Kiara Kabukuru

[Urban Stylin]

she needs to make a comeback..i wonder if there are recent pics of her

 

[danielwarhol]

jones magazine 'Best in Beauty Issue'

Photographer: Dimitri Hyacinthe
(http://jonesmagazine.com/content/beauty.hair/711/hot.fire.jones.magazines.2nd.annual.best.beauty)

 

[danielwarhol]

The whole editorial is so beautiful. Glad to see her in something so chic.

Photographer: Dimitri Hyacinthe

(http://jonesmagazine.com/content/beauty.hair/711/hot.fire.jones.magazines.2nd.annual.best.beauty)

 

[Northern Star]

WOW! Thankyou for posting this. I love the cover and it's very striking, but the shot works so much better without text and not cropped.
Kiara looks amazing and so glad to see she is still working and on this evidence she really could make a major comeback.

 

[rubydon]

she's now with soul artist management in ny.

 

[moussemaker]

Kiara Kabukuru thought her hugely successful career as a model was over for good after a horrific traffic accident nearly killed her, but following several reconstructive surgeries and years of recovery, she is ready for her close up again!

The 37-year-old Ugandan beauty, who is a close friend of supermodel Gisele Bundchen, details her rise to fame as a top model in the 1990s, how her career was derailed after she was hit by an 18-wheel truck and left mutilated and mangled — and how she got her groove back and is returning to the modeling industry — in the March 2013 issue of W magazine, and RadarOnline.com has the details.

After escaping Uganda as a political refugee in early childhood and spending her youth in Los Angeles, she signed with a modeling agency around the age of 16, where her agent decided to change her name from Alice to Kiara, to make her appear more “exotic.”

Her first job was a Coke commercial, which led to a Levi’s ad, meetings with Calvin Klein, exclusive bookings with Gucci, a L’Oreal contract, a Vogue cover and palling around with fellow supermodels Stephanie Seymour, Naomi Campbell, Bridget Hall and Elaine Irwin.

“And then at the height of it all, I’m about to sign a contract with Covergirl, and I get into the accident,” she tells the fashion magazine.

Over Memorial Day weekend in 2000, she was riding her bike in New York City when an unlicensed driver of an 18-wheel truck slammed into her. After being dragged, screaming along the pavement, the truck finally stopped, and the model began picking up her teeth off of the ground.

“Everyone was looking at me like, ‘Oh, my God.’ And nobody would bring me a mirror,” she explains about the scenario at the hospital.

Not only had the skin on her arms and back been ripped off and her jaw, teeth and gums had to be reconstructed, but her ribs, pelvis, sacrum, pubic bone, and right ankle were broken.

“Any movement was excruciating,” Kabukuru, who was in a wheelchair for two months, explains about the painful recovery period. “And not being able to bathe or go to the bathroom on my own was devastating.”

In 2003 she moved back to Los Angeles where she started rigorous physical training as well as getting seven more reconstructive surgeries to rebuild her jaw, and somehow, she ended up with no visible scarring.

She started dabbling in modeling once again in 2008, but was “still a bit shell-shocked” and decided to move back to New York in 2010, where she did yoga every day and became a raw foodist.

A year ago, she says, Gisele suggested Kiara throw herself full time back into modeling. “I just knew there was something unfinished there,” Bundchen tells W. “I said, ‘Well, do you ever think about modeling again?’”

Bundchen helped her get her first gig with Carine Roitfeld’s magazine CR Fashion Book, and now Kabukuru is back in action and up for a major cosmetics contract.

“In my life, there have been all these reversals of fortune,” she explains. “I think I was proving to myself my strength and my ability to survive. And now I am ready.”

http://radaronline.com/exclusives/2013/02/kiara-kabukuru-accident-career-comeback-modeling-photos/

 

[simplylovely]

OMG that is awful! But she has proven how strong she is and that nothing, however tragic would stop her from following her dreams. Godbless you Kiara!

 

[Fiercification]

That's terrible . Now her absence from the industry during most of the 2000s does make sense. I'm so glad that she's back on her feet figuratively and literally today. Such an eternal stunner and can't wait to see new work from her!

 

[Firefly216]

Wow that's such a horrible accident
But I'm glad to hear she's coming back, she is one of my all time favorite models, maybe Tom Ford will help her out again

 

[Nefertiti87]

Horrible! She is a true fighter.

 

[rubydon]

Tom Ford F/W 2013

Tom hasn't forgotten her.

*uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com via chanelcouture09

 

[Firefly216]

Yes!!!

 

[Urban Stylin]

love the jones shoot and her TF runway appearance! Cant wait to see her in CR book

 

[Fiercification]

The highlight of this cast. Really excited to see her back on the runway!

 

[simplylovely]

style​

 

[Stereo_Flo]

Show Package – Paris F/W 13: IMG (Women)


models.com

 

[simplylovely]

Wow that so great that she is popping up at these major runway shows! She hasnt aged one bit!

 

[happycanadian]

she's gonna make a proper comeback. mark my words! it may not be HUUUGE like a million contracts all over the place, but i think she's gonna surprise a lot of folks and suddenly be on the radar. and it makes me SO happy!!! she's always been such a stellar model and with the things that she's come through in her life - that resilience and survivor mentality is undeniable. she is STRONG. perfect for Tom Ford. and i wouldn't at all be surprised to see her pop up in a Gucci ad again.

 

[rubydon]

She's now with IMG in New York.

 

[AD011620]

God! What an awful accident! So glad she managed to recover... She must be a very strong person and I am so thrilled she is back...