfish hearts.

  30. Alexis was really ugly and still is. She’s also on the stupid side. Jim is a fraud and a con artist, also in bankruptcy. Peggy is very nice. Vivki is so greedy and jealous, she also has been ugly her whole life. Tamra is pretty but not very smart but at least she is honest. Gretch was fat when she was younger and her teeth were such a mess. Gretchen is not pretty, its all plastic and shiny like Lynn says. Gretchen has new teeth and so fake looking as well as her hair. She’s just manufactured. All of them are stupid with no college educations and Jeanna was a whore.

  31. Each of them look better before plastic surgery. Can they get it reversed? I think plastic surgery made them look older.

  32. I think icky vicki is in love with trashy tamra. They both are wanna be girls. Even if they have a little money now still just plain’ol white trash girls. And tt you and your son creep me out.

  33. peggy you look like a man, you will be traded-in soon for a younger blonde. funny how you thought those pictures were so hot. NOT! get your hubby a real gift

  34. Are you guys on crack? Gretchen looks the worst out of everyone. She reminds of the 80′s movie “Mask”. OMG thank goodness for plastic surgery. Alexis was pretty and still is despite the ps.

  35. 235
    heather waite

    The uglies housewives are a toss up between Kim Z, Camille Grammer, and Vicki G.

  36. Alexis looks so much better before the plastic surgery – too bad she ruined her face. And Gretchen looks a lot better without the eight tons of black eyeliner and fake eyelashes. Get a clue, ladies!

  37. 237
    Janice Barnkle

    They were all such beautiful women/girls before. Why are people never happy with who they are, why do we always think we have to change in order to be beautiful. So sad.

  38. 238
    Colorado

    They are all fake, ugly, and need to work on their inside instead of their outside all the time. Looks do not last forever and it will be funny to see what happens to all of them when the looks disappear!

  39. Gretchen looked like she belonged in the movie Mask! Lmao! Now she just looks like the cat woman of OC.

  40. 240
    Abby Wabby

    Gretchen Looks the same except for her boob which I think she’s tweaked. Whenshe took off her make up, I saw the girl in the cheer leading outfit. IMO her face hasn’t changed only she wears a ton of makeup and the hair is lighter!

  41. Tamra’s bikini photo looks strikingly familiar to Michelle Pfeiffer in Scarface!

  42. Gretchen is a hideous person. there’s not enough makeup in the world that could help her!