Kimora Lee Simmons
Kimora Lee Simmons in 2011, s_bukley / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Kimora Lee Perkins
Place of Birth: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Date of Birth: May 4, 1975
Ethnicity:
*father – African-American
*mother – Korean Japanese
Kimora Lee Simmons is an American entrepreneur, fashion designer, television personality, author, philanthropist, and model. She is also known by her current married name, Kimora Lee Leissner.
She was born to an African–American father and a Korean Japanese mother, who was adopted by an American service man during the Korean war. There is some debate regarding her mother’s ancestry. It has been written that she is of half Korean descent, while others say she that is of fully Japanese ancestry. Kimora has said that her mother is of fully Japanese descent, and was a war refugee who moved to Korea.
Kimora is married to banker Tim Leissner. She has five children, including two with her former husband, record producer Russell Simmons; a son with her former partner, actor and model Djimon Hounsou; and a son with Tim.
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funny…i think the POTUS looks exactly like a chocolate version of his white maternal grandfather, down to the chin. glad other people see it too.
i thought she was philipino and black
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…
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
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.
what stupid person would say she’s just black… plz reply to my comment so i can call u a complete dumb ass. no offense but she’s very tall and her mother is asian who is not 6’1/’2 her hair is more course than an asian person’s hair. but as for her facial features they look more asian than anythng. nonetheless she’s gorgeous and i do not think that she knocks her asian side, it’s just ppl like you who doubt that she’s black which is prolly why she says it a lot.