Now in her fourth season of Housewives, Alex McCord continues to balance family life with her merchandising and design career, other business interests and thriving charity and social calendar. From her home office, Alex spearheads various design projects, including a major renovation of the Fifth Avenue showroom of Manhattan's oldest camera store, Willoughbys. Her husband and side-kick Simon van Kempen has started a social media company and has also left the hotel property he managed for nine years in favor of returning to the hotel consulting career he loved when he and Alex met. Simon now also works from home, which adds a new layer to their life together. Their book about raising their young children, 'Little Kids, Big City,' was released in 2010 and continues to sell, as their older son François turns seven and transitions to a new school, while son Johan celebrates his fifth birthday. Alex continues to speak her mind and feels freer for it, though not all the ladies appreciate it! As a team, she and Simon continue to tinker with their home, and (as always) express their love of each other, their boys, and fashion. These days Alex sometimes finds herself on runways or in front of the camera, thanks to signing with New York Model Management. Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Kansas, Texas and the US Virgin Islands, Alex attended Northwestern University, and has lived in New York City for 15 years and counting. She and Simon share their townhouse with their sons, affectionately referred to as "the chums" and their two lovable but constantly shedding cats, and continue to be proud to live in the largest borough of New York City, Brooklyn.
Appearances
The Real Housewives of New York City
Main cast, played by Alex McCord
- Episode 1x01: Meet the Wives (Mar 4, 2008)
- Episode 1x02: The Hamptons (Mar 11, 2008)
- Episode 1x03: Fashion Week (Mar 18, 2008)
- Episode 1x04: Social Wife (Mar 25, 2008)
- Episode 1x05: Careful, She Bites (Apr 1, 2008)
- Episode 1x06: Girl's Night Out (Apr 8, 2008)
- Episode 1x07: Second Chances (Apr 15, 2008)
- Episode 1x08: Reunion: Watch What Happens (Apr 22, 2008)
- Episode 1x09: The Lost Footage (May 27, 2008)
- Episode 2x01: There's a New Girl in Town (Feb 17, 2009)
- Episode 2x02: Hamptons Retreat… But No Surrender (Feb 24, 2009)
- Episode 2x03: On Their High Horses (Mar 3, 2009)
- Episode 2x04: If You Have Nothing Nice to Say... (Mar 10, 2009)
- Episode 2x05: New York State of Mind (Mar 17, 2009)
- Episode 2x06: Runway Run-In (Mar 24, 2009)
- Episode 2x07: Kelly vs. Bethenny (Mar 31, 2009)
- Episode 2x08: Game, Set, Feud (Apr 7, 2009)
- Episode 2x09: Wife in the Fast Lane (Apr 14, 2009)
- Episode 2x10: Unfashionably Late (Apr 21, 2009)
- Episode 2x11: Van Kempens House Party (Apr 28, 2009)
- Episode 2x12: Charity Wives (May 5, 2009)
- Episode 2x13: Reunion Part 1 (May 12, 2009)
- Episode 2x14: Reunion Part 2 (May 14, 2009)
- Episode 2x15: The Lost Footage (May 28, 2009)
- Episode 3x01: New Alliances (Mar 4, 2010)
- Episode 3x02: Dueling Labor Day Parties (Mar 11, 2010)
- Episode 3x03: Fall in Manhattan (Mar 18, 2010)
- Episode 3x04: Fashion and Fighting (Mar 25, 2010)
- Episode 3x05: Hot Off the Press (Apr 1, 2010)
- Episode 3x06: The Ambush (Apr 8, 2010)
- Episode 3x07: New Girl, Old Money (Apr 15, 2010)
- Episode 3x08: Let's See That Ring (Apr 22, 2010)
- Episode 3x09: Stay on Message (Apr 29, 2010)
- Episode 3x10: Leap Before You Look (May 6, 2010)
- Episode 3x11: Housewives Overboard (May 13, 2010)
- Episode 3x12: Sun, Sand and Psychosis (May 20, 2010)
- Episode 3x13: Shunburn (May 27, 2010)
- Episode 3x14: Rebuked, Reunited, Renewed (Jun 3, 2010)
- Episode 3x15: Reunion Part 1 (Jun 10, 2010)
- Episode 3x16: Reunion Part 2 (Jun 14, 2010)
- Episode 3x17: Reunion Part 3 (Jun 17, 2010)
- Episode 3x18: The Lost Footage (Jun 24, 2010)
- Episode 4x01: Grin and Bear It (Apr 7, 2011)
- Episode 4x02: March Madness (Apr 14, 2011)
- Episode 4x03: Hairy Mess (Apr 21, 2011)
- Episode 4x04: Ramona'd (Apr 28, 2011)
- Episode 4x05: Following Pecking Orders (May 5, 2011)
- Episode 4x06: The Mask Has Two Faces (May 12, 2011)
- Episode 4x07: Travel Reservations (May 19, 2011)
- Episode 4x08: Misfortune Teller (May 26, 2011)
- Episode 4x09: A Riad Divided (Jun 2, 2011)
- Episode 4x10: Last Call, Morocco! (Jun 9, 2011)
- Episode 4x11: Debt Becomes Her (Jun 16, 2011)
- Episode 4x12: 16 and Skip the Sweet (Jun 23, 2011)
- Episode 4x13: Your Tweeting Heart (Jun 30, 2011)
- Episode 4x14: Burlesque is More (Jul 7, 2011)
- Episode 4x15: Video Killed the Countess (Jul 14, 2011)
- Episode 4x16: L.O.V.E. Duel (Jul 21, 2011)
- Episode 4x17: Reunion Part 1 (Jul 25, 2011)
- Episode 4x18: Reunion Part 2 (Aug 1, 2011)