Inside Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann's rollercoaster romance trends now

Kim Zolciak and Kroy Biermann shocked the world on Monday as it was revealed the pair had split following 11 years of marriage.

The reality star, 44, and the former NFL player, 37, had a famously whirlwind romance, getting engaged and conceiving their first child within three months of meeting in May 2010.

The pair went on to welcome three more children together, with every high and low of their steamy romance documented for the cameras on hit reality show Don't Be Tardy.

Together, the pair dished on their racy sex life, built businesses and battled numerous financial issues, culminating in  the pair reportedly owing the IRS $1.1. million in unpaid taxes.

As the pair go their separate ways after 13 years - DailyMail.com looks back at their extremely public romance... 

MAY 2010 - LUST AT FIRST SIGHT AND BRIEF SPLIT

The worlds of reality and football collide as the pair first meet  at charity event Dancing Stars of Atlanta - with their first encounter captured on camera for season three of Real Housewives of Atlanta.

A cheeky Kim's first comment to her future husband was: 'I’ve never in my life seen an ass like that.

'I just had to tell you. Adorable. 

'But again I didn't really think anything. I just thought, 'Wow he's got a really cute butt and a million-dollar smile. I love big wide smiles. His energy was great, but 'OK, I'm filming, I'm working, I gotta go' and that was my mindset."

The racy remark went down well with Atlanta Falcons star Biermann - with the pair sparking up a romance shortly afterwards.

As she was filming RHOA at the time, the pair opted to keep their romance a secret, which resulted in numerous surreptitious meetings.

As a result, more press coverage of the new couple began to weigh on the 24-year-old Kroy, who was in the midst of his NFL career.

Finally things became too much for Kroy, and he texted her a break-up message from a pre-season game in Florida.

Hey, just wanted to let you know it might be in our best interests to go our separate ways,' he texted the reality star.

The missive caught Kim off guard, and when she asked 'Why, what's up,' Kroy only replied with 'it just is what it is.'

Wracked with frustration, she remembered thinking ''It just is what it is.' I was like, this a**hole! Well, f*** him then! I don't need him.'

Despite the hostile feelings, apparently Kim felt awful after the exchange.

It seems Kroy did as well, as he ended up sending the reality star flowers with the message 'can we talk?'

MAY 2011 - FIRST SON IS BORN AND ENGAGEMENT

A little over a year since their first meeting, the pair's first son Kroy Jagger (KJ) is born, with Kroy proposing just days later.

She wrote online: 'I am happy to announce that YES @biermann71 and I are engaged! I’m on a cloud and so blessed!!.'

NOVEMBER 2011 - WEDDING BELLS AND REALITY TV 

The pair wed on 11/11/11 at their Atlanta home in a ceremony documented for Bravo special, Don't Be Tardy For the Wedding.

The couple sent  Tweets to each other on their big day, with Zolciak retweeting a message from Biermann: 'Thank u everyone 4 your early congrats and best wishes!!! @Kimzolciak has made me the happiest man alive!!! 11.11.11.

She responded: 'I love u.'

Kroy later adopted Kim's two daughters from her previous relationships, Brielle, now 26, and Ariana, 21. 

Kim said at the time: 'I don't know if I could love anybody else's children as much as Kroy loves the girls

'I just don't know if I have it in me.

AUGUST 2012/NOVEMBER 2013 - FAMILY EXPANDS

Nine months after their wedding, the couple welcome their second son Kash. The family grows once again with the arrival of twins Kane and Kaia in 2013, completing their family.

Zolciak wrote: 'We are officially the 'Biermann Bunch' now! Guess what?!!! The twins have arrived! We welcomed first a baby girl and second a handsome little boy! They are both healthy and Kroy and I are so thankful!!

Sharing the twins' names, she wrote: 'Girl: Kaia Rose (after 'psychic' Rose who is like a grandma to me and been a huge part of my life for 13 plus yrs) also the twins were born on Rose's birthday!

'Boy: Kane Ren (Ren after my OBGYN who has delivered 5 of the 6 kiddos, who has also been a big part of my life for 12 yrs and we simply adore him).'

The pair's often chaotic home life would be documented in eight seasons of reality show, Don't Be Tardy, which ran from 2012-2020.

Kroy had a vasectomy after their last pregnancy and Kim was advised to freeze her eggs. 

MAY 2013 -  CHEATING ALLEGATIONS

A woman came forward to claim that she was in a relationship with Kroy in the days when he started dating Kim.

Elizabeth Seward, a model and former cheerleader, claimed to In Touch Weekly that she was involved with Kroy in 2010, when he was courting Kim.‘I want Kim to know about it,’ Elizabeth told the publication. ‘The manipulation and the lies.’

According to Elizabeth, she met Kroy at a party in Indianapolis in January 2010, and things quickly got serious between the pair.

‘It was this whirlwind, love-at-first-sight thing,’ Elizabeth recalled.

She had moved to Las Vegas by July, but Kroy apparently was still smitten and even flew her out to Indianapolis where he was training at the time.

Elizabeth claims that Kroy told her ‘everything you’d want to hear. “You’re my girlfriend. We’re going to make this work.”’

But things allegedly down-spiralled when Elizabeth saw pictures of Kim and Kroy looking cosy at the wedding of Kim’s former co-star Cynthia Bailey just days after returning from the amorous trip.

And when she questioned Kroy about his relationship with Kim, he allegedly told her, “She’s a friend.”

But a source told the magazine that Kroy was just enjoying single life and didn’t do anything wrong.

‘[Kim] left Housewives because she wanted peace, and now this woman is trying to wreck her happy home life,’ the source said.

‘Kroy was never serious about Elizabeth – he was young and single and playing the field.’

The insider added: ‘It wasn’t betrayal. It was just the normal thing that happens when someone is dating and finally falls for someone.

‘The other people get left behind, and sometimes they get hurt.’

2014 - FINANCIAL WOES BEGIN 

The pair's lavish Atlanta mansion was threatened with foreclosure for the first time back in 2014, according to an October report by Page Six.

However, Kim and  Kroy paid off of their outstanding debts to get their home out of the danger.

At the time of the foreclosure threat, they reportedly owed $10,567.67. The foreclosure threat was delivered two years after the home was purchased in 2012.

In 2014, the same year as the foreclosure troubles, Kim admitted on her Real Housewives Of Atlanta spin-off series that she had serious gambling issues.

She admitted to losing a shocking $250,000 while gambling in the Bahamas, and in the same episode she admitted to spending $1,240 on scratch-off tickets while stopped at a gas station amid a road trip to Florida, because Georgia had no casinos to take care of her need to gamble.

2016 - STEAMY SEX CONFESSIONS AND NAKED PHOTO

In just one of many overshares committed by the couple, Kim posted a fully nude photo of hunky Kroy brushing his teeth which she hand censored herself.

His wife used the green scribble tool to censor out his private parts but did choose to leave part of his derriere in it.

She captioned the revealing shot: 'My baby! Don't you wish beyotches.'

'That's never been a problem,' Kim previously boasted about her sex life with Kroy.

'We just find the time, even with six hours of home schooling that he does - because I quit like a week in - but he's been doing it for five weeks...'

She was asked where the craziest place she has had sex and the answer was not only very revealing.