Kimora Lee is also a playable character in the fighting game "Def Jam: Fight for NY". She has appeared in Ginuwine's video for "In Those Jeans" with model Devon Aoki and Usher's video for "Nice & Slow". Louis, Missouri which she recently visited for a meet and greet and a cosmetic conference. Simmons is a graduate of Lutheran High School North in St. She and three other Lagerfeld models ( Bernadette Jurkowski, Shoshanna Fitzgerald and Olga Sobolewska) were dubbed "the four Karlettes". By age 14, her stature had grown to a height of six feet, and she became a self-professed muse for Lagerfeld. "Everything people thought was weird about me before," Simmons told " People Weekly", "was now good". She quickly gained attention in the fashion world when Lagerfeld closed his haute couture show with Simmons, who strutted down the runway decked out as a child bride. Simmons was awarded an exclusive modeling contract with Chanel and just after her thirteenth birthday, to work under the tutelage of famed Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. Louis (organized by Kay Mitchell) and sent to Paris. Two years later, at the age of thirteen, she was discovered by Marie-Christine Kollock (a representative for seminal Paris Agency Glamour) at a Model Search in St. Hoping to boost her confidence, Simmons' mother enrolled her daughter in a modeling class when she was eleven years old. With no Asian population in her community, she had difficulty fitting in with the mostly black student body who shunned her because of her Asian ancestry. By the time she was 10 years old, she was 5-feet 8-inches tall, and became the target of schoolyard taunts and teasing. Louis suburb of Florissant, Simmons was very self-conscious about being a " geek." Other children called her " chinky giraffe" because of her height and Asian ancestry. Phoebe Eaton (June 14, 2004) "New York Magazine". He served three years for drug charges while Simmons was in grade school. Her father is African American Vernon Whitlock Jr., who previously worked as a federal marshal, a social security administrator, and then a barber in St.
] Her mother is Joanne Perkins (who was adopted by an American serviceman during the Korean War and renamed Joanne Perkins), who now goes by the Japanese name "Kyoko", which she asserts was her "full blooded Japanese mother's name. She is of Japanese and African American descent. "But black women don't look at me like that." "A number of them probably think Russell should be married to a black woman (rather than Afro-Asian)", Kimora says to Emil Wilbekin, the editorial director of Vibe magazine. "I consider myself to be one of the black women in fashion who made it", Kimora says. Simmons became CEO of Phat Fashions after her ex-husband Russell Simmons stepped down. Simmons' ancestry is African from her father and Japanese-Korean from her mother's side of the family.
] ) is an American model, author, the head of design for Baby Phat, KLS, a new line called Fabulosity, and is occasionally an actress. Kimora Lee Simmons (born Kimora Lee Perkins on (April 26, 2004) " People".
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