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Aokiii 🇰🇷🇯🇵🤘🏽 (@aokileesimmons) • Instagram photos and videos. 816K Followers, 3,482 Following, 760 Posts - Aokiii 🇰🇷🇯🇵🤘🏽 (@aokileesimmons) on Instagram: "Harvard class of 2023 🦋🌈 Currently playing professional dress up with @nomadmgmt @thelionsmgmt @fordmodelsparis @fabbrica.milano 💋".
Jun 6, 2023 · Simmons is mom to daughters Aoki Lee and Ming Lee with ex Russell Simmons, son Kenzo, 13, with ex Djimon Hounsou, son Wolfe, 8, with estranged husband Tim Leissner, and son Gary,...
Sep 12, 2023 · The work of a model is inherently storytelling, and in a luminous duplex apartment in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, Aoki Lee Simmons is bringing a new narrative to life. Her...
- She Made Her Runway Debut as A Toddler.
- She Starred on A Reality Show as A Kid.
- She’S Close with Her Family.
- She Spent The Summer Volunteering in Europe.
- She Didn’T Just Get Accepted to Harvard…
- …And Her Mom Wants You to Know She Did “On Her Own merit.”
- She’S Helping Mom Kimora Re-Launch Her Iconic Fashion Line, Baby Phat.
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Aoki first took a turn on the runway at 18 months old, joining older sister Ming Lee to celebrate mom Kimora during the final bow for her Baby Phat fashion line in 2004. Aoki was so young at the time, she was carried on her mom’s hip. Throughout the rest of her childhood, Aoki and Ming continued to be by their mom’s side at every runway show. Below...
From 2007 to 2011, Kimora’s reality TV series, Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane, ran on E! and focused on her life raising daughters Ming (now 19), Aoki and son Kenzo, 9, while documenting her relationships with then-boyfriend Djimon Hounsou and ex-husband Russell Simmons. From running Baby Phat design meetings to taking her kids back-to-school shoppin...
Kimora and Russell separated in 2006, but Aoki is very close with both parents. She recently traveled to Bali with Russell, where she co-hosted a fundraiser for earthquake and tsunami victims. And she regularly shares sweet moments with her two younger brothers, Kenzo and Wolfe, 3 (whose dad is Kimora’s husband, Tim Leissner), on Instagram.
Throughout the summer months in 2018, Aoki documented her time helping The Unmentionables’ refugee resource center in Athens and her work as the youngest archaeologiston the Pollentia Roman dig in Spain on her Instagram account.
Aoki also got accepted into “Dartmouth, Vassar, Barnard etc.,” her proud mom Kimora wrote in an Instagram caption.
In emotional videos shared to her Instagram Story, Kimora praised her daughter for getting into the school on her own – and poked fun at the celebrity parents involved in the college admissions scandalat the same time. “I’m still crying and beaming,” Kimora said in the video. “You don’t understand this has been a ride for me. I’m two out of two kid...
In addition to her college studies, Aoki will be stepping in (along with sister Ming) to assist her mother in re-launching the Baby Phat fashion line. Kimora launched the line in 1999 as part of then-husband Russell’s Phat Fashions company, and it took off – but by 2010, she exited her role as creative director when it became a part of the Kellwood...
Aoki Lee Simmons is the 16-year-old daughter of model and entrepreneur Kimora Lee and rapper Russell Simmons. She has been accepted into Harvard, starred on a reality show, walked the runway as a toddler, and helped her mom re-launch Baby Phat.
Jun 2, 2023 · Daughter of hip-hop and entertainment mogul Russell Simmons and fashion icon Kimora Lee Simmons, she’s no stranger to the limelight, making cameos as a toddler in “Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane.”
Jul 12, 2021 · Kimora Lee Simmons' daughter Aoki, 18, walked in her first haute couture runway for Pyer Moss, a Black-owned brand celebrating Black culture. The Harvard student followed in her mom's footsteps and made her runway debut at 18 months.
May 30, 2023 · After years of hard work, balancing her modeling career, an autoimmune disease and heavy academic studies, Aoki Lee Simmons is an official graduate of Harvard University. Sharing her...
