Kenza Fourati moved to Tunisia with her family when she was two months old, growing up in the coastal town of La Marsa.
24 Facts About Kenza Fourati
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Kenza Fourati's mother, Dora Bouchoucha, is a film producer, and her father, Kamel Kenza Fourati, is a radiologist.
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Kenza Fourati's paternal grandfather, Mohamed Fourati, was a cardiologist and a pioneer of heart transplant surgery in Tunisia.
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Kenza Fourati has a younger sister, Maleke, who is a PhD candidate in Development Economics at the UNSW Business School, in Australia.
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Kenza Fourati attended a French high school in Tunisia and began modelling after graduation.
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Kenza Fourati graduated with a Bachelor in Literature and Fine Arts in 2008.
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Kenza Fourati has said that she has wanted to become a director since she was young.
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Kenza Fourati has been studying acting at the New York Film Academy since 2011.
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Kenza Fourati speaks Arabic, English, French and "a little bit of Italian".
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In 2002, Kenza Fourati finished in third place in the Elite Model Look competition at the age of 15 and signed with Elite Model Management.
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Kenza Fourati has appeared in numerous international magazines, such as Vogue Paris, Elle, Marie Claire, L'officiel Voyage, Grazia, and GQ.
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Kenza Fourati has walked the runway for major fashion houses, including Armani, Celine, Gianfranco Ferre, Jean Paul Gaultier, Stella McCartney, Tommy Hilfiger, Valentino and Vivienne Westwood.
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In October 2010, with Tunisian actor Dhaffer L'Abidine, Kenza Fourati co-hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Carthage Film Festival.
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In November 2013, Kenza Fourati launched her own women's fashion line in Tunis, Tunisia.
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The fashion line was designed in New York by Kenza Fourati who was assisted by a pattern-maker; and manufactured in her home country of Tunisia.
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Kenza Fourati has since launched a shoe company, Osay, with Simone Carrica.
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Kenza Fourati appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011.
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Kenza Fourati was critical of the position the French government took, saying:.
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Kenza Fourati has lived in Tunisia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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On 26 April 2016, Kenza Fourati married Ayman Mohyeldin, a television journalist for NBC News, in an intimate ceremony in his home state of Georgia.
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Kenza Fourati shared photos from her wedding day on social media.
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Kenza Fourati wore an ivory bridal burnous over an ivory Balenciaga mini-dress for the ceremony in Marietta, Georgia.
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For photos taken in Savannah, Georgia, Kenza Fourati wore a custom Houghton "Moss" Gown.
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Kenza Fourati revealed in a "Vogue Arabia" interview that she was expecting her first child with husband, Ayman Mohyeldin, in early 2017.