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Kiana Tom (born March 14, 1965, as Joanne Kiana Tom) is an American former television host known for hosting Kiana's Flex Appeal on ESPN.

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. 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. She also appeared in a cameo appearance with Eminem in the music video for "Without Me."

Tom has posed nude for the May 2002 edition of Playboy magazine. 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.

Personal life

Tom was married to Dennis Breshears, a Deputy Fire Chief for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, from 2002 to 2022. She has two daughters, Anelalani and Kiana Jr.

Filmography

References

1. 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.
2. "DENNIS BRESHEARS VS JOANNE TOM". UniCourt. Retrieved 2024-11-26.
3. "Hard bodies, hard numbers". Salon.com. Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
4. "Macmillan". Archived from the original on 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2010-01-15.
5. Van Gelder, Lawrence (21 August 1999). "FILM REVIEW; Soldiers Dying to Serve, And Die to Serve They Do". The New York Times.
6. 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.
7. Harris, Elliot (March 26, 2002). "Exercising her job options". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on November 2, 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2010.
8. "Kiana Tom". www.warnerbros.com. April 5, 2002. Archived from the original on January 17, 2007. Retrieved June 23, 2024.
9. "Kiana Tom". MidWeek. 2013-01-16. Retrieved 2022-09-11.

External links

• Official website
• Kiana Tom at IMDb

• 1965 births
• American cheerleaders
• American exercise instructors
• American exercise and fitness writers
• Female models from Hawaii
• American film actresses
• American sports businesspeople
• American television hosts
• American women in business
• American writers of Chinese descent
• Businesspeople from Hawaii
• Native Hawaiian writers
• National Football League cheerleaders
• Living people
• Oakland Raiders personnel
• People from Maui
• Writers from Hawaii
• Hawaii people of Chinese descent
• American women non-fiction writers
• American women television hosts
• 21st-century American women