Kathy Ireland
Kathy Ireland
Kathleen Marie "Kathy" Irelandis an American model and actress, turned author and entrepreneur. Ireland was a supermodel in the 1980s and 1990s, best known for appearing in 13 consecutive Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. In 1993, she founded a brand marketing company, "kathy ireland Worldwide", which has made her one of the wealthiest former models in the world...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionModel
Date of Birth20 March 1963
CityGlendale, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I know that I've been blessed in many ways, and I was fortunate enough to travel the world and meet a lot of interesting people. But I never felt that the modeling career was all that important.
Maintain a good balance. A personal life adds dimensions to your professional life and vice versa. It helps nurture creativity through a deeper understanding of yourself.
It's important to find one that complements your body and not try to fit into something that doesn't work.
I like to experiment a lot and invent things.
An agenda is not a bad thing.
I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.
The mission statement of my company, Kathy Ireland Worldwide, is to find solutions for families, especially busy moms. I'm reaching out to busy moms because that's what I am. That's what I know, and I know this woman has been underserved.
I feel I'm able to serve my customer by knowing what she or he wants. One of the ways I'm able to do this is through my website, and email: people give me great ideas, tell me what they want, what they don't want. It's really instrumental, and helps me stay in touch with people.
I'm a curious person. I like to ask questions.
Beauty comes from the inside.
The entire time I was modeling, I was trying and failing at businesses. In fact, we would have started our business much sooner had I been more successful.
But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.
Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.
We expanded the brand to include a whole line of apparel and accessories, but we quickly learned that it was not good to have one channel of distribution.