Here are Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou on the beach in St. Barts, making me all the more aware of my resolutions. I could get snarky and say that Kimora surely had some help from a surgeon, but even so she looks great and you can’t achieve that body without hard work. Plus she’s got that incredible man by her side. Can you believe these two have been together for almost five years? It irks me that Djimon is holding their two year son, Kenzo, (why did I think the kid’s name was Kelso at first?) in most of these shots and blocking our view. Still, what we can see is magnificent. This is one hot family and they know it. Radar has more on their nice vacation:

For a woman with three children, Kimora Lee Simmons rocked her bikini like a woman half her age while taking a Christmas Day beach stroll.

The 36-year-old is enjoying a festive vacation in St Barts with her partner, actor Djimon Hounsou, and their adorable two-year-old son Kenzo.

The model-turned-fashion mogul looked amazing in a tiny black two piece.

Hounsou, 47, got in some exercise to keep his athletic body in the fantastic shape it is in by carrying their adorable tot on his shoulders as they soaked up the sun on the French Caribbean island.

Kimora has two daughters from her marriage to Phat Farm and Def Jam honcho Russell Simmons, Ming, 10, and Aoki, nine, were also with the couple.

The astute businesswoman is adding to her Baby Phat and KLS clothing line by launching a new style website, justfab.com.

“I want to make glamor accessible to every fashionista,” she said recently.

[From Radar]

Holy crap Djimon is 47?! I would have put him at 37.

I love to head somewhere warm during the cold winters on the east coast, but somehow it would feel wrong to me to be in a tropical location for Christmas. I dislike it when we don’t have a white Christmas (like this year, boo!) but it at least has to be cold. Maybe if I grew up in a more temperate climate I’d feel differently.

Also, I need to say something about that JustFab shoe website that Radar mentions. I have a little bit of a shoe habit that I’m trying to break, but I really dislike those monthly shoe membership sites, like ShoeDazzle. I have looked at both ShoeDazzle and JustFab (I didn’t know it was Kimora’s venture) and the shoes look sub-par and don’t even match my tastes, even though I filled out that whole style profile they require. I have not ordered from those sites, but the shoes look crappier than shoes you can get at stores like JCPenney and they’re not even as cute. Unless you opt out during a small window of time every month or cancel they keep charging you $39 a month. For my money I prefer buying shoes on the daily sale sites like Ideeli and RueLala. (Rue is my favorite due to the layout and quality of the items. Also, those links have our affiliate code in there. Have to feed my habit somehow.)

Update: Here are photos of Kimora’s ex and the father of her two daughters, Russell Simmons, in St. Barts with some new very young looking mystery chick. (Update two: that’s Australian actress Melissa George, 35. Thanks anon and lala! She just looks really young.) So the little girls are probably there with nannies while they have a big extended family vacation, complete with dad’s new piece.

Photo credit: TRB/Fame Pictures and PacificCoastNews.com

Kimora Lee Simmons lost 30 pounds recently, and she did it gradually and didn’t run out and diet her butt off right after the birth of her son, Kenzo, in May, 2009. Kimora did a bikini photo shoot with OK! and gave some vague quotes about how she lost weight by cutting out junk food, doing some cardio every day and running after her son. (Don’t they always say that?) I bet she worked a lot harder than she’s letting on, but I like how she says she felt just as sexy when she weighed a little more, and how she didn’t stress out over it. This is a woman who has zero issues with self esteem. Why should she? She landed Djimon Hounsou, the lucky bitch. She also says she’s a size 6 now, and unlike Kirstie Alley I believe her.

You look amazing! Have you reached your goal?
I don’t know if I ever had a goal. I was just trying to lose some of the baby weight I’d gained when I was pregnant. Kenzo was a year old and I was thinking about getting my life back. Now the baby is almost 2, and I’ve lost about 30 pounds since last fall.

Does it bother you to see photos from when you were heavier?
Well, I’d just had a baby! I’m not bothered about it. I don’t live my life with that pressure. I’m a mother, a wife, a businesswoman. I’m not an actress, so I don’t have that life where I have to be on stage. I have the TV show, I’m into production and I develop businesses. I don’t feel like I have to be a size 2. I’m beautiful. When I was pregnant, I was probably like a 10 1/2, but I don’t really know. That would be a guess, and now I’m more like a size 6. But I always feel sexy.

If I’m pregnant, I feel like I’m bringing a life into this world and I feel like that’s beautiful as well. Now I’m thinner and that’s a different kind of sexy – but it’s always sexy.

What is your diet-and-exercise routine?
I do very easy things. Running after a 1-year-old really will do it, and I have three kids. I do a little cardio every day, and it doesn’t have to be on a machine. I sometimes take a walk. I try to do it for a minimum of 30 minutes a day. I stopped eating junk food, like chips and candy. It’s about timing, portion control and eating healthy foods that fill you up.

What was the hardest part of losing weight?
Not eating all the great things I love, as if we had really broken up! And even now, I’ll have a little bread. I am not neurotic about it. I don’t do things that I can’t maintain as party of a normal lifestyle… It’s all about moderation and making substitutions. For example, I have cut back on my dairy and I don’t eat so much fattening red meat.

[From OK! Magazine, print edition, May 23, 2011]

Again, I’m not buying the “it was easy” line. It sounds like she really did change her diet around completely, and that’s hard work in itself. Still, I like her message that she felt sexy after she had a baby. She even said that most magazines are “fantasy” and that “we fix it or we airbrush it, and we have have a makeup team… I just don’t want the kids to think that we woke up like that. We have teams of people – hair, wardrobe and stylists.” That didn’t stop her from posing completely made up in three different bikinis with heels and getting her own photos airbrushed for OK! It’s not like she’s doing a Jamie Lee Curtis and posing in harsh lighting without makeup or Photoshop. Remember when her head was pasted onto another model’s body for her perfume ad? You know she signed off on that.

Photos below are from 4/5/11 and 5/4/11. Credit: Fame and WENN

These are some new photos of that lucky bitch Kimora Lee Simmons, celebrating her 36th birthday (for real – 36?) at Il Pastaio with her husband, Djimon Hounsou. Djimon still looks like he’s into it. DAMN IT. He also looks like he’s buying “36” too! Double damn it. It’s kind of funny that they celebrate her birthday by sitting outside and making out for the pleasure of the paparazzi. But once again, Djimon seems into it, so there really must be something I’m missing.

In other I-think-I’m-going-to-sick news, Djimon recently talked about how his family is delightfully bilingual:

Blood Diamond star Djimon Hounsou is teaching his baby son French as he learns to talk – because he wants the boy to be bilingual.

The Benin native admits 23-month-old Kenzo, his first child with model/fashion designer Kimora Lee Simmons, is a fast learner and is already picking up words in both English and Hounsou’s native French.

He tells Us Weekly magazine, “It’s fascinating to see him speak French with me and English with (his) mum. He mimics anything we say.”

And Kenzo isn’t the only one benefiting from Hounsou’s language lessons – Lee Simmons’ daughters Ming, 11, and Aoki, eight, from her marriage to hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, are also keen to learn.

Hounsou adds, “I only speak French to the kids in the house. They are like sponges. They take in everything.”

[From Contact Music]

Imagine Djimon Hounsou in your house, teaching your children to speak French. Imagine him trying to teach you too… little words whispered into your ear, words of encouragement, horny French words. Good God, is Kimora really that awesome of a person that she deserves all of this Djimon-y goodness? For real?

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

The above image is the new print ad for the perfume “Dare Me” which was apparently created by Kimora Lee Simmons. She is the face of “Dare Me” and will be starring in all future advertising for the perfume. Kimora told WWD that “message with this fragrance is empowerment and self-reliance.” Unspoken: “…empowerment and self-reliance and somebody sticking my head on another woman’s body.” Don’t believe me? Here’s is a photo of Kimora from the beginning of March:

So, basically, the ad is beyond airbrushing. HuffPo and New York Magazine are both theorizing about whether Kimora’s head really was popped onto some other lady’s body, and whether or not this was Kimora’s evil plan all along:

Kimora Lee Simmons’s new fragrance Dare Me is cheap. No, really. Instead of beginning with prestige distribution like her past fragrances, this will go straight to a total of 18,000 mass-market doors, like Walgreens, Target, and Kohl’s stores. Prices range from $12 for a travel-size bottle to $28 for a full ounce.

However, what probably wasn’t cheap about this launch were the marketing materials, because hello, retoucher! Either they Photoshopped Kimora’s body to death or stuck her head on a model’s body. The question is, if they did the latter, would they tell her? Ironically, Kimora says the “message with this fragrance is empowerment and self-reliance.”

[From New York Magazine]

Yep. And you know Kimora probably approved this sh-t 100%. What I’d really like to know is whether or not the staff was like, “Actually, we’re just going to pop your head onto this chick’s body” or if they didn’t say anything and Kimora actually thinks she looks like this. Note: I am not saying Kimora has a bad figure at all. Her normal body looks fine – great even, especially since she just gave birth to son Kenzo less than a year ago. And obviously, she’s got something going on, because Djimon Hounsou is still all over her. But let’s be straight – this is not her body, and she shouldn’t be putting herself out there, promotionally, with lines like “this fragrance is all about empowerment and self-reliance.” Empowerment is not your head on another woman’s body.

Here are some photos of Kimora from January and February:

Ad is courtesy of HuffPo.

Djimon Hounson and Kimora Lee Simmons on 2/14/09. The photos we’re referring to are on OK! Magazine’s website.

Holy crap, is this a gorgeous family or what? I don’t even like Kimora Lee Simmons, but I am all over these photos. Kimora and her partner/baby-daddy Djimon Hounsou decided to give the first baby pictures of son Kenzo Lee to OK! Magazine. Kenzo was born back in May, to very little fanfare. That’s not a criticism, by the way. I’m very impressed with the fact that Kimora “Self-Promotion” Lee Simmons has been able to keep quiet about this whole thing – the relationship with Djimon, the pregnancy, and giving birth to such a beautiful baby. Look at those lips! Look at his hair! That baby is adorable. And Djimon looks delicious.

“I just never thought it could be this good,” Kimora Lee Simmons coos to OK!. The 34-year-old Baby Phat CEO and Style Network star has every reason to be in love with life: her career is superhot right now, and she and her husband, actor Djimon Hounsou, welcomed their first child, a boy named Kenzo Lee, in May.

In an exclusive interview and photo shoot with OK!, Kimora — who also has two daughters Ming, 9 and Aoki, 7 (with ex-husband Russell Simmons) shows off her family’s newest addition.

[From OK! Magazine]

Djimon famously called Kimora “the least high-maintenance lady I’ve ever dated” to which I can only say, “that poor bastard”. But they look wonderful together, and I like that Kimora included her two daughters (their dad is Russell Simmons) in the photo shoot. Could it be that I’ve misjudged Kimora? Is she secretly a low-maintenance girl, a loving partner and a great mom? Let’s hope so.

Kimora Lee Simmons and her boyfriend, Oscar-nominated actor Djimon Hounsou, have welcomed their first child together, a son. Their son was born Saturday, May 30th, and no name has been released thus far. The little boy joins his big half-sisters Ming and Aoki (Russell Simmons is their dad). This is Djimon’s first child, as far as my research shows. My research also shows that Djimon’s middle name is Gaston, which is totally hot. I’d imagine Kimora whispers “Djimon Gaston” to him when they’re in bed. But I digress.

Even though I consider Kimora Lee Simmons one of the biggest famewhores out there, I have to give her a lot of credit for keeping her relationship with Djimon Hounsou on the downlow. Allegedly, they’ve been dating for more than two years, and you rarely, if ever hear anything about them. There was the initial announcement of Kimora’s pregnancy in January, and some rumors that she and Djimon got married (they didn’t, as far as I can tell). The last thing I can remember was a report from April about the baby shower they threw - other than that, they’ve been flying under the radar. This surprises me for two reasons – Kimora is first, a tireless self-promoter and second, when you’re sleeping with Djimon Hounsou, how are you not telling everyone you meet? Well, now she has the proof:

Kimora Lee Simmons and actor Djimon Hounsou have welcomed their first child together.

“Kimora and Djimon are the proud parents of a new baby boy,” her rep tells Usmagazine.com. “Both mother and child are doing great.”

Simmons, 34, also took to her Twitter page to confirm the news. She wrote, “It’s a boy! Thanks to everyone out there for all your well wishes! More to come. Thank God. And God Bless! Kimora + Djimon Love & Light, KLS”

No baby name was announced.

Simmons has two daughters, Ming Lee, 9, and Aoki Lee, 7, with hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, whom she divorced in 2008 after nearly 10 years of marriage.

“I have a lot of hang-ups in life with men. I’m not very trusting,” she told Harper’s Bazaar last year. “After my breakup, I thought, ‘I don’t need anything.’”

But after meeting Hounsou in February 2007, she said, “I have someone who has the heart, the soul, and the hotness.”

Added Hounsou , “My first impression has always been the same, that she’s a very beautiful lady, very capable and intelligent and smart with great family values. She’s the least high-maintenance lady I’ve ever dated.”

Asked if she wanted more kids, Simmons previously told Us, “I would love to. I practice everyday.”

[From US Weekly]

“She’s the least high-maintenance lady I’ve ever dated”? This poor bastard has had the misfortune of dating women more high-maintenance than Kimora. Poor Djimon. No, no, I won’t go there. I’m sure they’re very pleased, and it’s good to hear mother and child are happy and healthy. After naming her girls with Asian-influenced names, I bet the little boy gets an African name, to honor Djimon’s Benin roots.

Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou are shown on 2/7/09. Credit: WENN.com

Kimora Lee Simmons plucks everyone’s nerves, right? It’s not just me? It’s the combination of her attitude and her voice for me. So here’s the question – how in the world did she land Djimon Hounsou? That man is fine. She’s not only with him, he got her pregnant! And he’s sticking around! Does Djimon have a thing for high-maintenance women? If he does, he should try me.

Anyway, Djimon is sticking around, even when Kimora throws herself a baby shower and invites OK! Magazine along for the ride. Apparently, the birth of the baby is “imminent”. Both Kimora and Djimon feel strongly that the baby is a little boy, but they haven’t had the sex confirmed.

Kimora Lee Simmons left her baby shower until the last possible moment. “I’m about to have a baby,” says Kimora, who’s due in June. “I’m ready to go, so it was kind of last minute and low-key,” she tells OK!.

The model and Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane star, 34, invited OK! to her L.A. home on April 19 to herald the imminent arrival of her third child (her first with actor Djimon Hounsou, 45).

Among the 50 guests were Stevie Wonder and his wife, Kai, Holly Robinson Peete, and Kimora’s daughters with ex-hubby Russell Simmons, Ming Lee, 9, and Aoki Lee, 6.
Kimora hasn’t had the sex of the baby confirmed yet, but she confides, “We’re leaning heavily toward the blue team!”

Crazy cravings: “I’ve been eating a lot of spicy food. I put jalapeños in everything.”

Shapes and sizes: “With the girls I was wider in the belly. Now I’m narrower, but if I turn side-ways I can’t fit through the door!”

Dream dad: “Djimon is a spiritual person, and it’s a big deal for him to have a baby. When he first saw the heartbeat at the ultrasound, he said he felt very humbled.”

Big sisters: “The girls say, ‘We’re going to dress the baby up!’ Djimon’s like, ‘No, you’re not going to be pinning tulle to the boy!’ ”

[From OK! Magazine]

I’ll buy that Djimon is a spiritual person. So what’s he doing with Kimora? The most interesting part, for me, is that idea that women carry differently depending on the sex. Some people say that’s an old wives’ tale, some say it’s absolutely the truth. There might be something to it if Kimora is carrying differently now than she did with her daughters. I’m also a little surprised Russell Simmons didn’t show up – yes, his ex-wife is having a baby with another man, but Russell and Kimora are still really close, and I bet he’s totally happy for her. I wonder what Russell sent the baby? Ten bucks says it’s a statue of Buddha.

Here’s Kimora Lee and Djimon Hounsou grocery shopping at ‘Bristol Farms’ in Hollywood on April 13th. Images thanks to Fame Pictures .

Kimora Lee Simmons’ divorce from Russell Simmons was finalized in January, with Russell paying $20,000 a month per child and getting next to no custody. Meanwhile, Kimora Lee has been dating actor and model Djimon Hounsou, who got her knocked up with a child due this year. Getting pregnant with your new boyfriend before your divorce is finalized might seem a bit hasty, but the couple may have been eager to start their life together, as it has been reported that they were married in a traditional African ceremony last summer when they visited Djimon’s home in Benin, Africa.

According to a source close to the pair, Kimora and her man were married over the summer on a transcontinental trip to Hounsou’s native Benin, Africa − but they couldn’t make it official in the U.S. because Kimora was still technically married to mogul Russell Simmons; that divorce was finalized on Jan 28, 2009.

Kimora’s faux African wedding was apparently as wild as her Baby Phat fashion shows. “Both Kimora and Djimon wore traditional dashikis,” says our insider. “She went whole hog with the African theme − there were African drums, a traditional ceremony with dancers . . . they even had a hut!”

Present for the festivities were Kimora’s girls Aoki and Ming, as well as a nanny and photographer. “Aoki slept through the entire ceremony, and Ming cried. They were pretty confused as to what was going on,” says our source. As for Djimon, although he isn’t quite up to the level of daddy Russell, “They like him,” our source says simply.

Afterwards, the motley crew departed for the less rustic pastures of Paris. Under the guise of celebrating Aoki’s 6th birthday, the newly “married” couple enjoyed a romantic honeymoon.

These days, the fashion designer is careful about how she refers to Djimon, but to friends she is quick to call him “my husband.”

[From NY Daily News]

Though their marriage isn’t official in the US, Djimon was seen out buying a ring for Kimora in Beverley Hills at Martin Katz jeweler recently, so they are probably planning a wedding in the States now that Kimora is no longer legally attached.

Kimora is by all accounts a self-centered diva, so the whole African-themed marriage before her divorce is finalized seems right up her alley. If this story is true, particularly the part about her daughters’ reactions to the ceremony, then I don’t give this marriage very long at all. Maybe a year or two, for the baby’s sake. It always seemed, in public at least, that Russell loved his daughters immensely, and Kimora treated them like little spoiled Barbie dolls. Home life won’t be pretty if her daughters only “like” their new dad.

Here’s Djimon and Kimora taking her kids, Ming Lee (blue skirt) and Aoki Lee (pink shorts) to the Westfield Mall in Century City for some shopping fun on February 24th. Images thanks to BauerGriffinOnline.

The divorce between Kimora Lee Simmons and Russell Simmons has finally come to a close. The two separated in early 2006, filing for divorce in 2008. Now it seems like Kimora Lee got exactly what she wanted out of the proceedings. She will get $20,000 a month in child support for each of her daughters, Ming and Akoi until they turn 19; and every three years until they turn 16 he will have to buy them a new car costing at least $60,000. Russell also gets no custody, with very rigid visitation rights. He will only get to see them every eight weeks, and even then a nanny as well as a bodyguard must be present at all times.

Simmons has agreed to pay child support for daughters, Ming, 9, and Aoki, 6, of $20,000 each per month until the girls turn 19, according to court papers filed Thursday in Los Angeles.

Lee Simmons also won sole legal and physical custody of the girls, with monitored visitation for Simmons.

“When the children are in [Simmons's] custody, they shall be accompanied at all times by a nanny and security person,” the filing reads.

Simmons also agreed to provide a new car, worth at least $60,000, for the children’s use, until they turn 16. The car will be replaced every three years, documents show.

The papers also outline a meticulous, seven-page agreement on Simmons’s visitation rights, giving him access to the girls every eighth week during their school year and on various holidays.

[from People]

This divorce hasn’t been exactly bitter, at least in the public eye, and the two have long been seen canoodling with their respective significant others. Kimora, for one, has been dating Djimon Hounsou, and has hinted at their engagement. She is also pregnant with his baby. Russell has been seen out with various young women.

Considering how the divorce was finally settled, I imagine that Kimora acted like the self-important diva she is throughout the entire process. She’s not known for being easy to work with. Even E! wanted to pull her show from their network because she was being difficult. Her diva antics are probably what ultimately got her full custody of the girls with such rigid visitation rules. He’s always struck me as a zen, yoga-loving guy, and I wonder under what grounds she was able to so severely limit her children’s interaction with their father.

Also curious is the car agreement. The girls each get a car every three years until they turn 16 – which would be the age at which they would actually get to use the car. Wouldn’t it make more sense if he had to buy them a car for their 16th birthday? Well – that’s Hollywood divorce for you.

Update: Russell Simmons has blogged that it’s not true that a judge ordered him to pay $40k a month for his daughters and that he’s doing it willingly to provide a good education and future for them:

I am reading these stories today about how a judge ordered me to pay Kimora $40,000 a month in child support and I want to make something very clear. Nothing was ordered, it was given. My kids have a fabulous life; they are exposed to a broad range of artistic and scholastic educational programs and I’m very happy to contribute to that. As long as I have it, they can have it. If I ever don’t have it, I’m coming to live with them!

[From GlobalGrind]

Russell Simmons is shown with his daughters Ming Lee and Aoki Lee on 2/12/09 at the NAACP Image Awards. Credit: Bauergriffinonline

You know times are tight when someone like Kimora Lee Simmons is toning down her bling-encrusted fashion line. Simmons is the founder of Baby Phat, whose entire empire is built about the image of a glamorous lifestyle. Now walking around New York, I see a lot of Baby Phat being worn by people that I can guarantee you do not live anything that vaguely resembles Kimora’s lifestyle. And she must recognize that, because Baby Phat – normally a highlight of fashion week – is going comparatively low-key this year, with Simmons noting that it’s, “not the time to be running all over and flaunting the money that we don’t have.”

For years, the Baby Phat show that ends New York fashion week has been the raucous capper to eight days of runway shows–cocktails flow freely, the front row is filled with celebrities and about 1,600 guests cram into venues like the Roseland Ballroom just to get a glimpse of Kimora Lee Simmons’s latest creations. This season, however, the party is over for Baby Phat.

Ms. Simmons has cut her guest list in half in order to show at a smaller venue, Gotham Hall, and has also decided not to host her usual massive after-party. “Now’s not the time to be running all over and flaunting the money that we don’t have,” Ms. Simmons says. “Now’s not the time to have all these people come to the show who are coming because they’re your best friends — the people who need to be there are the buyers who need to see the clothes, the editors.”

Ms. Simmons’s comments reflect the new, more sober attitude designers have adopted for fashion week, which officially begins Friday. Designers like Marc Jacobs and Proenza Schouler have cut back their guest lists this year and others such as Vera Wang and Monique Lhuillier have opted to do low-key presentations instead of big runway shows.

In Ms. Simmons’s case, she also moved the Baby Phat show to a Tuesday timeslot in order to reach out to international buyers, who typically left New York before her Friday show took place. And while she’s planning to have a small cocktail toast after her show, “it’s going to be small, intimate” she says, describing it as a quick “have a drink, thank you, I salute you, but OK, now we have to go home” affair.

[From the Wall Street Journal]

I generally find Baby Phat clothing to be incredibly unattractive and obnoxious – at least when I see it worn by real people on the subway. I’m not sure how most of it is considered flattering or attractive, but clearly people love it because I see it anywhere. But Kimora is obviously a smart businesswoman and knows how to make herself appealing to her demographic. When people were into the fabulous lifestyle, that’s what she gave them. But right now that seems so far away and unattainable to people, so toning her show down can only help her.

Here’s Kimora Lee Simmons and Djimon Hounsou on February 9th in New York. Images thanks to WENN.