5.Melissa Rycroft – $1.5 million
The next person who became rich out off reality TV is Melissa Rycroft.
Rycroft has made a career out of reality TV, her starring in a lot of shows as: the thirteenth season of ABC’s The Bachelor, the CMT reality TV series Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team and on the eighth and fifteenth seasons of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars.
It seems like being in as many TV shows as possible is a way of living, Rycroft being worth approximatively $1.5 million.
The star is now married to business man Tye Strickland, the couple having two children.
After having her first child, Melissa suffered from severe post-partum depression, but she recovered with the help of her friends and through therapy.
She got really rich just by appearing in some TV shows ->