Kim Porter is from Columbus, Georgia. She started out as a blushing model from the small town area. After her graduation from Columbus High School in 1988, she moved to Atlanta to pursue a bigger dream. She was in a relationship with singer Al B. Sure! and in 1991, they had a son Quincy Brown who was named after Al B. Sure's mentor, musician Quincy Jones. In 1994 she began a relationship with Sean Combs. He adopted and raised Quincy and the couple also has a son, Christian Casey Combs, and twin daughters D'Lila Star and Jessie James Combs.