5 Details About Porsha Williams’ New Man Dennis McKinley You May Not Know

Porsha Williams quest for a real love has finally come to an end. After dealing with a highly publicized 2013 divorce and ups and downs with men on “The Real Housewives of Atlanta,” a new boyfriend has emerged in the form of Dennis McKinley. Below are five things to know about Williams’ new boo.

He’s a serial entrepreneur

A glimpse of McKinley’s Instagram page, where his handle is @workwincelebrate, reveals the businessman is a serial entrepreneur. He’s had his hand in businesses in his native Detroit and Atlanta, including Cru Hookah Lounge and The Original Hot Dog Factory.

Porsha Williams

(@porsha4real/Instagram)

She hid him from the public for a long time

Williams wouldn’t identify her man in public for the longest time, explaining on “Dish Nation” this month that they’d been going out for six months before they began following one another on social media. She also only ever called him out by his initials #DM and even hid him in her birthday celebration posts online.

Williams met him when she finally stopped searching

On an earlier “Dish Nation” segment, Williams admitted she had given up on love when she met McKinley.

“It always when you’re not looking anymore,” Williams said on the show last month. “It’s when you go ahead and give up … I stopped looking and he arrived.”

He’s gotten in good with the family

McKinley wasted no time meeting one of the women his girlfriend holds dear. Williams posted a photo of herself sitting alongside her mother while they FaceTimed with him and her mother, Diane, earlier this month.

He’s not that much older than Williams

Williams gave her man a birthday shout out on July 25, just a few days after she turned 37 on July 22. So not only are the two lovebirds’ birthdays just three days apart, but he’s also almost exactly a year older than his girl at 38.

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