Phaedra Parks’s Diamond Bracelet
The New York Times
Currently in “Dancing With the Stars,” the reality television star wears an extravagant Mother’s Day gift — one she proudly helped pay for.
Phaedra Parks has raised two lavish gift gifters.
There was the handmade floral brooch her youngest son crafted in preschool: “It looked more like a flower that vomited, but I loved it,” said Ms. Parks, the reality television star who was on the last season of “The Traitors” and is currently a contestant on “Dancing With the Stars.” Her sons gave her chocolate $100 bills, wrapped in actual $100 bills. “You like money and you like chocolate,” her sons said, “so we thought you would like chocolate bills.”
Now that the kids are older (14 and 11), their gifts are a bit more sophisticated. Ms. Parks discusses the Mother’s Day diamond bracelet that she ended up subsidizing. This interview has been edited and condensed.
Tell me about your bracelet.
I think it’s a 20-carat diamond bracelet, and my sons picked it out for me. They know I love diamonds. Well, I actually had to buy it. Because being children, they said, “Oh, this is you, Mom. It looks so good on you. You have to have it.” And when [the salesperson] told them the price, they said, “We can never afford that.”
So that’s — gifts are about the process behind it. It’s very sentimental to me.
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