Years active: 2014 - present (started around 31 years old; 10 years in the business)
About Joelle Kayembe
Joelle Kayembe (born May 31, 1983) is a Congolese model and actress.
Kayembe became the first black woman to grace the covers of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. She also appeared in several other magazines such as Cosmopolitan and Elle as well as a Sprite Zero advertisement. Kayembe is also a painter for select clients. She appeared in Ludacris's video for "Pimpin' all Over the World".[
Kayembe was a finalist in the International Supermodel 2005 competition held in China. She has walked the runways at SA Fashion Week and Johannesburg Fashion Week.
On September 27, 2008, Kayembe married the Platfields Ltd. mining magnate Bongani Mbindwane in a traditional ceremony. The pair had dated on and off for about four years. A civil ceremony was postponed when it was discovered that Kayembe was pregnant and because they were having problems. After she decided to terminate the pregnancy, he called her a murderer. Kayembe instituted divorce proceedings in October 2009, but Mbindwane countered that they were never legally married.
In April 2010, she proposed R10-million as a settlement, settling grievances including charges of assault against Mbindwane. In November, Kayembe was ordered out of their house by January 2011 by a court.
Kayembe starred as Zina in Jérôme Salle's 2013 film Zulu.
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