Kimora Lee Simmons recently revealed that getting her children to participate in the television series Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane took a bit more than just excitement for the project.

In a conversation with E! News, Kimora openly discussed the lengths she went to in persuading her children, particularly her daughters Ming, 25, and Aoki, 23, to join her in front of the cameras once again.

“I had to bribe them,” she admitted with a chuckle to correspondent Will Marfuggi, while quickly adding, “I don’t think bribing is the right thing to do. It’s not something I consider normal.”

Kimora shared how her daughters were quite forthcoming about what it would take for them to participate. The list of incentives included everything from a “sports car” to an extensive “wardrobe of fancy stuff that you have to wear to work.” Having grown up in the public eye, Ming and Aoki recognized their bargaining power. “They took advantage of the situation, so producing the show ended up costing me more,” she quipped. “My girls were compensated more than anyone else. Everyone else worked for free. Well, I worked for free to make it happen.”

Life in Kimora’s household has never been dull. At 50, she is a mother to five children. She shares her daughters Ming and Aoki with ex-husband Russell Simmons, and is also mother to sons Kenzo, 16, Gary, 15, and Wolfe, 10. Despite Ming and Aoki being adults, Kimora notes that they still stay closely connected to home.

“They really haven’t moved out and moved on,” she explained to the outlet. “They do. They travel, they go around. They have their own places as well. But somehow they never really quite left the whole mess.”

The new E! series reunites the family more than a decade after the original Life in the Fab Lane, which aired from 2007 to 2011. While much has changed since then, Kimora says the fun, and chaos, of being a large blended family remains the show’s heart.

“I’m now a mom of five, but I have a lot of other kids all around,” she said. “I’ve changed jobs, careers a few times, husbands, investments. I acquired a bunch of stuff, gotten rid of a bunch of stuff. People are older. I am a boy mom. I was a girl mom. People have driver’s licenses. People are having car wrecks.”

That combination of motherhood, adulthood, and real-life family evolution is exactly what Kimora believes makes this next chapter worth watching. As she put it simply, “It’s life.”

Kimora: Back in the Fab Lane airs Tuesdays at 10 p.m. on E!

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