Kim Alexis
“What I want women to hear is, ‘I’m good enough.’ You may not have a perfect body, but you are still a good person.”
By GinGer BrashinGer
S
ome women just seem to have it all—and isn’t it wonderful when they are willing to
share?
Kim Alexis, supermodel, television personality, author, fitness expert, and most importantly, wife and mother, generously shares her life experiences with women everywhere. As a role model and spokesperson for women’s issues, Kim gives back to a society that embraced her outer beauty by sharing her inner beauty, too.
“I happen to be a woman of many interests,” Kim says. “But, women’s issues just seem to be where my passion lies.”
Her own story, a winding path which spiraled upward to the present day, could have gone in a different direction had it not been
for a loving family, one which always supported her aspirations.
“I was blessed with a great family life,” Alexis said of her early years with parents from whom she watched, listened, and learned. “I just always had positive reinforcement.”
So, when Kim Alexis was “discovered” as a teenager, her life plans changed dramatically, and her eyes were opened to a whole new way of life.
“I really saw a value change when I left my small town at the age of 18 for New York City,” she recalled. “I was almost stripped of who I was because the people I was with didn’t care about the straight A’s I was getting in school or that I wanted to be a pharmacist. I was often with sharp-tongued people who were
critical of things I hadn’t even dreamed of caring about before— like hair and makeup. I just shut up and learned.”
While listening and learning as she had done in her home, Kim developed the traits that helped her to move successfully within the diverse worlds of glamour and entertainment to a life of inspiration and spirituality.
Fulfilling her desire to become a wife and mother at a young age (“I always had a desire to get married and have children”), Kim’s first marriage in the early 80s ended in divorce after eight years. However, her dream of becoming a mother was realized with the birth of her two sons, life-changing events that helped
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