Who Is Kelly Bensimon?
May 24th, 2010 - 9:41 pm ICT by Angela Kaye MasonMay 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Kelly Bensimon is an artist jewelry designer, a former model, an author, and star of Bravo’s ‘The Real Housewives of New York City’. She was born May 1, 1968 and grew up in Rockford, Illinois, began to work as a model when she was just 15 years old, and was the third wife of Gilles Bensimon, a French fashion designer who is 24 years her senior. They divorced in July of 2007. She is the mother of two daughters Sea Louise Bensimon (born in 1998) and Thaddeus Ann “Teddy” Bensimon (born in 2000). But who is she?
In February 2010, she decided to show the world that a 41 year old mother of two could be sexy, as she had her ex husband do a photo shoot for her for Playboy magazine’s March issue. “I’ve never posed naked before. And Gilles has never photographed for Playboy. I thought showing the real me through Gilles’s eyes would look even better than the real me!” she said excitedly.
And this month she is busy with damage control after blowing up on screen for the “Real Housewives” show. Kelly said that she had been the victim of “systemic bullying” by the other ‘Housewives’ and said that while stuck on a boat with the rest of them, she miserable. “It was four people against one. I go on this trip, I’m trying to be open. I have no expectations. I’m trying to be nice to these women who clearly don’t like me,” She said to ‘People’. “But the minute I got on the trip, they went after me. It was constant.” She added that her explosion was not a nervous breakdown, “It was a nervous breakthrough.” She stated that the fans should not judge who she is according t a television show, which shows exciting moments to get ratings. . “This is me being a ‘Housewife’ on a television show,” she says. “This is not me in my real life.”
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