Kenya Moore: A Deep Dive into Her Dating History

Nov 06, 2025 0

Kenya Summer Moore (born January 24, 1971) is an American actress, author, entrepreneur, television personality, and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss USA 1993. She has been a prominent figure in the public eye, especially through her appearances on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta." With such a vibrant career, her personal life, particularly her dating history, has garnered significant attention.

One Atlanta peach has something in common with the six ladies of Bravo’s new series Dancing Queens: She believes she’s “probably happiest” when she’s dancing.

Kenya Moore at the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 2014

Early Life and Career

Moore was born in Detroit, Michigan, to teenage parents Patricia Moore and Ronald Grant and was raised by her paternal grandmother Doris Grant and aunt after her mother abandoned her three days after her birth. The reality-TV-show star revealed that her mother never named her. "Since birth, my mother made the decision at age 16 to pretend she never had me. She has never spoken to me," Kenya wrote. "Even if present in the same room with other people and family, she pretends that I simply don't exist. She pretends I'm invisible," Kenya revealed on her Bravo blog.

Moore graduated from Cass Technical High School in 1989. While still in high school, Moore experienced domestic violence from a much older boyfriend. Moore began modeling at the age of 14, and was the January 1992 cover girl for Ebony Man magazine. At 22, Moore won Miss Michigan USA 1993 and then became the second African American woman to win Miss USA.

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Moore has also produced and directed various projects and launched her own company, Moore Vision Media in 2008. On November 28, 2007, Moore published a book titled Game, Get Some!: What Women Really Want. In 2012, Moore released her debut single, "Gone With the Wind Fabulous." In 2013, Moore released her own exercise video, named "Kenya Moore: Booty Boot Camp".

Dancing Queen

How to WatchThe Real Housewives of Atlanta’s Kenya Moore, who called herself a dancing queen in a new interview with The Daily Dish, once competed in ballroom dancing on Dancing With The Stars, and said she’d do it again in a heartbeat.

Kenya told The Daily Dish if she was ever invited back “before they could even hang the phone up I will have my bags packed.” She said she still plans on taking ballroom dancing classes and learning styles like the tango, proving anybody can be a dancing queen.

“I have just a love and passion for dancing,” Kenya said. “Just having fun and living my best life, not caring who’s watching. It just makes me feel so good.” Kenya said her grandmother introduced her to dancing when she was only 4 or 5 years old and she’s “loved it ever since” - calling competing in dance a “dream come true.”

She competed on Season 30 in the fall of 2021, and made it six weeks before she was eliminated after an Argentine tango, one of many styles of competitive ballroom dancing in a long history that dates back to royal European courts in the 1700s. Kenya's not the only Bravoleb to take on Dancing with the Stars. She’s in good company with The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Teresa Guidice and The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ Erika Jayne, among others.

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Kenya had a lot of love for her partner on the show, Brandon Armstrong. She wrote on Instagram at the time, “If anyone embodies what I think Prince Charming would be it’s [Brandon]…what a good dancer, but what a great person! I now have a friend for life.” But she recently told The Daily Dish that while the two were once close, they no longer keep in touch.

“Brandon disappointed me a lot,” Kenya said. “After the show it was just a lot of things going on, but he ended up getting married, and after that like I don’t talk to him again.” But she was quick to clarify the two were always just friends.

“We never had any romantic chemistry,” Kenya said. “We never had any romantic interests. I looked at him like a little brother. I felt like I was the big sister he never had, and I felt such a connection with him, but yeah, we’re not in touch.”

Kenya also said the competition series and her friendship with Armstrong were what she needed at the time to get over her separation from ex-husband Marc Daly. She told The Daily Dish dancing “one hundred percent” helped her “get her body back” and her “feelings about myself just knowing that this is not the end.”

“I have all this other stuff to look forward to - my confidence, everything,” Kenya explained. “Dancing is amazing.

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Kenya Moore's Relationship History

She’s a beauty queen and reality TV star, so you might be surprised to find there aren’t many Kenya Moore exes. The list of Kenya Moore boyfriends is not very long, but does include serious relationships. Is Kenya Moore single? At the moment, it appears so.

Marriage to Marc Daly (2017-2021)

In June 2017, Kenya married businessman and New York restaurant owner Marc Daly. The two had only begun dating the previous year. In April 2018, the couple announced they were expecting their first child. On November 4 of that year, Kenya gave birth to their daughter, Brooklyn Doris Daly, who was reportedly named after the place where they met. (Marc's restaurant SoCo is located in Brooklyn.)

The couple struggled to make their marriage work and separated in 2019. They attempted to reconcile for the sake of their family, but ultimately it wasn't meant to be. In August 2021, Kenya officially filed for divorce.

Relationship with Matt Jordan (2015-2016)

Kenya Moore and Matt Jordan

From mid-2015 to mid-2016, Kenya was involved with Atlanta-based personal trainer Matt Jordan. The duo appeared together on Season 8 of the Real Housewives of Atlanta and, for the most part, things between the couple looked fine. However, behind closed doors, the relationship was much rockier than Kenya let on at the time. She eventually broke up with Matt following one of his violent outbursts. After claims that Matt was harassing and threatening Kenya, she got a 1-year restraining order against him in 2017.

Links to Terrell Owens (2014)

Terrell Owens

Back in 2014, Kenya was linked to NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens, with whom she starred on Season 7 of Celebrity Apprentice. The pair were never officially in a relationship and, according to Dish Nation (via Baller Alert), Kenya once said, "There was interest, but I caught him at a bad time and didn’t want to be part of the drama."

The outlet alleges that Kenya's crush on Terrell sparked some drama between her and actress Vivica A. Fox, who was part of their Celebrity Apprentice cast and reportedly also interested in Terrell.

Rumored Relationship with Allen Iverson (1990s)

Allen Iverson

According to Chit Chat Lane, Kenya Moore was rumored to have been with NBA player Allen Iverson sometime in the 1990s while he was married to his high school sweetheart, Tawanna Turner. Kenya has not commented on this rumor.

Rumored Relationships with Mike Tyson and Ludacris

Mike Tyson

Ludacris

According to FamousFix, Kenya’s famous ex-boyfriends also include Mike Tyson and Ludacris, though the exact time frame of these reported relationships is unknown. Kenya has never confirmed or even publicly commented on these rumors.

Current Status

Only recently single once again, Kenya doesn’t seem to be too wrapped up in the world of dating at the moment. According to Bravo's Daily Dish, she said, “I can’t say I’m back into the dating world. I just kind of stuck my pinky in the dating world.