Kenya Moore

About

Kenya Summer Moore (born January 24, 1971) is an American actress, television personality, author, entrepreneur, and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1993, however, likely better known for starring on The Real Housewives of Atlanta (2012–2025).
As an actress, she’s appeared in films and television shows including; Waiting to Exhale (1995), Senseless (1998), The Parent ‘Hood (1998–1999), In the House (1999), Deliver Us from Eva (2003), Girlfriends (2004), I Know Who Killed Me (2007).

Moore was born on January 24, 1971 in Detroit, Michigan to teenagers Patricia Moore and Ronald Grant and raised by her paternal grandmother Doris Grant(1931–2017) and aunt after her mother abandoned her three days after her birth. The reality-TV-show star revealed that her mother never named her. “Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me,” Kenya wrote. “Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don’t exist. She pretends I’m invisible,” Kenya revealed on her Bravo blog. Moore graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1989. While still in high school…