Kimora Lee Simmons - Biography

Last Editor: flaiying-mika				Kimora Lee Simmons Biography -   Name : Kimora Lee Simmons Profession : Model/Designer Birth Details : May 3, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri Height : 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) Hair color : Black Eye color : Brown Spouse(s) : Russell Simmons (1998-2009)

Kimora Lee Simmons Trivia -

Best friend (who also served as maid of honor at Kimora's wedding) is model/actress Tyra Banks. She has two daughters, Ming Lee Simmons (born January 21, 2000) and Aoki Lee Simmons (born in 2002). Both are models for Baby Phat Clothing. Daughter-in-law of Daniel Simmons, sister-in-law of Joseph Simmons. 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. Is a client to nutritionist-to-the-stars, Oz Garcia. Cites Red Lobster Restaurants the favorite eatery of her childhood. Her mother, Kyoko Perkins, is a former Social Security Administrator. Growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, other children called her "Chinky giraffe" because of her height and Asian ethnic ancestry. 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. Daughter of Vernon Whitlock Jr., who is black, and his wife, Joanne Perkins, who is half Korean, half Japanese. 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. At thirteen, she had an exclusive contract modeling for Coco Chanel. She and Karl Lagerfeld's three other fashion models Bernadette Jurkowski, Shoshanna Fitzgerald and Olga Sobolewska were dubbed "the four Karlettes". 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." She bought much of the artwork and furniture from Gianni Versace's estate after his murder. 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. 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. She has an annual income of £ 9,400,000. Tyra Banks is the godmother of her daughter Ming Lee Attended Lutheran High School North in St. Louis, Missouri. Her fiancé is Djimon Hounsou. Expecting her third child, and her first with Djimon Hounsou, due late 2009. Has a son, born May 30, 2009, with Djimon Hounsou.

Kimora Lee Simmons Detailed Biography -

Kimora Lee Simmons (born May 3, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a fashion designer and former model, and the wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons. The couple shares an elaborate estate in Saddle River, New Jersey, with their two daughters, Ming Lee (born January 21, 2000) and Aoki Lee (born August 16, 2002), who both model for Baby Phat Clothing. Simmons was born to a Japanese-Korean mother, Joanne "Kyoko" Perkins, and African American father, Vernon Whitlock Jr. and was very self-conscious as a child about being bi-racial. She began her modeling career at age 13 with her mother's encouragement and hope of instilling self-confidence in her daughter. By age 14, she had grown to a height of six feet and become a muse for The House of Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld. Contrary to popular belief, the fashionista is not the founder of the Baby Phat brand, which first came into existence as a publicity tool for her husband's Phat Farm clothing line. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons produced tiny tees with the clever name "Baby Phat" to electrify his men's Phat Farm runway shows. When celebrities and models such as Tyra Banks and Claudia Schiffer started wearing these tees, they became such a phenomenon that the decision was made to launch an entire Baby Phat collection. He brought his wife on board as creative director. She was one of the celebrity judges on the reality series America's Next Top Model. On July 26, 2004, Simmons was arrested outside their estate in Saddle River for eluding an officer, marijuana possession, cocaine possession, and careless driving after a two mile chase that began near the Saddle River Police Station. Her first book, Fabulosity, published by Judith Regan of Simon & Shuster's Regan Books, was released on February 21, 2006.