Kimora Lee Simmons
American model
Kimora Lee (née Perkins, formerly Simmons; born May 4, 1975) is an American fashion designer, television personality and former fashion model. Discovered as a teenager, she was signed to Chanel and went on to walk the runway for major fashion houses such as Fendi and Valentino and appeared on the covers of Vogue and Elle. She launched the global lifestyle brand Baby Phat in 1999. She ventured into reality television alongside her family, starring in the Style Network reality series Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane (2007–11), Kimora: House of Fab (2013), and currently in Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane (2025–present).
Early life
Kimora Lee Perkins was born in St. Louis to an African-American father and a Japanese-Korean mother. Growing up in the northern St. Louis suburb of Florissant, Missouri, Simmons was a frequent target of bullying at school. Because of her height – 5'10" (177.8 cm) by age ten – and multiethnic background, Simmons struggled to find confidence and felt, in her own words, "different." In an effort to bolster Kimora's confidence, Kimora's mother enrolled her in modeling classes when she was eleven years old. Two years later, Simmons attended a model search event in Kansas City, where she was discovered by the event's organizer, Marie-Christine Kollock, an agent from the prominent Paris modeling agency, Glamour.
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