Christine Quinn on Manifesting Success & Feeling 'Like a Fraud' for Not Graduating High School

Christine Quinnis opening up about her hard-earned road to success.

Today, the luxury real estate agent-turned-reality star is on top of the world: She’ll appear inseason 4 ofSelling Sunset(streaming on Netflix Nov. 24), she has a new makeup collection with Ciaté London, andher first book,How to Be a Boss Bitch, is due in May 2022.

But “I did not come from this glamorous lifestyle,” Quinn, 33, says in the new issue of PEOPLE.

Christine Quinn in her glam room.DIANA KOENIGSBERG

Growing up in the Dallas, Texas, area, Quinn was home-schooled as a teen so that she could spend time with her mother, who was undergoing treatment for cancer. When her parents couldn’t teach her at home anymore, she went to an alternative school. However, after a brush with the law — shespent four days in jailfor marijuana possession — Quinn never graduated high school or earned her GED.

While she never completed a formal education, Quinn learned — working everywhere from Walmart to Taco Bell — that “being a hustler and having a great work ethic is the most important thing,” she says.

Christine Quinn, husband Christian Richard and their son Christian in their living room.DIANA KOENIGSBERG

“My career was always about manifestation,” Quinn says. “I wanted to be in these beautiful houses so desperately, and I knew, one day, I would live in one.”

Now that she does, Quinn says, “I feel like we’re living the dream.”

For more on Christine Quinn, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere now.

source: people.com