SKM Alert: Kimora Talks Babies & Parenting

In a recent interview with OK! Magazine, SKM Kimora Lee Simmons shared lots of details about her family-baby Kenzo, Ming and Aoki Lee and partner Djimon. She dishes about her new clothing line and how she’s lost almost 50 pounds since having cutie Kenzo.

On the subject of adding more kids to the brood:

“I can definitely see myself having more. I know Djimon wants more. I would love to have another little boy.”

On being the more strict parent:

“I’m very tough around the house,” she says. “We don’t watch a lot of TV. Bedtime, it’s a set time every day – it’s 8:00. We read, read, read. If anyone tells me, ‘mom, I’m bored,’ mom gets out the homework.”

She continues, “We do tutoring 2-3 times a week religiously because we travel so much. The girls are on TV, too, and the girls are at Fashion Week, too. They have a little extra perks in life. They work extra hard sometimes. It’s very tough. They’re not forced to do it. They don’t have to come out on the runway and wave. They want to do it. If you want to do that, you have to have all your homework done before the other kids do because the other kids aren’t on the runways at night.”

For Ming and Aoki, TV time is restricted to 30 minutes of educational programming per day on channels including National Geographic and Animal Planet.

“I’m not saying it’s banned, but we don’t do all the kiddie channels and the non-educational crap and the things that melt your brain,” she says. “They watch some kids shows, but I feel like their brain should be always active and they should be learning and they should be inspired to be creative. I don’t want to put them in front of the TV and let them melt into nothingness. I want everything to be educational and constructive about their time and their creativity. I want them to expand their minds, and not to be tunneled in by garbage you see on TV. It’s too much.”

On her reality show, we often got a glimpse of the meals being prepared by the family’s personal chef. She’s thankful they eat healthy and aren’t very picky:

“They don’t eat crap; they don’t watch crap. They’re not those kids. They eat lots of vegetables, they eat salads. They eat very, very healthy. They take a lunch to school. I prepare it for them every day. They don’t always eat at school. They don’t do a lot of sweets. Sweets are definitely a treat.”

Kimora is of African-American, Korean and Japanese decent and Djimon is African. How are they balancing all this culture under one roof is a question many people probably wonder:

“I expose the children to a lot of different things,” she says. “Now we’re focusing on French because Djimon is French, and speaks fluent French. Culture also comes into our diet. We eat lots of Asian food, lots of African dishes. We try to expand our horizons. The girls have gone to Africa, the girls have gone to different areas in Asia. They’re well-rounded individuals, and they’re very interesting young people. I’m very blessed.”

My favorite part of watching her reality show was tuning in to see the family get ready to tackle various destinations. For them, travel is a very important part of their life:

“We travel a lot,” she says. “We go to Europe and Asia; we go to the islands. It’s a lot. It’s a lot to get everything together and lug all your kids and their gear everywhere, but it’s well worth it, and it’s a lot of fun. I think it’s important to create those milestones for children, and to expand their horizons and let them see the world and the people around them so they know they’re not the only ones.”

If you think being rich and famous will mean that Kimora is raising snobby children, think again:

“I want them to know that I love and support them no matter what their choices are in life,” she says. “I can’t make their choices for them, but I hope to try and guide them in the right way, and teach them about compassion, spirituality, caring about others and caring about yourself. Self-respect, and respecting others.”

She adds, “Anyone who knows my kids will say they’re very well-behaved, and that’s no easy feat. That’s nothing you can do by raising your kids on the sidelines or letting someone else do it for you. I’m a very, very hands-on, involved mother. My life revolves first and foremost around my children, and everything else has to fall into place and take a backseat to that.”

I love Kimora and can’t wait to see the new season of Style Network’s Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane, which premieres March 21 at 9/8c. Tune in for your dose of fabulousness!

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Kimora Lee arrives at the 18th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party held at Pacific Design Center on March 7, 2010 in West Hollywood, California.

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