Short Biography
Kelly Killoren Bensimon was born on 01-05-1968 in Rockford, Winnebago in the state of Illinois, United States. She is an American Author, Socialite, Editor, Model, Entrepreneur & Television Personality.
Kelly Killoren Bensimon Complete Bio & Career
She went to a small private school, Keith Country Day School, where she ranked high in a class of 20 students, and where she excelled on the Rockford Marlins swimming team. Growing up, she loved children and imagined herself becoming a paediatric surgeon. But then, at 15, in Seventeen Magazine, she read about a contest. Elite Models was doing a nationwide search.
Kelly flew to New York and stayed in an apartment provided by the agency with model Stefanie Seymour. At her initial interview with Elite, they told her they would be taking her out on “go-sees,” where she would be presented, with photographs, to various magazine editors at Vogue, Cosmo, Elle, Glamour and others. She wound up doing a fashion shoot for Sante D’Orazio of Italian Vogue on this trip.
Graduating high school, and knowing the importance of education, she went off to Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut to begin the first year of what she expected would be a four-year college education. But it was an almost impossible schedule. She had all classes on Tuesday and Thursday. But on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, she commuted on the train back and forth from Connecticut to New York.
During this time, she began writing for magazines. She was modelling about fashion and beauty. She could write about fashion. She also came out to the Hamptons, a place she had been to earlier in her career on a modelling shoot, which she had never been able to forget.
Kelly also wrote a second beautiful book called American Style, about fashion, architecture and design from the turn of the century, until now. More recently she wrote The Bikini Book and I Can Make You Hot!