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Crystal Kung Minkoff

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Crystal Kung Minkoff Reveals Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Her Pop Star Brother Jeffrey Kung

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills cast member Crystal King Minkoff recently shared that while she grew up in Los Angeles, a career in front of the camera and a life of fame didn’t really cross her mind.

“Never. Never occurred to me. It was not, like, on our radar. I grew up in a very traditional Chinese household. My brother was gonna work in finance and I was gonna be a surgeon, and that was sort of our path. So then he becomes a pop star, and then I end up here. So, I don’t even know what happened, where we went off the rails. But we are definitely the, you know, in a great way, the black sheep of our sort of extended family. They always laugh, like, ‘What happened to you guys,’ you know?” Crystal recently joked in an interview with Bravo Insider. You can read more about her life before RHOBH here.

But something along the way changed for the Kung siblings. She’s now the newest cast member on RHOBH, and her brother, Jeffrey Kung, is a pop star in China. When Crystal spoke to The Daily Dish recently, she opened up a bit more about how he rose to pop prominence.

“When I say, it’s such a basic life, I know. When I think about that, I’m like, maybe it’s not that basic, but it’s really his life, you know? My brother went to Michigan [for school] and then studied abroad in China, which is what I did. I went to [University of California, Irvine] and then studied abroad,” she recalled, “And then he called us one day, and I was still in high school. He’s a year-and-a-half older, and he’s like, ‘Oh, I got a record deal.’ We’re like, ‘For what? You’re going to business school.’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t know. It happened.’ And and then next thing we know, he does a demo, does an album, and wins MTV Best New Artist Asia. And it just didn’t stop from there, and it’s been, god, 20 years now.”

Crystal shared that, in fact, his career as a pop star across the globe works perfectly as they collaborate on their coconut beverage brand. “But it’s funny. It’s like, even though that all happened, it’s still sort of out of sight, out of mind, because he lives in China and we’re here. That’s his life, and when this opportunity came up [for Real Coco], we started our coconut water company in Asia ‘cause we source everything from Southeast Asia, it just made sense,” she said. “So, he ran all the logistics of it, and I helped develop all the products. I create the new products, and it was just sort of a fun project on the side that sort of became a much bigger thing. My brother and I and my best friend, the three of us, we’re so close, and so it was such a fun thing to do that keeps us constantly connected.” – Source

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