Kristen Kish Wife, Age, Net Worth, Tattoos, Height, Parents, Brother, Long Hair, Spouse, Wedding

Kristen Kish Biography – Kristen Kish Wiki

Kristen Kish is a Korean-American chef renowned for winning Season 10 of Bravo’s Top Chef. She is the chef/partner of Arlo Grey in Austin, Texas and the host of Bravo’s Emmy Award-winning “Top Chef.” She’s also the host and producer of “Restaurants at the End of the World” on National Geographic/Disney+.

Born in South Korea and adopted into a family in Kentwood, Mich., Kristen showed an affinity for cooking at a young age. After culinary school, she honed her skills at several high-profile restaurants in Boston.

Kristen’s TV career began when she competed on and won season 10 of “Top Chef.” In a full circle moment, she was named host of the beloved series for the 21st season beginning in March 2024. Her credits also include co-star of “Fast Foodies” on truTV/Food Network and co-host of “Iron Chef” on Netflix.

In 2017, Kristen released her first cookbook, “Kristen Kish Cooking: Recipes and Techniques,” and a year later opened her first restaurant, Arlo Grey at the Line Hotel. The restaurant reflects Kristen’s playful yet refined cuisine, pulling inspiration from her classical training as well as nostalgic dishes that highlights her upbringing and love of travel.

In 2023, Kristen was named to TIME 100’s Next, AdWeek’s Creative 100 and Marie Claire’s Power lists.

Kristen Kish Age

Top Chef host Kristen Kish was born on December 1, 1983, in Seoul, South Korea.

Kristen Kish Parents

Kristen Kish is the daughter of Michael and Judy Kish. In 1984, the couple adopted the four-month-old Kristen, who had been abandoned shortly after birth at a clinic outside Seoul. Judy was a high school teacher, and her husband, Michael, was an engineer at a company that made corrugated cardboard boxes.

Kristen Kish Siblings

Kristen Kish has an older brother, Jonathan, an automotive engineer. In February 2021, Kristen shared her “appreciation for the best older brother who has always looked after me from the moment I came home.” She wrote: “This is my older brother Jon. I was talking with my mom this morning and she somehow brought up what little names she used to call us. I was the endearing “doll face” and my brother was “pumpkin head”.

“He is SUPER smart, analytical, practical, and could live in the woods for months with just a backpack. He kept me safe and smiling with nothing except for what was on our backs for 4 days hiking trails in the smoky mountains.

“So although I may have gotten the better nickname, pumpkin head got the brainy brains, patience, and life skills to smartly survive anything. That’s all, love you Bro.”

Kristen Kish Wife

Kristen Kish is married to her wife Bianca Dusic. She married her fiancée, Bianca, on April 18, 2021. The chef shared photos and details from her wedding day in a touching Instagram on Monday (April 19), a day after they married.

“4.18.2021 – Threw on some nice clothes (my favorite blazer), headed to our backyard with our own written vows in hand, had our family with us (virtually), got all sappy, and WE DID THE DAMN THING [heart emoji] #happilymarried #mywife,” Kristen wrote about the nuptials.

One week before marrying, Kristen posted the sweetest tribute to her now wife: “You will always be my reason to believe in that soul hugging kind of love, the work it takes to grow and nurture that, to meet someone all the way, and to allow space for each to be their own beautiful [and] ‘work in progress’ selves. I don’t believe in luck often but how lucky am I that you chose me. I love you for all of our chapters and the forever, ‘to be continued’ endings.”

Kristen first confirmed her engagement back in September 2019. She wrote at the time, “She said YES to a lifetime of Sunday morning coffee dates and bed head. Engaged. She is magical.”

The two met when Ms. Dusic was the corporate executive assigned to help Ms. Kish open her Austin restaurant in the LINE Hotel in 2018. After six months of intense work side by side, they shared a high-five that lasted a little longer than they expected, The New York Times reported.

Kristen Kish Wedding

Top Chef season 10 winner Kristen Kish married Bianca Dusic in a backyard wedding on April 18, 2021. Kristen and Bianca exchanged vows in front of a simple white backdrop, as Justice of the Peace Shelley Armatino led the intimate ceremony. The Top Chef season 10 winner matched Bianca in a sharp black blazer for their special day.

Kristen Kish Net Worth

Chef Kristen Kish’s net worth is estimated to be $2 million.

Kristen Kish Height

Top Chef Season 10 winner Kristen Kish stands at a height of 5 feet and 5 inches (1.65 m).

Kristen Kish Long Hair

In January 2021, Kristen Kish shared her year-long hair journey. She wrote on Facebook: “A pandemic hit nearly a year ago. I started the self journey of cutting my own hair, found some great clippers. I managed to do the sides. Deceptively so, I had a ton of hair so I could mess up and no one would be the wiser. It went well. I got adventurous (& bored of having the same haircut for YEARS) so I shaved my head, in between filming two tv shows, great timing? It was something I had always wanted to do and successfully rocked it out (in my opinion).

“Maintaining a perfectly & evenly buzzed head is harder than I thought. It’s winter, I wear hats like I always tend to do. I just let my very Asian, straight (unlike myself), coarse, thick hair do whatever it wanted. That was not cute (cue porcupine – fellow short haired Asians know what I’m talking about). I am shaving the sides again as I figure out what to do…unsuccessfully apparently.”

Kristen Kish Tattoos

Chef Kristen Kish has a huge collection of tattoos. Each tattooed image in her collection holds significance that only she knows. Her first tattoo was her Korean name to her wrist. This first piece would lay the groundwork for the rest of her collection.

“All [my tattoos] are black ink, and they all came from a place of purpose,” Kish told Inked Magazine. “I like to have tattoos that are slightly obscure, that by the naked eye people might not be able to tell what it is or why I decided to get it. But they have a very personal intent and purpose.”

Her collection includes a woman holding a chef’s knife, a butter knife, a fish skeleton, herbs, a whisk and many more tools of her trade. One of her most memorable pieces is a line drawing of Austin’s Lady Bird Lake, upon which Arlo Grey sits, morphing into the Charles River Esplanade in Boston, a reference to her time at Menton working with chef Barbara Lynch.

In 2023, Kristen Kish got a gummy bear tattoo to celebrate being the new host of ‘Top Chef’. The chef told Page Six that after she was named as the new host of the long running culinary competition show “Top Chef,” she celebrated by getting a tattoo of a gummy bear.

Kristen Kish Ethnicity

Kristen Kish is of Asian ethnicity. She is a role model for Asian-American women.

Kristen Kish Instagram

Kristen Kish’s Instagram handle is kristenlkish.