Kiana Tom

{{short description|American television host, author, actress, and businesswoman}}

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| name = Kiana Tom

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| birth_place = Hawaii, US{{Cite book |last=McMullin |first=Juliet |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrFmDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Kiana+Tom%22&pg=PA146 |title=The Healthy Ancestor: Embodied Inequality and the Revitalization of Native Hawai'ian Health |date=2016-06-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-41832-2 |pages=146 |language=en}}

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| known_for = creator of Kiana's Flex Appeal

| occupation = Personal trainer
group fitness instructor
entrepreneur
model
actress

| years active = 1995-2002

| spouse = {{marriage|Dennis Breshears|2002|2022|reason=divorced}}

| children = 2

| website = {{URL|http://www.kiana.com/}}

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Kiana Tom is an American former television host known for hosting Kiana's Flex Appeal on ESPN.{{Cite web |date=2013-01-16 |title=Kiana Tom |url=https://www.midweek.com/kiana-tom/ |access-date=2022-09-11 |website=MidWeek |language=en-US}}

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.{{Cite web |title=Hard bodies, hard numbers |url=http://www.salon.com/media/media960530.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102080429/http://www.salon.com/media/media960530.html |archive-date=2008-01-02 |access-date=2022-01-13 |website=Salon.com}}{{Cite web |title=Macmillan |url=http://us.macmillan.com/kianasbodysculpting |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105145414/http://us.macmillan.com/kianasbodysculpting |archive-date=2017-01-05 |access-date=2010-01-15}} Tom was also a cheerleader with the Los Angeles Raiderettes, affiliated with the Los Angeles Raiders of the National Football League (NFL).{{cite web |last=Ozanian |first=Mike |title=Why The Detroit Lions Cheerleaders Will Happily Work For Almost Nothing |website=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2016/06/14/why-the-detroit-lions-cheerleaders-will-happily-work-for-almost-nothing/ |date=June 14, 2016 |access-date=April 13, 2025}} 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.{{cite news |last=Van Gelder |first=Lawrence |date=21 August 1999 |title=FILM REVIEW; Soldiers Dying to Serve, And Die to Serve They Do |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9D06E6DD1238F932A1575BC0A96F958260 |work=The New York Times}} She also appeared in a cameo appearance with Eminem in the music video for "Without Me."{{cite news |last=Moss |first=Corey |date=August 23, 2002 |title=VMA LENS RECAP: THE STORY BEHIND EMINEM'S 'WITHOUT ME' |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1457168/vma-lens-recap-the-story-behind-eminems-without-me/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140906165149/http://www.mtv.com/news/1457168/vma-lens-recap-the-story-behind-eminems-without-me/ |archive-date=September 6, 2014 |access-date=September 5, 2021 |website=MTV.com}}

Tom has posed nude for the May 2002 edition of Playboy magazine.{{cite web |last=Harris |first=Elliot |date=March 26, 2002 |title=Exercising her job options |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1435616.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102215724/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1435616.html |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |accessdate=15 January 2010 |publisher=Chicago Sun-Times}} 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.{{Cite web |date=April 5, 2002 |title=Kiana Tom |url=http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/dailynews/extra/04_02/04_05b.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070117024915/http://telepixtvcgi.warnerbros.com/dailynews/extra/04_02/04_05b.html |archive-date=January 17, 2007 |access-date=June 23, 2024 |website=www.warnerbros.com}}

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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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