Kiana Tom

**Kiana Tom** (born March 14, 1965 in Maui, Hawaii, U.S.) is an American fitness model, television show fitness instructor, actress, and a former member of the *Oakland Raiderettes*.

## Television and film work

Since 1988, Kiana was one of the hosts of a fitness instruction television series called *BodyShaping*. In 1995, Tom created, hosted and co-produced her fitness series, *Kiana's Flex Appeal*, a lifestyle, health and fitness program on ESPN. Tom wrote numerous exercise routines and created the segments: home gym, pro gym, target training, aqua flex training. The show ended in 2001.

Due to the program's initial high ratings, ESPN chose to develop other shows around Tom, including *Kiana's Too Fit 2 Quit*, *Summer Sizzle with Kiana* & *Hot Summer Nights with Kiana*. Tom has also hosted *ABC Super Bowl Nightlife*, and has many other television hosting credits.

Kiana made a cameo appearance in her first movie *Cyber Bandits*, which was released in 1995. She co-starred in her first movie, *Universal Soldier: The Return* with Jean Claude Van Damme*. According to the New York Times review of the film the presence of the fitness guru compounded the physicality of the film.*

## Other works

Kiana has created and promotes a line of fitness products including her book *Kiana's Body Sculpting*, the *Kiana Fitness Wear* clothing line, the *Kiana Fitness Nutritional Line*, and a series of exercise instructional videos officially titled *Kiana Fitness Videos*. She has over 15 years of experience in the fitness industry.

Tom additionally received the the United States Sports Academy Award. She was interviewed on behalf of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Emcee to the Governor's Ball at the inaugural *X Games* in Newport Rhode Island, *Ms. Shape* magazine. She was also a cheerleader for the Oakland Raiders.

In 2002, Kiana shed her spandex workout outfit as she appeared fully nude in the May 2002 American issue of *Playboy*, being featured on the cover of the same issue. According to one interview, she was such a perfectionist that she had to wait until the right time in her career where she felt her body was in the best shape it had ever been.

## Personal life

Tom has been married since March 2002. Her husband is a fire department captain. She has two daughters. Her father, Layne Tom, Jr., was an actor who played various children (including Charlie Chan Jr.) in Charlie Chan *films and was the Asian Boy Ranger in* Mr. Smith Goes to Washington*.*

Kiana is part Hawaiian, Chinese, and Irish. Her name in Hawaiian means “calm water” or "moon goddess". She is also trained as a virtuoso piano player.

## References

1. ↑ http://www.salon.com/media/media960530.html
2. ↑ Kiana Tom at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
3. ↑ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "FILM REVIEW; Soldiers Dying to Serve, And Die to Serve They Do", *The New York Times*, 21 August 1999.  Template:Dead link
4. ↑ ]Kiana's Body Sculpting HTML page at McMillan publishing website
5. ↑ Harris, Elliot (March 26, 2002). Exercising her job options. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved on 15 January 2010.
6. ↑ http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/dailynews/extra/04\_02/04\_05b.html

## External links

* Kiana Tom links at FreeOnes
* Kiana Tom at Babepedia
* Extratv.com: Kiana Tom
* Kiana Tom article at *Wikipedia*