"There's some real moments where it's been a revelation to me, because I'm tough, I'm scrappy, I'm, you know, the tough one from Harlem."
Fields admits that she has gained the reputation of being the momma bear among her castmates.
"I don't know that I wanted to be the mother bear," says the mother-of-two. "I think that I've always been a nurturing kind of person. I'll be prepared with snacks and a towel if we're going to the lake. I think it's more just from that prepared kind of thing, or you know, voice of reasons sometimes."
"I don't know if that's my role, and in terms of fitting in, I think I'm, honestly, still finding my way," she continued. "It's not like, um, it's not like we were all alike right out of the gate, so it's... when you really think about it, it's over just a few months of time. People work on friendships for years."
While Fields is new to the cast, she says she's not former RHOA star NeNe Leakes' replacement.
"I didn't feel like there was any sense of trying to fill a void, and god in heaven knows I never looked at myself as any sort of replacement, not as a friend, not for a TV personality," she explained . "NeNe Leakes is irreplaceable, so I don't think that there's any sense of, you know, trying to fill a void."
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