Jill Zarin

About

Jill Zarin is an American television personality. She is best known as an original cast member on the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City, in which she starred from 2008 to 2011.

Zarin was born in Woodmere, New York to Saul and Gloria Kamen. She graduated from Simmons University in 1985 with a degree in retail management.
Upon graduating, Zarin became an assistant buyer at Filene’s department store, and later the Vice President of Great American Knitting Mills. In 2008, Zarin was announced as one of five women cast to appear in the Bravo network reality series, The Real Housewives of New York City, the second installment Bravo’s Real Housewives franchise. According to Jill, she was approached by a producer after they saw a picture of her, her husband Bobby, and her daughter Ally on the New York Social Diary website, and asked if she was interested in doing a reality show based on “glamorous Manhattan moms and their children,” to which she agreed in order to gain exposure for her and her husband’s fabric store, Zarin Fabric Warehouse.
In 2010, Zarin published the book Secrets of a Jewish Mother with her mother and sister. The…