A rural Illinois teen model turned journalist, socialite, jewelry designer, and single mother, Kelly Killoren Bensimon made a splash as the newest star of Bravo TV’s The Real Housewives of New York City and spent the season in an infamous battle with co-star Bethenny Frankel. An accomplished model, Bensimon was the face of Clarins and has graced the pages of Elle, Bazaar and Cosmopolitan. Bensimon is the author of three books, a former Editor of Elle Accessories and an editor with Gotham and Hamptons magazines. In this interview Bensimon shares the inside details of her career, the show, and for the first time, reveals her plans on returning next season. She is passionate about life and dances to the beat of her own drum and that is why I’m Obsessed with Kelly Killoren Bensimon.
XO,
Sam
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Man, I love this girl! what an exciting,interesting and exhilarating personality! Dang another reality show I’m gonna be watching. Great interview Samantha!! thanks for sharing
May 26th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
[...] Everyone’s favorite New York City housewife you love to hate plans on coming back for another season and lucky for us, she sat down for an exclusive interview with Samantha Ettus [Obsessed] [...]
May 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
Theee two women are vapid. God, no wonder men run for the younger girls in this city. Time and experience has provided them with nothing to offer.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Yeah, nikki meek trying watching her. She’s a mess! I don’t know what she’s on, but delusion is a grand thing isn’t it. BTW, the resume above is highly inflated. She’s editor-at-large which is a glorified title for an occasional stringer. Kinda like her “Ivy League” (read night school) Columbia degree.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
I thought you did a fine job on the interview. But this Kelly woman comes across as a vapid, empty 17 year old airhead. Her “explanations” of the demise of her marriage, the her failure at the magazine (after just 2 issues), her “books” — the truth is that without her divorce settlement and the property the guy gave her, she has nothing.
For kicks I ordered used copies of her books - they are about as sophisticated as high school yearbooks — lots of random photos graphs with a few meaningless sentences every 20 or 30 pages. They were laughable.
And Bensimon always seems to have an explanation about why everyone else is the cause of her failures — it’s politics at the magazine, its that her “amazing” husband well, she just kinda outgrew him?…and she doesn’t like what Bethenny wears to treat her like dirt …and her boyfriend of many months needs a lot of love so..she hit him?
Bensimon has zero social skills, zero sense of reality…maybe the “reality show” is the closest she’s ever come to it. She is the sick woman, not her nearly underage boyfreinds, or her overage husband.
Your gracious interview allowed her to show herself for the empty fool that she is.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
Also, she graduated college in 1998 - 11 years after she graduated from high school and years after her marriage. She probably wasn’t doing school and modeling for very long at the same time.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
Wow. Kelly, you are Fabulous……fabulously uninteresting. You are not nearly as interesting as you think you are.
” I don’t understand what you are talking about.”
And I, you Kelly.
May 26th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
[...] find out more than you’ve ever wanted to know about Kelly Bensimon in this video interview on Obsessed TV. She talks about the Bethenny fight around the 20 minute mark. My favorite is her story about [...]
May 26th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
The interviewer,Samantha Ettus,was fantastic. Kelly was clever and displayed the manipulative and devious behavior that everyone is aware of. She was able to avoid all of the questions by pluging her jewelry, her books, and her career. She knows that without this reality show she will go back to her imaginary life and be forgotten in 2 seconds. Otherwise, why on earth would she return for another season with the most incredible group of females on this earth. The other ladies on the show make it obvious that Kelly needs therapy. Kelly Bensimon is a nut case!
May 27th, 2009 at 1:23 am
[...] Bensimon sat down for a very informative, lengthy (35 minutes!) interview with Samantha Ettus for Obsessed TV, in which she says she’s “infamous,” wrote an “important” book on her [...]
May 27th, 2009 at 2:44 am
Man, I love this girl! what an exciting,interesting and exhilarating personality! Dang another reality show I’m gonna be watching. Great interview Samantha!! thanks for sharing
May 27th, 2009 at 3:16 am
[...] Bensimon sat down for a really informative, extensive (35 minutes!) talk with Samantha Ettus for Obsessed TV, in which she says she’s “infamous,” wrote an “important” book on her [...]
May 27th, 2009 at 4:42 am
favorite quote “he’s a broken toy” i think that says it all.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:27 am
Hmm, a few thoughts:
1. I wasn’t aware that you could beg your way into Columbia.
2. If she speaks French, I am Micky Mouse.
3. She married a rich and famous fashion photographer because he was “so different.”
4. You can’t write a “tangible dissertation” on a BlackBerry.
5. Someone making a little jab at your sad ego isn’t automatically a “bully.”
6. Bethenny really didn’t resemble Joan Collins.
7. I took a shot everytime she said “amazing.” I now have to pee and the room is spinning.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:00 am
JP, I don’t know where you get the idea men are running for the younger women. Attractive women get a lot of attention at any age.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Kelly seems way less high than usual - she’s practically coherent. But she’s still an overtan, delusional pathological liar.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Nice jewelry line. “We took Pocohontas out of the canoe and put her in the disco. It’s the recession, she wants to have fun.”
Um, that’s cultural appropriation, and wildly insensitive. I hope she’s donating a portion of the proceeds to Native American charities.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Kelly is a bona fide nut case. She is most probably one of the MOST insecure individuals I have seen.
She is full of s*@t and I am amazed that someone with her lack of intellect has even gotten to this point.
She definitely has ridden many a coat tail.
May 27th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Kelly is so boring. Who cares about her dull life that has gotten no-where. She is a reality tv star- BIG DEAL!
The only reason that she is at this point is due to her ex-husband!
WHY WOULD ANYONE LISTEN TO THIS AIR-HEAD NUT CASE FOR A HALF AN HOUR! BORINGGGGGGG!
Kelly go back to the Hamptons and find yourself another rich man so that you can feed your children!
THE Funniest part is when she keeps saying how she has a “AWESOME LIFE”, constantly says “AMAZING”, and trys to get away from the “WHY DID YOU AND YOUR HUSBAND DIVORCE” question. YOUR A WASTE KELLY!
May 27th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it. I think it’s all been said in the previous comments. This woman is just disgusting. Someone, please count how many times she says “to be honest with you.” She is so bleeding inarticulate.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Kelly says the things about herself that OTHER people should say about you… It’s like telling people your ‘classy’… or ‘brilliant’… or ‘beautiful’…. or ‘authentic’ If it’s true, other people will notice it in you.
In her completely inaccurate descriptions of herself, she reveals a person who is so clearly out of touch, and desperately trying to convince herself that she is all these things that she aspires to be. In addition, she seems to think she is really ‘fun’ and ’silly’ and ‘witty’… she is so clearly oblivious. “C’mon (looks at watch) I gotta go (snaps fingers) I have a party to get to…”
May 27th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Like, my ears are numb from all the “like”s and “to be honest with you”s.
May 27th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I don’t think she took a breath once in 30 minutes. It’s almost as if she just keeps talking to avoid a real interview. I too found her self described attributes of ‘classy’ and ‘with integrity’ and that ‘people will know I am….” as sad because she is selling herself and it comes off wrong. If I were to sit down for lunch with her my advice would be to stop doing that and know that OTHER people saying these things about her is what carries weight. It is an insecurity at a deep level. She has to slow down, calm down, listen, and go to therapy.
May 27th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
She says she lost the modeling contest to Cindy Crawford because Cindy was “much” older than her - a woman! That she was just 16. She and Cindy were born one year apart! And why does Kelly insist she was married at a young age? She was 28 years old when she was married.
May 27th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
If I were interviewing her I would notbe able to hold back my laughing at how fake, delusional and rediculous this woman is. “well Cindy is older than me”… um thats not what she was asking but thanks. Pathertic. She talks like a teenager on drugs.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I find it hard to believe someone would ramble on for 34 plus minutes and really have nothing to say except how fabulous and cool SHE seems to think and obviously believes she is.
It is sad that she lives in this make believe world she has created for herself.
May 27th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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May 27th, 2009 at 11:59 am
Nice jewelry line. “We took Pocohontas out of the canoe and put her in the disco. It’s the recession, she wants to have fun.”
Actually, for the SECOND time now she said she took Pocohontas out of the “kayak” so she could have some fun. Maybe she thinks American Indians rented kayaks for a day of fun while up in the Hamptons.
It’s interesting to see an adult woman, who is also a mother, speak with the same vocabulary and intonation of an adolescent who follows the pack of popular girls out of fear of being left out. Says a lot about who Kelley wants to be identified with.
BUT stranger is Samantha’s voice - what is it these days with women speaking with the pitch and intonation of a little girl? She sounds like a five year old girl. It’s very disturbing. Use your big girl voice, Samantha.
It was my first and last time watching an Obsessed interview.
May 27th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
I was truly offended when she did an imitation of “Tyra”
“Oh! Honey….” Does she think that all black people speak that way?
OH, Honey, Tyra may return to kick your ass. Now THAT is must-see TV.
May 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Amazing. Amazing. Amazing. She’s in a very small bubble, her own words. Married at 28, so young, so now we believe she’s still oh so young. Look at me. Look at me. I’m so wonderful. I’m amazing. Wrote a loser book, American Style: it was a NO-seller. I hate this ugly Kellamity woman.
May 28th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Why for the love of God is she going back on the show? She is the worst thing to hit the airwaves since television was invented. There is no good reason for her to be in the public eye except to make more of a FOOL of herself. She is without a doubt the biggest idiot in the world and needs to stay off those illegal drugs. A good psychiatrist and a looooooooong stay in a mental ward is in order. I’M DONE WITH THE SHOW THANKS TO HER.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:01 am
WHAT A DISGRACE TO WOMEN EVERYWHERE.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:04 am
Nobody wants to see the has been. Get her back to the planet she came from. There can’t be anyone this dumb on this planet.
May 28th, 2009 at 1:08 am
This chick is out to lunch. She has no business on TV. I will never watch this show again.
May 28th, 2009 at 2:58 am
I think she is great. It’s easy to hate her because she is beautiful. These hateful comments make me laugh…so many angry people.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:11 am
When I first saw this interview, I was reluctant to watch. I had read and heard about this woman-she was portrayed in the media as a totally bully and self centered. But, since I’m a huge of fan of obsessedtv, I decided to watch. For once, the media was right, my opinion on this interview, she comes across as an immature 41 year old and not authentic. I, also, felt she wasn’t answering some of the questions, but would go into tangents. After watching this interview, I still have no idea who the real Kelly Killoren Bensimon is.
May 28th, 2009 at 11:20 am
He’s a “broken toy.” What a thing to tell your kids. Guess what, honey? We’re all a little broken inside, including you. Here, have a slice of humble pie.
May 28th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
What exactly did she say? No direct answers, blames everyone, and thinks she is infamous. To the blogger who counted the amazings, you should have taken a shot everytime she messed with her hair. You would have passed out and not watched the whole thing. I must be as crazy as she is, I watched the whole thing sober and am now blogging.
Don’t you have to be invented to reinvent yourself?
May 28th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I was like, ok, let me take teh time to sit here and watch for 35 minutes and give her a chance to show me something else when she has the opportunity to say whatever she likes and she isn’t edited. The editing wasn’t the issue. She lives he LALA land. She really has not idea that she has anything wrong with her and I think that is why we hate her.
I really hope that bravo doesn’t bring her back because I can’t watch another season with her.
May 28th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
One question I wished you’d asked? What’s up with those boobs?
Oh, and you ask about her running with her hair down. Hello?
You don’t ask her about running in the middle of NYC traffic.
Lousy lame interview.
May 28th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I didn’t finish the video because 34 minutes of watching this poor hag with a leathery crack-head face talk like a drugged teenager about how delusional she is.. is just too much.
What a joke of a girl. An inarticulate, pitiful, insecure nut of a girl. If we have to see her for 1 more season (why she would agree to that is a sign of her debilitating idiocy) can Bravo at least ‘accidentally’ mute her mic? It’d be a lot easier to ignore subtitles.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Despite the gross sucking-up, I am glad for this interview. It shows that this crazy woman is exactly as sketchy as we thought she was. She never explains anything, babbles about nothing, and is just digging herself into a deeper hole. Please do come back next season, you crackhead.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Kelly Bensimon, you are a liar and you are delusional. You should get a grip and wake up. Your a nut, like don’t you know?
May 30th, 2009 at 6:51 am
Sam, Why did you interview Ms. Bensimon? Why were you obsessed with her? You have interviewed many compelling and nuanced people, so I don’t understand why you chose to interview Ms. Bensimon. I wish you all the best in your endeavors.
May 30th, 2009 at 11:06 am
So why does she say “like” ten times in every sentence? It makes her sound, like, really like, ignorant, and like, like she thinks she’s really, like a 1980’s surfer chic.
May 31st, 2009 at 1:58 am
Kelly is just plain stupid.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Although I think Kelly is very pretty and attractive but I do feel that she should be over herself. I don’t think she is really capable of doing all the things that she says she does. I doubt she even went to Columbia and she has some sort of success because she had a older rich ex husband. Kelly needs to get overself. She comes across as being the type that likes to be around rich famous people because to her thats exciting. Having said that I wish her well because I don’t think shes a mean person, she just as priorities to be around certain things and people to get her ahead.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I agree that kelly likes to be around famous rich interesting people because that will certainly make herself look better. She needs to be on Housewives to promote whatever she is pushing and make some money. Her use of the word amazing and wonderful is boring really. Kelly is where shes at today because she married well, she doesn’t seem that smart or sucessful at anything really.
May 31st, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Kelly Bensimon really is a lier. She went to a Columbia extension program that anyone can go to really. She is a bit of a fraud but I think she is pretty. Shes someone that I wouldn’t trust hanging out with unless she can benefit from you she wouldn’t pursue you as a friend. Shes the kind of HS girl that wants to be friends with the class president, head cheerleader etc.
June 1st, 2009 at 10:50 am
I keep wondering where are Kelly’s family (I assume she doesn’t have any real friends..)? Seriously, I feel sorry for her..doesn’t she have anyone in her life - even her ex - the father of her kids - who can use their influence and explain to her - like she’s a four year old - that she just comes off as a complete wackjob? She’s clearly socially and emotionally retarded (and believe me - I would only use that word if it was the ONLY one that fit; I’m very PC) - I just dont undestand why no one in her life is telling her the truth. It’s so incredibly sad. I feel sorry for her kids.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:03 am
Kelly is the biggest joke I have ever seen in my life!! She really is on the same planet that we all live in. She is an air headed, stupid idiot. I hope Bethenny whoops that ass on the next season
June 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I didn’t care for Kelly before the interview on obsessed and now I realize she really needs help. She seems deluded and dishonest. Her vocabulary is limited and I doubt she can speak French when she can’t speak English correctly? If she wasn’t so outspoken all of her shortcomings wouldn’t be so obvious. Kelly needs to be quiet, listen and take an English grammar course. She is beyond DELUSIONAL!
June 3rd, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Wow! She is nuts! was she on the same show I watched? she went crazy on Bethenny when all she was doing is leaving the bar!not to mention she was an hour and half late! Kelly please get HELP!!!
June 4th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Oh yeah, I am SO OBSESSED with Kelly,after seeing this, just like you Samantha. NOT. I am going to barf. This chick is beyond heinous and ridiculous. She needs to be checked into a narcissistic personality disorder clinic, stat. She is a delusional, pathological liar, and also an idiot. It should be illegal for people like this to breed. Talk about revisionist history. Yikes. Please go away. You give women, indeed, human beings, a bad name. I think you might be one of the most vile people I have ever witnessed. Oh no, wait. You and Kate Gosselin should ride off together into the sunset and implode in NPD hell.
So long, biatch.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Sam
you look so washed out in this interview. Your skin, your ill fitting dress.. are you pregnant?
June 10th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
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July 4th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
The most interesting part of this interview are the comments about. She is clearly like like like dumb. They would skin her alive in NJ.
July 28th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
this woman is obviously RETARDED- wow, i can’t believe how retarded she is. And no, she doesn’t speak more than 3 words of French.
July 28th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
if this retard touches her hair one more time, I am going to slap her hard!