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Katie Ginella made her debut on The Real Housewives of Orange County season 18. She is a housewife and a former golf reporter and was introduced to the RHOOC group by her friend Gina Kirschenheiter.
After her family moved to Orange County, Katie was eager to make some friends and launch her cocktail brand. With her arrival, she was thrown right into the RHOOC drama and learned a lesson about loyalty in the OC.
Katie was born in South Korea and later adopted by Catholic foster parents in Georgia. In this season, Katie decided that she was ready to explore and learn more about her Korean heritage. She was also determined to find her birth mother.
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Katie Ginella is a 40-year-old housewife and entrepreneur from Atlanta, Georgia. She is married to professional golf journalist Matt Ginella and has four children: three from her previous marriage to Andrew Sundseth (Kaili Sundseth, Gavin Sundseth, and Maxon Sundseth) and one son, Brandon Ginella, with Matt.
In her The Real Housewives of Orange County confessional, Katie shared that she used to be a travel reporter for Back9 Network, while her husband Matt was a travel reporter for a golf channel.
For the last eight years, she has been developing different women's golf firms. She has been growing them, doing business development and marketing for the businesses. With this job, she aimed to put women's companies on the map to compete with men's companies.
Katie said that she is a Korean American and was adopted from Korea by a Catholic family when she was five years old. She added that she is also "four percent African American."
Katie said in her confessional that in her free time, she enjoys drinking martinis with her friends at a winery or restaurant to have fun and catch up. However, she said that she does not have a lot of free time between taking care of four kids, her traveling husband, running three households, and two businesses.
Katie Ginella's Instagram
The Real Housewives of Orange County star Katie Ginella has an Instagram account (@katie.ginella) with 42.6K followers. With over 559 posts, she mostly posts photos of her outings with her friends and family. Her recent posts include bits and videos from her appearance on season 18 of The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Her bio reads that she is "Mama to 4 angels" and a "Waffle House addict." She is a golf fanatic & co-founder of a golf brand called TeeShots that offers flavored drinks in a golf ball-like container, celebrating the golfer's lifestyle.
Katie Ginella talks about joining The Real Housewives of Orange County
When asked in her confessional what interest she was bringing to the show, Katie said she was extremely interested in fashion. To her, it's like an art and expression.
Katie shared that The Real Housewives of Orange County fans were not happy with the fact that she was using a stylist team on the show. She explained that she is a busy woman and doesn't want to worry about styling herself when she has to do a lot of work.
"But my whole thing is, if I am working if I am making these new friends in Orange County, if my husband is traveling, I have four kids in sports and dogs... If I have one less thing to do, other than check off and mark off things I like, I gotta do that," Katie explained.
Katie's move from San Diego to Orange County was pretty seamless. She said that she and her family did not fit in well with San Diego, and Orange County felt like home from day one, and she loved the place.
In an interview with PopCulture on July 10, 2024, she talked about her excitement about joining the show. She said that she was glad to be the first "Korean Housewife across the franchises" and that the show would be a "cool marketing opportunity” for her business.
However, things were not all roses for her on the show. She had a beef with her castmate Heather Dubrow, who thought the new arrival had "pre-conceived notions" to join the RHOOC group. Heather said in one of the episodes of season 18 that she would have welcomed Katie with an open arm if she had gotten to know her organically.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 18 is available to stream on Bravo.
