Kenya Moore
| Beauty pageant titleholder | |
| Born |
Kenya Summer Moore January 24, 1971 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
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| Education | Wayne State University |
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| Years active | 1992–present |
| Title(s) | |
| Major competition(s) |
Miss Michigan USA 1993 (Winner) Miss USA 1993 (Winner) Miss Universe 1993 (Top 6) |
Kenya Summer Moore (born January 24, 1971), is an American actress, model, producer, author, television personality, and entrepreneur. She currently stars in the Bravo TV series The Real Housewives of Atlanta and was a member of the cast of The Celebrity Apprentice 7 (2015). Moore rose to prominence in 1993 after winning the Miss USA contest which led her to compete in that year's Miss Universe pageant ultimately landing her among the top six. She subsequently appeared in films including Waiting To Exhale (1995) along side Qiana M. Williams and Deliver Us From Eva (2003), and in multiple television series including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Parent 'Hood, and Girlfriends. Moore has produced several film projects, had a book published, and starred in her own exercise video.
Moore was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of teenagers Patricia Moore and Ronald Grant, and was raised by her paternal grandmother and aunt after her mother abandoned her at birth. The reality TV show star revealed that her mother never named her. "Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me,” Kenya wrote. “Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don’t exist. She pretends I’m invisible" Kenya revealed on her Bravo blog. She graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1989 and attended Wayne State University, where she majored in psychology and minored in communication, She began modeling at the age of 14 and in the course of her modeling career was the January 1992 cover girl for Chicago-based Johnson Publishing Company's Ebony Man's (EM) magazine. She also became a model for the Ebony Fashion Fair cosmetic line. At 22, Moore won Miss Michigan USA (1993) and then became the second African American woman to win Miss USA. She then represented the United States in the Miss Universe 1993 pageant and placed sixth.
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