Kim sunee and olivier baussan biography
In Sweden in , she met and entered into a long-term romantic relationship with Olivier Baussan, founder of the L'Occitane en Provence cosmetics company.!
Sunée, Kim 1970-
PERSONAL:
Surname pronounced "soo-nay"; born 1970, in Korea; daughter of adoptive parents.
Education: Graduated from a liberal-arts college in FL.
ADDRESSES:
Home—Birmingham, AL. info@kimSunée.com.
CAREER:
Cottage Living magazine, Birmingham, AL, founding food editor.
Worked as food editor for Southern Living magazine.
WRITINGS:
Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (memoir), Grand Central Publishing (New York, NY), 2008.
SIDELIGHTS:
Kim Sunée's memoir, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home, traces her unusual life and the important roles played in it by food and travel.
The dashing Olivier Baussan, the philanthropic founder of the perfume company L'Occitane, swept the year old Sunée off to France and into.
Sunée was born in South Korea, and at a very young age she was abandoned in a crowded marketplace by her mother, who told her she would return, but never did. Three days later, the hungry child was picked up by the authorities.
She was adopted by a well-to-do American couple and raised in a large, extended family that included another adop