Kimora Lee Simmons is formally stepping again into the tv highlight, marking a return that displays how a lot her life has reworked since she final let cameras into her world. Years earlier than the present wave of superstar docuseries, Simmons helped outline the style along with her fashionable mix of style, motherhood, and enterprise on E!. After that interval, she made a deliberate option to stroll away from actuality TV and give attention to her rising household and increasing profession.

During her time away, every little thing about her day-to-day life shifted. “I was a mom of two,” Simmons instructed E! in an exclusive interview. “I’m now a mom of five, and I have a lot of other kids all around. I’ve changed careers a few times, husbands, investments. People are older — I’m a boy mom, I was a girl mom. People have driver’s licenses.” Those modifications — and the nonstop tempo that got here with them — are precisely what pushed folks near her to encourage a return to tv.

According to Simmons, she didn’t hunt down one other present. The concept got here from others who felt her actual life had advanced into one thing viewers would wish to see. “I feel like people around me are like, ‘Oh god, you’re so crazy. This is so much going on. You should have cameras,’” she stated. Even with that encouragement, she wasn’t instantly satisfied. She thought she had already closed that chapter. But these round her persevered till the conversations grew to become extra severe. “That ‘I’m really serious’ talk becomes a ‘here we go, we just need you to have a little meeting,’” she remembered. “And I’m like, ‘Really?’”

Now, greater than a decade since her final actuality collection, she’s returning with Kimora: Back within the Fab Lane, premiering December 2 on E!. The new present follows her as she navigates life with older teenagers, youthful children, enterprise ventures, and a brand-new household dynamic. Her daughters, Ming and Aoki Lee, are additionally experiencing this comeback in another way. “They’re young adults, so I’m not there to protect them and do everything,” Simmons stated. “It’s been a journey.”