Kimora Lee Simmons Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Supermodel Kimora Lee Simmons estimated her sum net worth is about $50million. Kimora Lee Simmons should say thanks to her field as a model that help her to develop a fortune until today. Kimora Lee Simmons may not the best paid model on earth, but we understand that she’s been models with high enough flight hours.
Despite that Kimora additionally one of senior model that is spent her life present the trend set of high end brand that put her name among earth’s top-type models. And now even Kimora continues to be retired or reduce her action on the catwalk, but she’s still ha smany opportunity to acquire more cash, she demonstrated it by creating an urban fashion line of clothing named Baby Phat. Despite that Kimora Lee Simons also hired as president/Creative Director for the on-line fashion retailer, JustFab.
In 2004, Kimora Lee Simons was receiving about $140 million after selling KimoraLee line Phat Farm. Kimora’s mother is Korean ancestry but later she was embraced by American servicemen during the Korean War and then raised in America. Due the bullied state because her mom’s stature and mixed lineage, Kimora’s mother subsequently registered for modelling course when she 11 years old. At age of 13, Kimora was found by a representative for seminal Paris Bureau Glamour, Marie-Christine Kollock and then sent to Paris. After that Kimora Lee Simon was just contracted with Station and got popularity from it. Despite truly being a model, Kimora also appeared in some movies and televisions too.
Fashion designer, Model, Entrepreneur, Actor, Television producer
Education
Lutheran High School North
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Tim Leissner (m. 2013), Russell Simmons (m. 1998–2009)
Children
Ming Lee Simmons, Aoki Lee Simmons, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, Wolfe Lee Leissner
Parents
Vernon Whitlock Jr., Joanne Perkins
Siblings
Aoki Lee Simmons, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, Wolfe Lee Leissner, Ming Lee Simmons, Kenzo Lee Hounsou, Wolfe Lee Leissner
Partner
Djimon Hounsou
Nicknames
Kimora Lee Perkins , Kimora Simmons , Kimora , Kimora Lee , Kiimora Lee Simmons
Movies
Waist Deep, Rebound, Beauty Shop
TV Shows
America's Next Top Model, Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane, Life & Style
Star Sign
Taurus
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Fact
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Gave birth to her 4th child at age 39, a son named Wolfe Lee Leissner in April 2015. Child's father is her 2nd husband, Tim Leissner.
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Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 34, a son named Kenzo Lee Hounsou on May 30, 2009. Child's father is her now ex-boyfriend, Djimon Hounsou.
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Was in a relationship with Djimon Hounsou from 2007 to 2012. They have a son together.
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Has her own Reality TV Show called Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane (2007) on The E! Channel and Style Network. [October 2007]
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Creative Director of Baby Phat Clothing [March 2002]
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Creative Director of Baby Phat Clothing. [March 2002]
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Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 27, a daughter named Aoki Lee Simmons on August 16, 2002. Child's father is her now ex-1st husband, Russell Simmons.
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Gave birth to her 1st child at age 24, a daughter named Ming Lee Simmons on January 21, 2000. Child's father is her now ex-1st husband, Russell Simmons.
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Attended Lutheran High School North in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Tyra Banks is the godmother of her daughter Ming Lee
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She has an annual income of £ 9,400,000.
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Janice Dickinson wrote of a rivalry between herself and Kimora when they both were on America's Next Top Model (2003) in her book, "Everything about Me is Fake and I'm Perfect". Dickinson admits that she criticized Kimora's fake hair and nails, but says that she would have been much nicer if Kimora had shown up on time for filming.
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Although she is friends with model Devon Aoki and hired her for a Baby Phat ad campaign, she denies that her daughter Aoki is named after the model.
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She bought much of the artwork and furniture from Gianni Versace's estate after his murder.
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Once Karl Lagerfeld had transformed her into one of the world's top fashion models, he resented her attitude and called her a "$5,000-tote-bag- wearing monster."
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She and Karl Lagerfeld's three other fashion models Bernadette Jurkowski, Shoshanna Fitzgerald and Olga Sobolewska were dubbed "the four Karlettes".
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At thirteen, she had an exclusive contract modeling for Coco Chanel.
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Russell Simmons, whom she later married, sent bouquets of flowers to her agency to woo her. The bouquets were so large and heavy that they required two men to move them.
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Daughter of Vernon Whitlock Jr., who is black, and his wife, Joanne Perkins, who is half Korean, half Japanese.
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At fifteen, before she had her driver's license, she bought herself a secondhand BMW drop-top. She got into a car accident and had to have 40 stitches in her face.
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Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, other children called her "Chinky giraffe" because of her height and Asian ethnic ancestry.
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Her mother, Kyoko Perkins, is a former Social Security Administrator.
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Cites Red Lobster Restaurants the favorite eatery of her childhood.
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Is a client of nutritionist-to-the-stars, Oz Garcia.
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Kimora is half African-American, one quarter Korean and one quarter Japanese. Father Vernon Whitlock Jr is African-American and mother Joanne Kyoko Perkins is half Korean, half Japanese.