It’s a busy time for “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” star Kenya Moore. Not only is she in smack-dab in the middle of her first frenemy-filled season on Bravo’s most successful “Housewives” franchise, but today marks the (online retail) release of her new fitness DVD, “Kenya Moore: Booty Boot Camp,” which the former Miss USA has done with instructor Nikkie Veal.
And while the DVD promises to “Get the round stallion booty you’ve always wanted!,” Moore says it’s actually applicable to all parts of the body.
“It’s a full-body workout that doesn’t just focus on the rear,” she told The Starr Report. “It’s toning the entire body head to toe, with an emphasis on toning and tightening and lifting the butt . . . however, it focuses on the whole body for men and women.
“After all, everybody wants a nice body.”
Moore, who was crowned Miss USA back in 1993, says it was perfect timing when she approached Acacia with the idea for the DVD. “I was working on a fitness DVD for a client that didn’t happen,” she says. “One of the wonderful things about working with Acacia is that the first time we called them to gauge their interest, the first question they asked is, ‘Are you in it?’
“I was focusing on other projects at the time but it all worked out for the best,” she says. “I’ve lived a clean and healthy lifestyle for the last 20 years and the demands of the entertainment business require me to stay healthy and fit.
“What I like about the video is that there are three separate workouts, Levels 1 through 3, and it gets progressively harder,” Moore says. “We also have an ab routine on there; I pride myself on having mini six-pack abs and I know what works for me, and what works quickly.”
(The DVD will be available in select stores in May.)
As far as her role on “The Real Housewives,” Moore says her reality TV debut has been “nothing what I expected” while mixing — and sometimes fighting with — co-stars Cynthia Bailey, NeNe Leakes, Kandi Burruss, Kim Zolciak, Phaedra Parks and Porsha Stewart.
“I expected [the cameras] would follow me around, capture what I was doing, that I’d meet with the girls and have cocktails and we’d have a great time,” she says. “It’s been just the opposite. Obviously there’s a lot of tension — you have many different women on the show with various personalities and motives as to why they’re there and interacting with you.
“It’s been a little challenging for me to adjust,” she says. “And now that I’m not a virgin in the reality TV world, I know how to deal with the challenges in the next season, as well as not be so stressed.”
Moore is honest regarding her “motives” for appearing on the show. “First and foremost for me, I’m a businesswoman who may have been in Hollywood for the last 20 years but I certainly understand the benefits of being on a number-one reality show . . . and what that means for me in terms of . . . what that can do for my projects, such as the [fitness] DVD,” she says.
“In terms of my personal life, I’m doing something I’ve never done before and stretching a little outside my comfort zone of being in LA and being complacent and not necessarily feeling fulfilled in my personal life.
“I’m closer to my family now — I’d recently moved to Atlanta — and focused on love, marriage and babies. This allows me to have some stability,” she says. “I’ve gotten pretty close to NeNe and most of the girls. I’ve just had tension with a few, but that’s expected . . . but I didn’t need to do the show or be famous. I came with my own accolades and, for me, my focus was different, maybe, from some of the other ladies.”
Moore says her second book, called “Invisible,” will be published later this year.
“It’s basically a memoir,” she says. “I reveal a lot about myself, including my relationship with my mother. She is a person who has not been diagnosed with a mental disorder but I believe she suffers from one — it was challenging, and as a child I was dealing with someone who was emotionally abusive.”
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The US TV premiere of “Hindenburg: The Last Flight,” airs next Monday and Tuesday, March 11 and 12, on Encore (8 p.m. both nights) with stars Stacy Keach, Greta Scacchi, Lauren Lee Smith and Maximilian Simonichek.
Meanwhile, over at Encore’s sister network, Starz, congrats are in order for Theano Apostolou, who’s been promoted to executive VP, communications. She’s based in LA.
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Last, but not least:
* Sandra Bernhard guest-stars on ABC’s “The Neighbors” tomorrow night — then, on Thursday, performs at The Music of Prince at Carnegie Hall to benefit underprivileged youth organizations in NYC . . . Fox has renewed “The Following” (Kevin Bacon), “New Girl,” “The Mindy Project” and “Raising Hope” . . . The first episode of “Emo Dad” from T
he Fine Brothers goes live today on YouTube (youtube.com/user/thefinebros
). The channel has 2.8 million subscribers . . . “The Better Show,” which airs weekdays at 6 a.m. on Ch. 55, will join Hallmark Channel’s daytime lineup next fall.