NeNe: "Here's me as a cheerleader - I cheered in the little league as a little girl. Look at that hair - that is a hot mess!"

NeNe: "That's [me and my mom] at the Sweetheart Pageant."

NeNe: "My mom couldn't come to a lot of stuff I was in, because she was in New York, but she flew down and came to this pageant!"