KELLY BENSIMON Interviews Backstage at NY FASHION WEEK
Channel: CHANCE TV
Date: 2020-06-03

KELLY BENSIMON The Real Houseswives of New York, Ivy leaguer, Author Interview ChanceTV

KELLY BENSIMON (born May 1, 1968) is an American author, socialite and former editor of Elle Accessories and a former model. She appeared as a full-time cast member on the Bravo television series The Real Housewives of New York City from seasons 2 to season 4.
KELLY BENSIMON was born in Rockford, Illinois.  She began working as a model while in her teens.
Kelly graduated from Keith Country Day School, a college prep academy in Rockford, Illinois before attending college. She attended Trinity College, Connecticut, but left after a year.  She graduated in 1998 from Columbia University's School of General Studies with a degree in Literature and Writing. She completed an MBA with a focus on International Marketing at Northeastern University in 2015.

KELLY BENSIMON began her modeling career in New York City. She appeared in magazines such as Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Harper's Bazaar. She was once the face of Clarins. She is the editor at large for Hamptons Magazine  a free weekly with circulation of 40,000 to 50,000 and Gotham Magazine.  Both publications are owned by Niche Media. She became the founding editor of Elle Accessories, but left after two issues. She authored several books including In The Spirit of the Hamptons, American Style, and The Bikini Book - American Style was edited solely on her Blackberry.  Bensimon also wrote a column in Page Six Magazine called "The Socializer: Kelly Bensimon".   KELLY BENSIMON is also a style columnist for the newspaper AM New York.

KELLY BENSIMON was host of the IMG fashion week, and of the IMG swim shows in Miami. She was a spokesperson in 2006 for Wool as part of their Test Marketing Productions (TMP).   Bensimon hosted and modeled in menswear events with GQ magazine. She was also an "ambassador" for Spring 2007 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York City..

KELLY BENSIMON joined Bravo's The Real Housewives of New York City (seasons 2-4) in 2009 as a full cast member. Her most notable moments on the show include a controversial onscreen nervous breakdown while on a cast trip to the island of Saint John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

After regaining relevance from the Bravo show, KELLY BENSIMON appeared on the cover and in a six-page pictorial in the March 2010 edition of Playboy, which was photographed by her ex-husband Gilles Bensimon in August 2009 at Milk Studios in New York City.[citation needed]

On June 24, 2010, KELLY BENSIMON announced the launch of her fourth jewelry collection, Kelly by KELLY BENSIMON. The collection mixed metals, leather, feathers and crystals and was sold at Intermix stores across the U.S. to support Feeding America.[13] For spring 2011, Bensimon's jewelry collection was sold at Wink, W hotels, and Dash.[citation needed]

KELLY BENSIMON wrote three books for Assouline Publishing: In the Spirit of the Hamptons (2 volumes), American Style, and The Bikini Book. A portion of the author's proceeds are donated to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[citation needed] Bensimon's fourth book I Can Make You Hot, was published by St. Martin's Press in April 2012. A portion of the author's proceeds were being donated to Generositywater.org.[citation needed] In June 2016, Simon and Schuster published Bensimon's novel A Dangerous Age.[14]

In September 2011, KELLY BENSIMON was on the cover of Shape and was featured in a pictorial based on her exercise routine. She was featured in a pictorial in the December 2011 issue of Avenue magazine and was guest editor for the January and February issues. KELLY BENSIMON and her girls also appeared on the June 2012 cover of New York Family. KELLY BENSIMONs 2013 projects were her fragrance In the Spirit of and her candle line Baiser Rose; her HSN jewelry line which was launched on May 19, 2016 called Kelly Killoren by Kelly Killoren Bensimon.  KELLY BENSIMON appeared on Bravo's Odd Mom Out in episodes 9 and 10 of season 2. In June 2016, Killoren released her first novel, A Dangerous Age with Simon and Schuster. The loosely based novel on her personal life exposes the art and publishing world via four female friends who knew each other since they were young models, and places them in New York City with a lot at stake. In August 2017, Killoren launched the sequel The Second Course, which is a well researched odyssey about the alluring food world, and in September, she appeared on WEtv's reality series Million Dollar Matchmaker.

In March 2018, KELLY BENSIMON began to work as an agent for Dolly Lenz Realty in New York.   In August 2019, KELLY BENSIMON joined the Douglas Elliman real estate group.

Killoren Bensimon was married to fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon until the couple divorced. They have two daughters, Sea Louise, born in 1998, and Thaddeus Ann, born in 2000.