'I want to be myself': Denise Richards reveals why she chose casual wardrobe while filming 'RHOBH'

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Denise Richards opened up on why she decided to maintain a casual wardrobe during the filming of two seasons of the show 'Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.'

"I like watching it, too. I loved seeing what outfit Dorit [Kemsley] was going to show up in. That is not who I am. I do that for an event because, for me, it's work," said the actress.

"Dorit said, 'This is work.' I said, 'I didn't think of it that way.' I just thought of me going to dinner or lunch with my girlfriends," Richards added, according to OK Magazine.

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Speaking about her fashion choices, Richards said, "I am not going to wear a frickin ballgown in the Bahamas. She was right in the sense it was work."

"It's whatever image each woman wants to put out there of themselves. It's how they want to be perceived," Richards added.

"I don't know a lot of them outside the show, so for me, that's why I said to the producers involved in the show, 'I can be myself or I can be the actress Denise Richards and be glammed up the whole time and be treated like I am filming a scripted show, playing a part,'" the 52-year-old added.

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On Bethenny Frankel's podcast 'Just B with Bethenny Frankel', Richards said that despite some of the cast members who may have looked down on her sense of fashion, she wanted to be herself in the show.

"I said, 'I want to be myself. I want to go to lunch wearing jeans, or if I am in the Bahamas, I am wearing shorts. I am not going to wear a ballgown,'" the 'Killer Cheer Mom' actress said.

"Unless they said, 'Wear a ballgown.' I still wore my jeans. Actually, Kyle [Richards] called me a ragamuffin the second season. I still looked like a ragamuffin. I don't know if it aired or not," she added.

"The second season we were in Santa Barbara and they were talking about some s**t about my clothes, and I am like, 'So what?,'" Richards stated.

"If I decided to get hair and makeup — I did do that a few times — I didn't want to look like s**t. I don't want to look at myself on TV and look like a piece of s---. I treated it like reality. I wanted to be myself and this is who I was. I did glam more my second season, but I didn't dress in ballgowns," she added.