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Molly Sims has been a family title for many years. However it looks like each time we hear from her, she’s as much as one thing new. The mannequin, actor, podcaster, and YSE Magnificence founder has been a grasp of reinvention and exploration for years.
She initially studied political science at Vanderbilt, till a buddy steered she take some modeling photographs with a photographer she knew. Sims was hooked; she despatched her images to companies throughout the nation and signed with the primary company she met with, Subsequent Mannequin Administration, which is her company to today. Sims spent the subsequent few years rising by means of the ranks of the modeling world, transitioning from catalog to editorial and finally touchdown a canopy of Vogue France.
Seeking to increase her world, Sims transitioned into the world of movie and TV. She rapidly landed a number of internet hosting gigs earlier than being forged as Delinda Deline on the hit NBC drama Las Vegas. What she thought could be a few-month gig ended up lasting 5 seasons and over 100 episodes.
During the last decade, Sims has continued to increase her résumé, appearing in numerous different movie and TV initiatives, writing two books, and in 2021 launching a podcast, Lipstick on the Rim, together with her greatest buddy Emese Gormley. Their objective? To have the exhausting, TMI, or nitty-gritty conversations about being a lady that they want somebody would speak about. During the last three years, they’ve coated subjects from physique positivity and burnout to being pregnant pores and skin and anxiousness, constructing a following of devoted listeners who love their frankness and humorousness.
However Sims wasn’t completed there: In 2023, after combating hyperpigmentation, melasma, and different pores and skin points for years, she launched YSE Magnificence. Her efficient, unfussy formulation have change into cult favorites. (The Vast Awake eye cream is presently offered out with a ready checklist!)
Sims is consistently as much as one thing new, whether or not it is growing new merchandise for YSE that assist ladies with their pores and skin considerations or cooking up new and thrilling initiatives by means of her manufacturing firm, One thing Pleased Productions. Hearken to the newest episode of Second Life to listen to extra about how perseverance has at all times served her properly, and store under for a few of our YSE Magnificence favorites.
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