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Kiana Tom
Born	Hawaii, US^[1]
Occupation(s)	Personal trainer group fitness instructor entrepreneur model actress
Years active	1995-2002
Known for	creator of Kiana's Flex Appeal
Spouse	Dennis Breshears (m. 2002; div. 2022)
Children	2
Website	www.kiana.com

Kiana Tom is an American former television host known for hosting Kiana's Flex Appeal on ESPN.^[2]

Career

In 1994 Tom published Kiana's Body Sculpting through Macmillan Publishers; the following year she began hosting her own fitness series on ESPN, Kiana's Flex Appeal.^[3]^[4] In 1995 Tom made her acting debut in a cameo role in the straight-to-video Cyber Bandits, followed by a role in the 1999 film Universal Soldier: The Return.^[5] She also appeared in a cameo appearance with Eminem in the music video for "Without Me."^[6]

Tom has posed nude for the May 2002 edition of Playboy magazine.^[7] According to one interview, she was such a perfectionist that she had to wait until the right time in her career where she felt her body was in the best shape it had ever been.^[8]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Cyber Bandits	Anastasia	Direct-to-video
1998	The Drew Carey Show	Tia	Episode: Two Weddings and a Funeral for a Refrigerator
1999	Universal Soldier: The Return	Maggie
2001	Family Law	Robin Unger	Episode: Film at Eleven
2002	Without Me	Herself	Music Video

References

^ McMullin, Juliet (2016-06-16). The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-1-315-41832-2.
^ "Kiana Tom". MidWeek. 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
^ "Hard bodies, hard numbers". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
^ "Macmillan". Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (21 August 1999). "FILM REVIEW; Soldiers Dying to Serve, And Die to Serve They Do". The New York Times.
^ Moss, Corey (August 23, 2002). "VMA LENS RECAP: THE STORY BEHIND EMINEM'S 'WITHOUT ME'". MTV.com. Archived from the original on September 6, 2014. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
^ Harris, Elliot (March 26, 2002). "Exercising her job options". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
^ "Kiana Tom". www.warnerbros.com. April 5, 2002. Archived from the original on January 17, 2007. Retrieved June 23, 2024.

External links

Official website
Kiana Tom at IMDb

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