"I loved Dorit [Kemsley] when I first met her, and then it was hard to get to know her. Because I didn't have a lot of time, one on one with her

"I loved Dorit [Kemsley] when I first met her, and then it was hard to get to know her. Because I didn't have a lot of time, one on one with her in the fall," Stracke tells E!. "It surprised me because I thought, 'Oh, we're going to be fast friends,' and then it just didn't happen. It was a slow friendship. And kind of the same with Garcelle [Beauvais]. I think we were both so busy getting to know all the other girls that we didn't get to know one another as quickly as maybe we should have. And I'm so glad that we've gotten to have moments together. So she's great."

One lady Stracke was instantly drawn to: Erika Jayne.

"I didn't know her but I'm like, I get you," Stracke, who hails from Georgia just like Jayne, reveals. "I knew that tough Southern Steel Magnolias exterior has a really soft, gooey brownie inside. And that's totally what I got from her. She's a sweetheart."

Stracke also says she "clicked" with Richards from the first episode when they hung out at New York Fashion Week ("I think during that moment we sort of got each other").