A savvy businesswoman who turned her modeling career in the late eighties into a fashion empire. Growing up in St Louis, she was ridiculed at school because of her height.
We’re talking about the one and only: Kimora Lee Simmons.
Before she was 12 years old, Kimora was already towering at 5 foot & 11 inches.
She attended modeling class as a way of boosting her confidence.
Kimora Lee Simmons was picked up by an agent from the Paris Agency Glamour via a modeling competition.
Early Catwalk
Her first modeling job was with Chanel under the guardianship of Karl Lagerfeld.
She took up the role of a show closer at his 1989 fashion show.
The Chanel catwalk helped her gain massive media coverage within the fashion industry and beyond.
She was able to work with a lot of designers such as Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent as a result.
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Fashion Designer
Kimora worked briefly as the creative director for Baby Phat – a brand she helped made iconic with her high-end sports line KLS.
She also managed other fashion lines such as Couture by Kimora and Fabulosity.
For under a year, Kimora worked as the Creative Director and President of JustFab.
Recently relaunching her brand KLS: a high end fashion line aimed at well-heeled women.
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TV Appearances
She has starred in several reality shows and music videos.
Kimora made guest appearances on America’s Next Top Model, MTV’s Fashionably Loud, and co-hosted the Life & Style talk show.
Her reality series titled Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane chronicled the daily life of herself, her three children Ming, Aoki, and Kenzo, and a handful of her employees.
The second reality show Kimora: House of Fab was a spin-off of her time at Justfab.
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Family Life & Philanthropy
Kimora is a mother to two teenage girls and two boys.
She was once married to Russell Simmons; the founder of Phat Farm Inc.
Along with her ex-husband, the two have two children together: Ming Lee Simmons and Aoki Lee Simmons.
Later, the couple divorced.
Dating actor and model Djimon Hounsou after the split, they had one child together named Kenzo Lee Hounsou, but later broke up.
Kimora married investment banker Tim Leissner in 2014, and then welcomed a son Wolfe Lee Leissner.
She set up the Kimora Lee Simmons Scholarship Fund at her high school alma mater in St. Louis with an aim to aid college tuition support for academically successful girls with financial needs.
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