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Kimora Lee Simmons (born Kimora Perkins on
May 3, 1975 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a former fashion model and the
head of design for Baby Phat.
Image:Kimora.jpgSimmons is the daughter of
a Japanese mother Joanne Perkins and African American father, Vernon
Whitlock, Jr., a former federal marshall who after serving time in jail,
is now a barber in St. Louis.
Kimora began her modeling career at age 13.
By the age of 10, she had grown to a height of 5 feet, 10 inches. By age
14, she had grown to a height of six feet, and became a self-professed
muse for Chanel's Karl Lagerfeld. As a child she was very self-conscious
about being biracial. Working as a model, however, her ethnic background
made her stand out. She is a graduate of Lutheran North High School in
St. Louis County, Missouri.
On December 20, 1998, she married hip-hop
mogul Russell Simmons. The Simmons' have two daughters: Ming Lee
Simmons, born January 21, 2000, and Aoki Lee Simmons, born August 16,
2002, both of whom model for Baby Phat Kids Collection. Russell Simmons
filed for divorce in March 2006, saying the couple had split some time
before.
Contrary to popular belief, Kimora Lee
Simmons is not the founder of the Baby Phat brand. Her husband Russell
actually founded the company himself as a counterpart to his Phat Farm
clothing line and named Kimora as creative director for the line.[1]
She was cast as one of the celebrity judges
on the reality series America's Next Top Model. A duel with Janice
Dickinson (in which Dickinson was severely lacerated about the neck)
forced her to leave the show after one season.
On July 29, 2004, Simmons was arrested
outside her estate in Upper Saddle River, NJ and charged with possession
of marijuana under 50 grams, eluding police, careless and imprudent
driving, and driving with a broken brake light. The arrest was made
after a two-mile chase that began near the Saddle River Police Station.
Her first and thus far only book,
Fabulosity, published by Judith Regan of HarperCollins's Regan Books,
was released on February 21, 2006. Recently, Simmons has designed a new
line of jewelry, called the Hello Kitty Collection. Simmons used the
Sanrio Hello Kitty logo on the face of all of these new accessories.
In the fall 2006, Kimora and Russell
Simmons ended their marriage but still work together on Phat Farm and
Baby Phat clothing lines
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Other media
Kimora Lee is a playable character in the
Playstation2 video game Def Jam Fight for NY.
She appeared in the films Waist Deep [2]
and Beauty Shop. [3], and also in Ginuwine's video In Those Jeans.
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