Kelly Bensimon Net Worth
Hot American celebrity Kelly Bensimon is known as a former model and the former editor of Elle Accessories. She has also appeared on the reality television series The Real Housewives of New York City for three seasons. Bensimon’s current net worth is approximately $20 million as of 2016. Let’s take a look on her career and how did she amass such a fortune.
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Kelly was born on May 1st, 1968, in Rockford, Illinois, and started her successful modeling career as a teenager. In 1998, she graduated with a degree in Literature and Writing from Columbia University’s School of General Studies. Later, she went to Northeastern University to complete her MBA degree.
During her modeling career, Bensimon has appeared in famous magazines, including Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Harper’s Bazaar. She works as the editor at large for Hamptons Magazine and Gotham Magazine, both owned by Niche Media. She also worked as the founding editor of Elle Accessories Magazine but left after two issues. Kelly is an author of several books, namely In The Spirit of the Hamptons, American Style, and The Bikini Book, and works as columnist for the newspaper. In 2010, Bensimon posed for Playboy magazine, showing her incredible figure at age of 41.
Her other activities, which gained her her net worth, includes for example being an ambassador for 2007 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, hosting the IMG swim shows in Miami and the IMG fashion week, appearing of The Real Housewives of New York City, and making successfuly her own jewelry lines. Killoren married a fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon in 1997 and they have two daughters, Sea Louise and Thaddeus Ann. Unfortunately, the couple got divorced in 2007.
