Meet Tommy Hilfiger’s author-artist daughter, Ally Hilfiger: she starred on MTV’s Rich Girls, wrote the book Bite Me on battling Lyme disease – but what happened to her fashion business?
- Now 37, Ally was born in New York and grew up at parents Tommy and Susie Hilfiger’s US$40 million Greenwich estate with siblings Kathleen, Elizabeth and Richard
- She wrote about her battle with Lyme disease in the book Bite Me, and seems to enjoy a lavish life on dad’s superyacht Flag and Dassault Falcon 900 private jet
Ally Hilfiger is the personification of the adage, “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” In her 37 years on the planet, she has seen umpteen highs and lows. The LA-based daughter of fashion mogul and entrepreneur Tommy Hilfiger is a producer, actress, artist, fashion designer, writer … and Lyme disease survivor.
Between her reality show MTV’s Rich Girls, her artistic ventures and her lifelong struggle with Lyme disease, she wrote a book, Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy and Almost Killed Me.
A lavish childhood
Alexandria Caroline, better known as Ally Hilfiger, was born on February 26, 1985, in New York City to legendary fashion force Tommy Hilfiger and his now ex-wife Susie Hilfiger. The American heiress is the eldest of four children. According to Guest of a Guest, she split her time between Greenwich, Connecticut and the Big Apple. She attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private, independent Catholic all-girls school costing over US$50,000 a year in tuition fees, per Master of Chemistry.
In Manhattan, she attended the Professional Children’s School, per New York Magazine, a university preparatory school geared toward working and aspiring child actors and dancers.
