Top 5 Housewives Don’t Need Labor Day

Labor Day is here, so naturally it’s time to celebrate the Housewives who have contributed absolutely nothing to the American workforce.

1. Teresa Giudice — When we met Teresa, her primary occupations appeared to be cooking, shopping, raising four daughters, and spending an alarming amount of money. She eventually became a businesswoman, cookbook author, and reality-TV star, but early RHONJ Teresa was very much living the Housewives dream.

2. Kim Richards — Kim had been a child actress, so technically she had worked. But by the time she arrived on RHOBH, her main professional activity seemed to be disappearing from group events, avoiding confrontation, and occasionally wandering into the middle of someone else’s argument.

3. Camille Grammer — Camille arrived on RHOBH as the wife of Kelsey Grammer, living in a mansion, attending charity events, and informing everyone that she was “a dancer.” She also had modeling and acting credits, but watching Season 1, you could be forgiven for thinking her full-time occupation was being married to Kelsey Grammer.

4. Kelly Killoren Bensimon — Kelly had a legitimate career in modeling, writing, and magazine work, so she doesn’t literally belong on this list. But she gets a spot for the sheer amount of time she spent explaining that she was a busy, important New York person while doing things like going to a scary island and insisting that she was up at 5 a.m. running.

5. Sonja Morgan — Sonja had worked before RHONY and has had plenty of business ventures since, but there was a stretch of the show where her primary employment appeared to be living in a townhouse, wearing lingerie, drinking, and explaining why her toaster oven was going to revolutionize the world. She was essentially self-employed in the field of being Sonja Morgan.

Happy Labor Day Weekend to everyone who actually has a job.