Kimora Lee Simmons on The Today Show
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More Kimora news - you know you love it.
A couple readers had told us about Kimora Lee Simmons appearing on The Today Show last week but neither Jen nor I caught it. Now thanks to the wonders of YouTube, you can watch it for yourself! Click here for the video.
Kimora was on mainly to plug her new book Fabulosity : What It Is and How to Get It. But she talks a little bit about how hard it was to grow up mixed in the midwest, in an area where there were very few mixed people - the few that did live there were mixed black and white - nobody else was mixed black and Asian like her. They also make over a little girl who’s probably mixed, though they don’t say it explicitly. Kimora talks about how yes, they made her over on the outside, but she still has to find inner strength to deal with people who don’t understand her or “understand why she looks the way she looks.”
That’s my take. But here’s blog The Bible of Hip Hop’s slightly bitchier write-up
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The Today Show is still the longest, most tedious display of pop culture burn-out ever broadcast, but every now and then, they come up with a keeper! Recently, Kimora Lee-Simmons appeared on the program to show off her new line of clothes and talk about her new book “Fabulosity”. Stop laughing! It’s the name she chose, and you must love it, damnit! But just when Kimora thought that she had pulled off a perfect TV fashion show, all hell breaks loose. Fast forward to the end of the video and you get to see TV’s queen of mean Katie Couric ask Kimora about the troubling reports about her marriage, how she gets up in the morning against all the media critique (Kimora says “…defy the haters!”), finally Couric compliments Kimora on… wait for it… her gigantic teeth!

John wrote:
This time, I ain’t sayin’ a word.
Posted 04 Mar 2006 at 2:04 pm ¶
April wrote:
Oh! The video was awesome, excellent!! BRAVO.
Posted 04 Mar 2006 at 8:59 pm ¶
mtevc wrote:
Come on John…Kimora bashing is too easy and too much fun!
Posted 06 Mar 2006 at 9:30 am ¶
you know... wrote:
If you look at pictures of Kimora before Russell, before the fame and riches, it is obvious that she had a nose job. I also read somewhere that though her mother claims to be Japanese she is actually Korean. They seem to have some self-esteem issues.
Posted 06 Mar 2006 at 4:20 pm ¶
John wrote:
mtevc,
Look at the shit I started last time!
You’re right, people are supposed to have fun w/ her… That’s her thing!
But I feel bad for playing into it.
I realize that the decline of western civilization is not Kimora’s fault.
It’s Paris Hilton’s fault.
Posted 06 Mar 2006 at 6:30 pm ¶
mtevc wrote:
NO, we can’t blame Kimora…she didn’t create the stupidity/overmaterialism…but I say we get a life-raft and ship her, Paris and Nicole to Iceland. Then we remove all the gold and diamonds from the hip-hop community and pawn it and turn the money into books for the community.
Posted 08 Mar 2006 at 9:02 am ¶
John wrote:
mtevc, I’m thankful that I was born here… proud that I have a family that contributes… that we live in a great country. But some days, while flipping through the paper’s politics and arts/entertainment section, Canada’s look’n good… some days.
Posted 08 Mar 2006 at 11:27 am ¶