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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.
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http://drinkthis.typepad.com/answer_this/kimora_lee_simmons_parents/
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just like chanel iman
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Chanel is only a quarter Korean and the rest is Black. So no, not just like Kimora
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“Joanne Perkins was born into the chaos of the Korean War and later adopted by an American serviceman who had spotted her mother filling sandbags in Inchon. Joanne maintains that her “full-blooded Japanese” mother went to Korea from Kyoto as a refugee during World War II, though this would make her a historical anomaly. There were few, if any, refugees from Kyoto, since it was never bombed, and those who left for Korea at the war’s end were invariably ethnic Koreans who were repatriating.
Joanne Perkins worked as an administrator for Social Security and has retired to a house in East Hampton that Kimora bought for her. Perkins now calls herself by her mother’s name, Kyoko, baffling longtime acquaintances.”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46877147@N00/57933907/
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Which Makes Kimora Half Japanese Korean And Half African American.
http://drinkthis.typepad.com/answer_this/kimora_lee_simmons_parents/
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NIce one Total. thanks
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But How Comes You Never Put It Up?…Lol!
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its up now
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Her mother was born to full Korean parents who moved to Japan. She is NOT Japanese maybe by nationality through naturalization but not by origin. I saw a documentary years ago when Kimora was starting out as a model but I guess some how living in Japan suddenly makes you “Japanese”??? For some reason I guess Kimora thinks that she is Japanese because she never states that she is Korean.
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unfortunately some people like to choose an ethnicity that seems more appealing to them. If she is actually just Korean Id be proud to admit that.
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Wow, you have it all backwards.
Her mother was a pure-blooded *Japanese* woman, who settled in *korea* because of the war. She is Japanese by blood, and moved to Korea. Not the other way around.
Kimora *is* Japanese by blood.
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Who didn’t know she was black??? LOL. Everyone can trace back to Africa anyway…it would just be VERY difficult for some…but Africa is where the human race began… :)
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very true :)
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just because a black man found kimora’s mother pretty does’nt mean that asians are not ugly. I mean, i don’t find asian ppl ugly at all, but we can’t prove that asian ppl are not ugly just because of a black man who found an asian women pretty, it’s ridiculous, and what does that mean??? If a white man, or an asian man, find an asian girl pretty, it doesn’t count ???
COLOR, i agree with you when you say asian ppl are not ugly, but your argument is quite dumb, sorry.
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people say asians are ugly if so how come some black man thought kimora mom was a beautiful women, therfore suming it up asians are not ugly
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for the most part I dont think African Americans think asia people are ugly!
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what a cutie
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i finally saw photos of kimora’s new baby !!!!! he’s sooo cute !!!!!!
http://crookfromthebrook.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kimora-djimon-kenzo-1.jpg?w=400&h=566
http://crookfromthebrook.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/kimora-djimon-kenzo-2.jpg
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Ok, I got you,but the funny thing is each one of those you mention,Id themselves as black;so I think their the dumb ones.
here’s something funny to me,you take 100 black americans,put them in a room.Then ask,anyone who isn’t full black,leave.You know you would probably have 99% of the room leaving .So when they say things like he/she isn’t black,would they please tell me who is?Because all my life,I thought I was a black person,now according to other peoples comments;I’m not
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Who continues to promote this idea that Africans in America are 99% mixed… WE ARE THE ORIGINAL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH AND NORTH AMERICA…
So how is it that if my great grand parents, grand parents and parents are all African Americans, how is a person not BLACK!
That theory is full of shit!
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In france, when a mixed black/white person get huge success, the person is automatically considered as “non-black”, and when this same person get scandalous, the person is considered as “black” only : it’s sooo unfair !!!
When Barack Obama won the elections, white french ppl were so annoyed and jealous that they kept on saying “Black ppl are so dumb, barack obama isn’t black anyways”
It’s true, but in france ppl like barack obama are described mostly by their non black side than they black side, which is (for me) the most obvious. And it’s the same for alicia keys when she won the grammy award and for halle berry when she won the academy award.
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