Eva Marcille Sterling Net Worth Reveal

The Real Housewives of Atlanta don't choose their people out for nothing. And after a stellar career as a model and actress, reality TV didn't come out as something new for Eva Marcille Sterling at all. She knows how the reality world works as she's not new to it, with her net worth already on the up before joining the show.

Born Eva Marcille Pigford on October 30, 1984 [age 35], in Los Angeles, California, she joined the RHOA cast in 2018 during its tenth season as a friend through NeNe Leakes [net worth: $14 million] and made it to the main cast list in the 11^th season of the Bravo TV show. BTW, her middle name Marcille is a combination of her two grandmothers' names, "Marjorie" and "Lucille".

Eva Marcille arrives at the Maxim Hot 100 Party on July 30, 2016, in Los Angeles, California.
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Despite leaving college in the middle of the study at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, it might've been the best thing she's done in her life as making the decision at 19 after winning the third season of America's Next Top Model became a stepping stone for her in the TV glamour world. With that, you could rest assured her net worth is no exaggeration.

Eva Marcille Collected Her Net Worth of $4.5 Million with Modeling and TV Jobs Side by Side

As of April 2020, RHOA star Eva Marcille controls an estimated net worth of $4.5 million. As soon as she left college to continue the CoverGirl cosmetics contract she got as the grand prize for Amerca's Next Top Model, she took the chances to take her TV career side by side with modeling.

Marcille earned quite a lot in her early days as a model.
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Eva went with the name Eva Marcille Pigford when she was modeling under the management of duo Benny Medina and Tyra Banks. She was already getting those acting roles well before her decision, but she did decide to drop her last name and just go with Eva Marcille after leaving Medina and Bankes in November 2006 to go under new management. She did it to get a new recognition as an actress with that latter name and still use the former one when modeling.

Before Real Housewives — Modeling & Acting

That net worth value is justified by how she is so active in the glamour world. She boasted a diva attitude before the finale of America's Next Top Model in December 2004 but won the competition nonetheless, beating Camara "Yaya" Da Costa Johnson with the Noriko Fukushima runway show. With that, she won a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl, a fashion spread in Elle and the opportunity to be managed by Ford Models.

It became quite a huge stepping stone for her in the glamour world as she left college and took a big stance in the modeling industry. Apart from CoverGirl, she's also featured in several other magazines and brand advertisements, including, but not limited to, Samsung, Jewel, WeTheUrban, UNleashed, Star Magazine, Elle, Elle Girl, AppleBottoms, Lerner Catalog, and Rolling Out. She's also been on the cover of Brides Noir [Sept. 2006], Women's Health and Fitness [May 2005], King [June 2005], IONA [November 2005], and Essence [Jul. 2005].

Mrs. Sterling is shining with her net worth.
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Eva's modeling career was spiking in the second half of the 2000s, as she appeared as part of several fashion shows. But she seems to put more focus on acting and reality TV since 2008/09, going under Eva Marcille only and signing with LA Models. But her time on TV started just as she won the Top Model competition. And a year later, so did the publicity of her personal life.

She first appeared on a February 2005 episode of Kevin Hill. Roles just started rolling in on movies and guest roles in several TV series. Her longest-running role was in the critically-acclaimed The Young and the Restless in 2008-09, which she got nominated for two NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama Series, with notables roles in House of Payne & Born Again Virgin. In movies, the most notable ones include The Walk, Crossover and I Think I Love My Wife. She also won a Young Hollywood Award.

Marcille was nominated for two awards, if that's new to you.
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As for reality TV, apart from those appearances in various talk shows, she's first been a part of Black Poker Stars Invitational in 2008 & About the Business in 2016 and then competed in the first season of VH1's Scared Famous in 2017. She's also been a guest or a co-host in several other competitive shows, returning to America's Next Top Model in quite a few episodes after winning the thing.

These days, the only modeling she does is on social media. But yeah, she's letting people know of her family life more often than modeling. Still, at times, she'll also sponsor products from certain brands on Instagram. With 3.8 million followers and over 7,650 posts, she does earn about $10,200 from each of her posts through sponsorships, a little insignificant to her reality TV earnings.