Background and career
Natalie Tynika Nunn (born December 26, 1984) is an American reality television personality, executive producer, rapper, and former collegiate soccer athlete. She is best known for her appearance on the fourth season of Oxygen network's reality television series Bad Girls Club. As of 2021, Nunn has been the executive producer and the main cast member of Zeus network's series Baddies.
Nunn was born on December 26, 1984, in Concord, California, to parents Earl and Karen Nunn. She has a brother, Ronald. She attended Aragon High School in San Mateo, California and graduated from the University of Southern California. Nunn ran track for her high school's track team, competing in the 2002 USATF Junior Olympics. She attended the University of Southern California on a full soccer scholarship, playing as a defender on the Trojan's Women's Soccer team, with five appearances for them during the 2004 season.
In 2009, Nunn made her first television appearance on the fourth season of Bad Girls Club, which at the time of its premiere was the highest-rated premiere in Oxygen's history. She got into a physical altercation with fellow cast member Portia Beaman in Episode 4. On Episode 11, Nunn got into a physical altercation with fellow cast members Amber McWha, Lexie Woltz and Kendra James during a road-trip to Santa Barbara, California, and was removed from the show. During her time on the show, she coined the phrase "I Run L.A!". She became popular in media due to her large chin, which has become a meme in modern pop culture. She made further guest appearances in seasons 5, 6 and 11 of the show. She co-hosted the Bad Girls Club Top 10 OMG Moments seasons 1-5 special. In 2011, she was a contestant on the second season of the Bad Girls Club spin-off, Love Games: Bad Girls Need Love Too. She placed second overall, losing to season 5 cast member, Lea Beaulieu. Nunn made a guest appearance on the third season of the series. In 2012, she was featured in the Oxygen series Tanisha Gets Married, serving as a bridesmaid alongside Amber Meade and Florina Kaja for former fellow bad girl Tanisha Thomas' wedding. Later that year, her own wedding was broadcast on television to her current husband, Arizona Rattlers Arena Football League player Jacob Payne. Their wedding was broadcast on the We TV show Bridezillas, they made an appearance on The Bill Cunningham Show to discuss the wedding. Nunn went on to host her own talk show, The Tea Party with Natalie Nunn on Filmon TV. In 2013, she began co-hosting the Bad Girls Club, Making it to the Mansion specials alongside season 8 cast member, Camilla Poindexter. She also co-hosted the Bad Girls Club Top 10 OMG Moments seasons 6-10 special. She later appeared on the first season of the spin-off Bad Girls All Star Battle, where she placed fifth overall, which was the most watched Oxygen television series with 1.73 million viewers. In 2014, she was a cast member on the thirteenth series of Bad Girls Club: Redemption, which was a season featuring all star bad girls from the previous twelve series. She was removed in the fourth episode after a physical altercation with Alyssa Carswell and Raquel Santiago, which during the fight she was bitten by Carswell. In 2015, she was a cast member on We TV's Marriage Boot Camp: Reality Stars 2 alongside her husband, Jacob. She also was a cast member on the Lifetime reality series Mother/Daughter Experiment with her mother, Karen. In 2018, she was a housemate in the twenty-second series of Celebrity Big Brother UK. She feuded with majority of her fellow housemates and was labelled as a "bully" by the British public, she was the first housemate evicted on Day 9. After her controversial appearance on the show she was interviewed on the The Wright Stuff. She made other television appearances throughout the years, including on Braxton Family Values, Couples Court, Hair Battle Spectacular, The Ricki Lake Show and The Tyra Banks Show. In 2020, she appeared on the Zeus network web series, The Conversation. She made appearances on other Zeus original shows. In 2021, she became the creator, executive producer and main cast member of the reality web series Baddies. She also created and was the executive producer of Bad Boys. Nunn appeared in music videos including Na Atividade by Bonde da Stronda. She has been referenced by artists in their lyrics, including by Nicki Minaj and Ceechynaa who both made fun of the length of Nunn's chin. In 2025, she began releasing music with her first single titled Baddie Bad. She released a second single titled Doin What I Want,which trended on the social media platform, TikTok. In 2026, she performed the single at Coachella. She was featured in John Mack's single Pose for Me, which also trended on TikTok and hit the Billboard Hot 100.
In 2009, during the premier episode of the fourth season of Bad Girls Club, Nunn told fellow cast member Annie Andersen that Chris Brown was at a night club she wanted to attend, she asked Andersen if she was a fan. Andersen responded saying no, due to the domestic violence case Brown was involved in. Nunn defended Brown, saying "Who cares, Rihanna was a punk bitch, and she got her ass beat for a reason". Nunn called Rihanna a "crazy bitch" and claimed to know her, unlike Andersen. After the episode aired, Brown claimed he did not know who Nunn was. In 2024, Nunn was accused of abusing and drugging a fan named Thomas Grimes.
On May 27, 2013, Nunn released an 74-page autobiography titled Turn Down for What. Nunn dated Olamide Faison from 2003 to 2009. She has also been linked to Chris Brown, Rihanna's cousin and Shaquille O'Neal. In 2012, she married her husband Jacob Payne. In November 2014, she revealed they were expecting their first child. In February 2015, she revealed that she suffered from a miscarriage. In late 2016, she announced that she was pregnant again. On April 16, 2017, the couple welcomed their first daughter.
