Mary Amons, one of the five women of “The Real Housewives of D.C.,” says this show is “a little different” from all the other “Real Housewives” series popping up like mushrooms on the Bravo network.

She says the Washington, D.C., edition is not about “cat fights or drama.”

She also stresses that fellow cast member Michaele Salahi and husband Tareq’s White House party-crashing adventure in November is “just going to be one small snippet” of the show.

“Our producers were more interested in featuring these five ladies and what they do and bring to the city,” Amons said. “I think that the American public is going to be really interested and inspired.”

But Amons also acknowledges, while participating in a media conference call to promote the launch of the show, that she hasn’t seen any of the finished product yet.

“I’m excited to see how it all comes together,” she said.

Suffice it to say that she’s in for a big surprise.

“The Real Housewives of D.C.” delivers precisely the kind of decadently tacky take on rich and privileged lifestyles that fans of the franchise have come to expect. And if the first episode is any indication, it is absolutely not the show that Amons and fellow D.C. “housewife” Stacie Turner apparently believed they were making.

Says Turner, who also had not seen any of the show: “We have some really important, provocative, substantive conversations about issues, like political issues and other issues that haven’t been explored as fully in some of the other franchises. That’s where it’s different, and I found that really exciting.”

In the premiere episode, Amons, a lobbyist’s daughter who grew up “hanging out” with members of the Kennedy clan, drunkenly tells Turner, the show’s only African-American cast member, that D.C. hair salons need to integrate. “We have different hair, different needs,” Amons posits to reactions of eye-rolling and jaw-dropping from party guests, “but why do we need to be in different salons?”

That is about as important, provocative and substantive as the discussion gets.

Also in the first episode, Cat Ommanney, a British newcomer to D.C., trashes President Obama and Tyra Banks during a get-together at the Turner house. Stacie and her other invited friends are clearly upset by the comments … because they absolutely love Tyra.

Amons and Turner both say they had reservations when contacted last year to appear in the show.

“I got the call out of the blue from a producer,” Turner said. “My reaction was probably like most: ‘I watch it, but I’m not trying to be the subject of it.’ And I said no.”

But once assured that the producers had “a different vision” for the D.C. show, Turner signed on.

Amons, meanwhile, did “some real soul-searching” before allowing a production crew to shadow her every move for five months of filming. “It’s a risk to expose your reality and your home life,” she said.

“We’ll just have to develop tough skins along the way,” Turner adds, “because it’s hard when people are talking about you and what you do.”

They are about to find out how true these statements are.

The one “housewife” who most likely will have no objections to the way she is depicted, meanwhile, is Salahi.

“Michaele is a very friendly, lighthearted, outgoing person,” Turner said. “She’s just a social butterfly. Whereas it may seem contrived, I think that’s really her.”

‘The Real Housewives of D.C.’

When: 9 p.m. Thursday

Where: Bravo