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Birth Name:
Kimora Lee Perkins
Birth Place:
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Ethnicity:
Korean Japanese and African American
Fashion designer and wife of record producer, Russell Simmons was born to an African–American Father and a Korean Japanese Mother who adopted by an American service man during the Korean war.
There is some debate regarding her Mother’s ancestry. Some say she is half Korean while others say she is full Japanese. Kimora maintains that her mother is full blooded Japanese who was a war refugee that moved to Korea.
Source:
http://drinkthis.typepad.com/answer_this/kimora_lee_simmons_parents/
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i couldn’t care less, the only thing that I think of when I think of Kimora is how annoying she is on the show…
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to that girl zolie who said obama looks totally black. I really don’t get why people say that?..if I saw the man walking down the street it would be plainly obvious that he is not just black. I’m Irish, and the blacks that are here are usually from africa hence meaning they are actually FULLY black. It seems you americans do not know what a fully black guy looks like if you are stupid enough to say that obama looks fully black. put obama beside his mother and his father and his skin colour is right in the middle, and facial features wise he resembles his mother way more than his father. I know many of you are going to rate this comment down for some strange reason, because it seems that anyone who says obama looks mixed race gets attacked on here lol
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I don’t really understand some of the comments posted here concerning Kimora. I’m not black, so am I missing something here? Why do some of you not consider Kimora to be black? Yeah, she considers herself black and japanese. She said so on the tyra show. I don’t think she is not owing her black half just because she is proud of her japanese heritage, too, by giving her daughters and son japanese names. Yes, she looks in appearance to have asiatic features, but that’s what happens when two races come together. A child can look more or less like both races in the family or one over the other. It’s genetics. I have a suspicion some of you would treat her differently and be like, “No, she’s just black” if she had the facial features of what you guys think black looks like.
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she looks kind of like partially MOngolian ,i mean just looks like
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She think she’s sooo black.
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I really like this sight. I have to grown daughters who are Afro-American (me the mother) and Nor-Swedish (father). It is nice to see others who are successful and multiracial.
Thank You for having this site available. You should also thank the celebs who let us know who and what they are.
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Black and east asian seem to mix very smoothly. They either end up looking like a tan asian (like Kimora) or a black person with almond shaped eyes (like Ameriie or Crystal Kay). Usually a very striking mix though.
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Kimora is ugly. Her neck looks like sausage rolls. However, Amerie and Sharon Leal are gorgeous. (:
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