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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just like chanel iman
Chanel is only a quarter Korean and the rest is Black. So no, not just like Kimora
“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.”
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Which Makes Kimora Half Japanese Korean And Half African American.
http://drinkthis.typepad.com/answer_this/kimora_lee_simmons_parents/
NIce one Total. thanks
But How Comes You Never Put It Up?…Lol!
its up now
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.
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.
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.
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… :)
very true :)
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.