Kimora Lee Simmons looked better than ever as she made her triumphant return to reality television, 15 years after wrapping her fan-favorite series Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane.
The star, 50, left viewers stunned with her slim, youthful appearance as she invited cameras back into her glamorous world, teasing a life that is now ‘more fabulous and outrageous than ever before.’
The Baby Phat mogul, who once ruled international runways for Chanel and Fendi, looked runway-ready once again as she offered a fresh look inside her growing fashion empire and her life as a single mother of five.
The trailer opens with Kimora grinning as she announces, ‘I know you missed me!’
‘It’s been almost 15 years since you last saw me and my family. A lot has changed. I have more businesses. Baby Phat was my first baby. Being a fashion icon was also my job,’ she explains proudly.
And she doesn’t hold back on who runs the show, adding: ‘I am a luxury hoarder. I’m the mom. I’m the dad. I’m the president. The CFO. My best is damn good. If mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.’
Kimora Lee Simmons looked better than ever as she made her triumphant return to reality television, 15 years after wrapping her fan-favorite series Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane
Kimora also shines a spotlight on her bustling household, which includes daughters Ming, 25, and Aoki, 23, and sons Kenzo, 16, Gary, 16, and Wolfe, 10, as well as her ‘bonus son’ Jayden.
‘It’s like the Brady Bunch, but with no husband,’ she jokes.
In 2023, the mogul detailed the dynamics of her family and being a single mom to People.
‘I think about my kids all the time and that’s it. My kids, their friends, my other kids, like, you know, I have a lot. And these are others of my kids. The Smile Train kids are my kids,’ she said.
Simmons said her primary motivation in life was to keep her children happy: ‘I feel like that’s the work that I do every day to keep that smile on their face. And again, that smile means so much.’
Previously, the famed family was in the headlines after Aoki, a model and Harvard graduate, and Kimora spoke publicly about their grievances with Russell Simmons.
Aoki claimed he had been verbally abusive toward her, sharing text messages and screengrabs of her communications with her father, whose career has tumbled after at least 15 women accused him of sexual misconduct amid the rise of the MeToo movement in late 2017. He has denied all allegations.
Aoki explained to Teen Vogue in September about her rationale in going public with details of her stormy relationship with her father, saying that he had negatively impacted her mental health with his mercurial conduct.
The star, 50, left viewers stunned with her youthful appearance as she invited cameras back into her glamorous world, teasing a life that is now ‘more fabulous than ever before’
The Baby Phat mogul, who once ruled international runways for Chanel and Fendi, looked runway-ready once again as she offered a fresh look inside her life as a single mother of five
The trailer opens with Kimora grinning as she announces, ‘I know you missed me!’
‘Part of it was already out there,’ Aoki said. ‘There were reasons I thought it was reasonable to publish because it was playing out in, like, a silent bubble.’
Aoki alleged on social media that the Def Jam co-founder had been ‘awful to [her] for years,’ and that she’d had significant anxiety issues as a result.
Aoki claimed that Russell had not been well ‘for years.’
‘He needs help and won’t accept that. He refuses to acknowledge he is not himself,’ she wrote. ‘He has threatened and bullied my sister, my grandma, he has harassed my grandma in the middle of the night in poor health, [sent] a man to my sister’s apartment at 2am to scare her.’
Aoki said that Russell ‘lashes out at ANYONE who does not say “oh Russell everything is fine,”‘ adding, ‘Well it’s not fine.’
Kimora also shines a spotlight on her bustling household, which includes daughters Ming, 25, and Aoki, 23, (pictured above in 2023) and sons Kenzo, 16, Gary, 16, and Wolfe, 10, as well as her ‘bonus son’ Jayden
Lee Simmons (seen in 2002) is best known as a model and the former president and creative director of Phat Fashions
At the time, Kimora also took to social media with posts about her ex-husband’s allegedly abusive conduct, saying that while she was ‘so sorry to have to do this,’ it was essential to make the situation publicly known.
‘This man has been threatening my kids’ lives,’ said Kimora, who was wed to Russell from 1998 until 2009. ‘We won’t be bullied or threatened or afraid. No one should live like this. No one’s child. This is abuse. Not ok.’
Aoki told Teen Vogue that a celebrity (who she did not name) reassured her that her actions were appropriate.
She said the celeb told her, ‘Oh, I saw your thing. I did the same thing when I was, like, 20, and it was fine.’
Aoki declined to speak to the magazine about the sexual misconduct accusations that have been made against her father, as the publication reported that she stressed ‘a desire not to step out of place in consideration of all parties involved.’
