Model Mom/ Proud Girl from Lynn
Graduate of Lynn Classical High School Married to Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker; mother of three “healthy” girls Autumn, Sonnet and True. Was Tommy Hilfiger’s first African American model Met husband on the Boston film set of “Blown Away.” She played his girlfriend. Recently came “home” to treat girls from Girls Inc. of Lynn to an inspirational dinner and to launch her own lip gloss line, Kissable Couture, at high school friend’s boutique.
Loves it when: her kids say, “No our Mom’s not from Boston! She’s from Lynn!”
On being a celebrity: “I have fun with it and I haven’t forgotten where I come from. Sometimes someone at a party will make a big deal like `I went to school in France’ and I think, `Whatever! I’m here sipping the same champagne as you!”
Surreal moments: When Oprah or Mary J. Blige rings her on her cell phone as she’s carpooling her kids to school or soccer.
On being a “model mom” trying to blend in at a soccer game: “My kids say, `Mom, you’re not blending! You’re wearing three-inch heels and you have a film crew with a boom mic following you.'”
How she juggles being a model, TV spokesperson, entrepreneur, really good friend, mom and wife: “I’ve got the world’s best `manny!’ He can do everything. He teaches us hip-hop; he can pick out Manolos, hang with the soccer moms and plan parties. And he makes a mean apple crumble!”
Forest as father: “He opens his eyes every day with a smile. If he’s got just a three-day break from filming, he’ll fly home even if it’s just for a day and a half.
Favorite part of award nights: Her “Team Whitaker” pre-parties that she plans and hosts at home. Gives daughters “best daughter awards” before heading to the red carpet.
Where to get Kissable: She gave high school friend Amy DePerrior owner of LuxeBeautiQue in Swampscott (right over the Lynn line) exclusivity in Mass. “Amy would make me up at the kitchen table and take Polaroids and say that I just had to become a model. Me and Amy – we were always the fashion-forward ones!”
Favorite Kissable Couture color: “Forest.”
Model Mom/ Proud Girl from Lynn
Graduate of Lynn Classical High School Married to Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker; mother of three “healthy” girls Autumn, Sonnet and True. Was Tommy Hilfiger’s first African American model Met husband on the Boston film set of “Blown Away.” She played his girlfriend. Recently came “home” to treat girls from Girls Inc. of Lynn to an inspirational dinner and to launch her own lip gloss line, Kissable Couture, at high school friend’s boutique.
Loves it when: her kids say, “No our Mom’s not from Boston! She’s from Lynn!”
On being a celebrity: “I have fun with it and I haven’t forgotten where I come from. Sometimes someone at a party will make a big deal like `I went to school in France’ and I think, `Whatever! I’m here sipping the same champagne as you!”
Surreal moments: When Oprah or Mary J. Blige rings her on her cell phone as she’s carpooling her kids to school or soccer.
On being a “model mom” trying to blend in at a soccer game: “My kids say, `Mom, you’re not blending! You’re wearing three-inch heels and you have a film crew with a boom mic following you.'”
How she juggles being a model, TV spokesperson, entrepreneur, really good friend, mom and wife: “I’ve got the world’s best `manny!’ He can do everything. He teaches us hip-hop; he can pick out Manolos, hang with the soccer moms and plan parties. And he makes a mean apple crumble!”
Forest as father: “He opens his eyes every day with a smile. If he’s got just a three-day break from filming, he’ll fly home even if it’s just for a day and a half.
Favorite part of award nights: Her “Team Whitaker” pre-parties that she plans and hosts at home. Gives daughters “best daughter awards” before heading to the red carpet.
Where to get Kissable: She gave high school friend Amy DePerrior owner of LuxeBeautiQue in Swampscott (right over the Lynn line) exclusivity in Mass. “Amy would make me up at the kitchen table and take Polaroids and say that I just had to become a model. Me and Amy – we were always the fashion-forward ones!”
Favorite Kissable Couture color: “Forest.”
Model Mom/ Proud Girl from Lynn
Graduate of Lynn Classical High School Married to Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker; mother of three “healthy” girls Autumn, Sonnet and True. Was Tommy Hilfiger’s first African American model Met husband on the Boston film set of “Blown Away.” She played his girlfriend. Recently came “home” to treat girls from Girls Inc. of Lynn to an inspirational dinner and to launch her own lip gloss line, Kissable Couture, at high school friend’s boutique.
Loves it when: her kids say, “No our Mom’s not from Boston! She’s from Lynn!”
On being a celebrity: “I have fun with it and I haven’t forgotten where I come from. Sometimes someone at a party will make a big deal like `I went to school in France’ and I think, `Whatever! I’m here sipping the same champagne as you!”
Surreal moments: When Oprah or Mary J. Blige rings her on her cell phone as she’s carpooling her kids to school or soccer.
On being a “model mom” trying to blend in at a soccer game: “My kids say, `Mom, you’re not blending! You’re wearing three-inch heels and you have a film crew with a boom mic following you.'”
How she juggles being a model, TV spokesperson, entrepreneur, really good friend, mom and wife: “I’ve got the world’s best `manny!’ He can do everything. He teaches us hip-hop; he can pick out Manolos, hang with the soccer moms and plan parties. And he makes a mean apple crumble!”
Forest as father: “He opens his eyes every day with a smile. If he’s got just a three-day break from filming, he’ll fly home even if it’s just for a day and a half.
Favorite part of award nights: Her “Team Whitaker” pre-parties that she plans and hosts at home. Gives daughters “best daughter awards” before heading to the red carpet.
Where to get Kissable: She gave high school friend Amy DePerrior owner of LuxeBeautiQue in Swampscott (right over the Lynn line) exclusivity in Mass. “Amy would make me up at the kitchen table and take Polaroids and say that I just had to become a model. Me and Amy – we were always the fashion-forward ones!”
Favorite Kissable Couture color: “ForeModel Mom/ Proud Girl from Lynn
Graduate of Lynn Classical High School Married to Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker; mother of three “healthy” girls Autumn, Sonnet and True. Was Tommy Hilfiger’s first African American model Met husband on the Boston film set of “Blown Away.” She played his girlfriend. Recently came “home” to treat girls from Girls Inc. of Lynn to an inspirational dinner and to launch her own lip gloss line, Kissable Couture, at high school friend’s boutique.
Loves it when: her kids say, “No our Mom’s not from Boston! She’s from Lynn!”
On being a celebrity: “I have fun with it and I haven’t forgotten where I come from. Sometimes someone at a party will make a big deal like `I went to school in France’ and I think, `Whatever! I’m here sipping the same champagne as you!”
Surreal moments: When Oprah or Mary J. Blige rings her on her cell phone as she’s carpooling her kids to school or soccer.
On being a “model mom” trying to blend in at a soccer game: “My kids say, `Mom, you’re not blending! You’re wearing three-inch heels and you have a film crew with a boom mic following you.'”
How she juggles being a model, TV spokesperson, entrepreneur, really good friend, mom and wife: “I’ve got the world’s best `manny!’ He can do everything. He teaches us hip-hop; he can pick out Manolos, hang with the soccer moms and plan parties. And he makes a mean apple crumble!”
Forest as father: “He opens his eyes every day with a smile. If he’s got just a three-day break from filming, he’ll fly home even if it’s just for a day and a half.
Favorite part of award nights: Her “Team Whitaker” pre-parties that she plans and hosts at home. Gives daughters “best daughter awards” before heading to the red carpet.
Where to get Kissable: She gave high school friend Amy DePerrior owner of LuxeBeautiQue in Swampscott (right over the Lynn line) exclusivity in Mass. “Amy would make me up at the kitchen table and take Polaroids and say that I just had to become a model. Me and Amy – we were always the fashion-forward ones!”
Favorite Kissable Couture color: “ForestModel Mom/ Proud Girl from Lynn
Graduate of Lynn Classical High School Married to Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker; mother of three “healthy” girls Autumn, Sonnet and True. Was Tommy Hilfiger’s first African American model Met husband on the Boston film set of “Blown Away.” She played his girlfriend. Recently came “home” to treat girls from Girls Inc. of Lynn to an inspirational dinner and to launch her own lip gloss line, Kissable Couture, at high school friend’s boutique.
Loves it when: her kids say, “No our Mom’s not from Boston! She’s from Lynn!”
On being a celebrity: “I have fun with it and I haven’t forgotten where I come from. Sometimes someone at a party will make a big deal like `I went to school in France’ and I think, `Whatever! I’m here sipping the same champagne as you!”
Surreal moments: When Oprah or Mary J. Blige rings her on her cell phone as she’s carpooling her kids to school or soccer.
On being a “model mom” trying to blend in at a soccer game: “My kids say, `Mom, you’re not blending! You’re wearing three-inch heels and you have a film crew with a boom mic following you.'”
How she juggles being a model, TV spokesperson, entrepreneur, really good friend, mom and wife: “I’ve got the world’s best `manny!’ He can do everything. He teaches us hip-hop; he can pick out Manolos, hang with the soccer moms and plan parties. And he makes a mean apple crumble!”
Forest as father: “He opens his eyes every day with a smile. If he’s got just a three-day break from filming, he’ll fly home even if it’s just for a day and a half.
Favorite part of award nights: Her “Team Whitaker” pre-parties that she plans and hosts at home. Gives daughters “best daughter awards” before heading to the red carpet.
Where to get Kissable: She gave high school friend Amy DePerrior owner of LuxeBeautiQue in Swampscott (right over the Lynn line) exclusivity in Mass. “Amy would make me up at the kitchen table and take Polaroids and say that I just had to become a model. Me and Amy – we were always the fashion-forward ones!”
Favorite Kissable Couture color: “Forest.Model Mom/ Proud Girl from Lynn
Graduate of Lynn Classical High School Married to Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker; mother of three “healthy” girls Autumn, Sonnet and True. Was Tommy Hilfiger’s first African American model Met husband on the Boston film set of “Blown Away.” She played his girlfriend. Recently came “home” to treat girls from Girls Inc. of Lynn to an inspirational dinner and to launch her own lip gloss line, Kissable Couture, at high school friend’s boutique.
Loves it when: her kids say, “No our Mom’s not from Boston! She’s from Lynn!”
On being a celebrity: “I have fun with it and I haven’t forgotten where I come from. Sometimes someone at a party will make a big deal like `I went to school in France’ and I think, `Whatever! I’m here sipping the same champagne as you!”
Surreal moments: When Oprah or Mary J. Blige rings her on her cell phone as she’s carpooling her kids to school or soccer.
On being a “model mom” trying to blend in at a soccer game: “My kids say, `Mom, you’re not blending! You’re wearing three-inch heels and you have a film crew with a boom mic following you.'”
How she juggles being a model, TV spokesperson, entrepreneur, really good friend, mom and wife: “I’ve got the world’s best `manny!’ He can do everything. He teaches us hip-hop; he can pick out Manolos, hang with the soccer moms and plan parties. And he makes a mean apple crumble!”
Forest as father: “He opens his eyes every day with a smile. If he’s got just a three-day break from filming, he’ll fly home even if it’s just for a day and a half.
Favorite part of award nights: Her “Team Whitaker” pre-parties that she plans and hosts at home. Gives daughters “best daughter awards” before heading to the red carpet.
Where to get Kissable: She gave high school friend Amy DePerrior owner of LuxeBeautiQue in Swampscott (right over the Lynn line) exclusivity in Mass. “Amy would make me up at the kitchen table and take Polaroids and say that I just had to become a model. Me and Amy – we were always the fashion-forward ones!”
Favorite Kissable Couture color: “Forest.”