Minka Kelly was born as Minka Dumont Dufay on the 24th of June, 1980 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. She was born as the only child of Rick Dufay, the guitarist for the music band Aerosmith and her mother Maureen Dumont used to work as a exotic dancer. After the divorce of her parents when she was still very young, her mother took her custody and raised her alone.
As a child, she didn’t have many friends and spent most of her time with her grandparents. His grandfather, who was a small time producer as well as an actor, decided she should do something in that field as well. With her mixed Euro ethnicity of Irish and French, she was sent to school in Chicago from where she picked up the tracks of becoming a model. After graduating Valley High School, she was hired as a Playboy model first in Los Angeles.
Beautiful, smart, elegant, talented, sexy are some words that can be used rightly to describe Minka Kelly, an American fashion model and actress. Minka is known to be a very successful model that has featured in multiple magazines, music videos and live shows. Then after she started acting, she won the admiration of many people and her co-workers, for her hard work and effort.
She’s best known for some of her works in movies like Friday Night Lights (2006), Body Politic (2009), Parenthood (2010) Just Go with It (2011), Charlie’s Angels (2011) and Away and Back (2015). She has also worked considerably in TV serials like Drake & Josh, American Dreams, What I Like About You, Entourage, Almost Human and many others. Although she hasn’t won any significant awards yet, she has been nominated in plenty of those. To find out more on her life and career, you can read her biography in sites like IMDB and Wikipedia.
Being a celebrity, it is hard for Minka to keep her private life to herself as she is followed or spotted by many people. Although, she doesn’t seem to be the type who conceals things and has got a good relationship with the press and media. Having not had any children or husband so far, she has got no intentions of getting married anytime soon. However, she has been in many relationships and has a list of boyfriends.
To start up, her first official boyfriend was Brian J White, a model and actor whom she dated form 2003 to 2004. After that she was seen with actor Donald Faison for a year till 2005, and was shortly involved with Chris Evans around 2006. The same year, they separated and she began dating musician john Mayer between 2007 and 2008. After dating athlete Derek Jeter for 4 years, she reunited with Chris Evans again in 2012 but things didn’t work out between them. Her last records show that she is currently with Jake Gyllenhaal, and this relationship began in 2014.
With a good-looking figure and a height of 5 feet and 5 inches, Minka has got a well-maintained figure with a body weight of 52 kg. She is slim, but has good curves and her measurements read 33-29-35 inches (Breast- Waist- Hip), and her feet are size 7. Being a model and actress, it is best for her to stay in shape, look appealing and sexy most of the times and so far she has done that.
Having already posed for sports magazines and Playboy, she has done many hot photo shoots in short clothes and bikinis. Despite any nude scenes in her career so far, you can find plenty of fake, edited pictures which are not hers originally. You can also find many of her photos in her official Instagram account. She has got an estimated net worth value of $5 million US dollars, as of 2015.