Kelly Bensimon is a multitalented personality who has risen to fame in more than one type of profession. She is a former model. She is an author, and had served as an editor for Elle Accessories.

She was a part of the television series, named, The Real Housewives of New York City, in the Bravo. She was a part of the season 2 to season 4.   She is American in origin.

Kelly was born in the year 1968, May 1 in Rockford, Illinois in United States.

She started her career in modelling right from her teenage. She went to the Trinity College but discontinued her studies after one year. In the year 1998, she has completed her graduation from School of General Studies of the Columbia University and earned a degree in the Literature and Writing. She recently did her MBA on International Marketing from the North-eastern University.

As stated above she came to modelling right from her teenage. Her modelling career started New York City. She had a chance to become the cover model of Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and Cosmopolitan. She has also associated with the Clarins. She also served as an Editor for Hamptons Magazine, which is a weekly which is available for free. The circulation of the Magazine was ranging from 40,000 to 50,000.

Another magazine where she served as an editor was the Gotham Magazine. Both Gotham and Hamptons were owned by the Nice Media. She has also taken charge of editor for the Elle Accessories Magazine but she left the position after few issues of the magazine.

She is also a talented author and has written few books like In the Spirit of the Hamptons, The Bikini Book, and American Style. She also served as a columnist in the Magazine, Page six, entitled The Socialiser: Kelly Killoren Bensimon.

She also worked as columnist for the newspaper, named, AM New York.

She has hosted the IMG fashion shows and Swim shows which were conducted in Miami. She became the ambassador for Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week for the Spring Collection in the year 2007, New York City. Her first Jeweller y collection was sold during the Barney’s and the second Jewellery Collection at Bloomingdale in 2007.

She has also appeared as cover model for Playboy Magazine in the edition of March 2010.  She also served as guest editor for the Avenue Magazine for a few issues.  The estimated net worth is about $20 million.

Quick Summary:

Full name: Kelly Killoren Bensimon

Date of birth: May 1, 1968

Birth place: Rockford, Illinois

Age: 48 Years

Profession: Author, Model, TV personality, Businesswoman

Height: 1.78 m

Weight: 65 kg

Net worth: $20 million

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