Kathryn Eisman is an Australian fashion, lifestyle and entertainment television journalist, author, model and designer. She was part of the two-time Emmy nominated E! News Entertainment team, is the entertainment correspondent for Sunrise on the Seven Network, and the author of two books. She is the founder of High Heel Jungle Socks. Kathryn is daughter of Peter and Sylvia Eisman, a Sydney based pediatrician and an educator, respectively. She is niece of John Eisman honored the Order of Australia. and granddaughter of Anna Reich, the last known holocaust survivor from Sydney to have been in Schindler’s List. She later went to Australia where she became a fashion identity, philanthropist and businesswoman.
Career
Eisman holds a Bachelor in Communications from the University of Technology Sydney and has worked in different TV shows and media outlets in Australia and the US. She was the lifestyle reporter for WNBC’s TODAY In New York and also reported for Live at 5 news cast and was the host of WNBC's Behind the scenes: Made in NY. Eisman was the Head of Fashion and Lifestyle content in E! News. and hosted television shows, including ‘The Timid Girls Guide To Life’ on The Style Network and “BTS” on NBC and Yahoo’s Secrets To Your Success. She is currently the Los Angeles based entertainment reporter for Network Seven's top rating national morning show, Sunrise. She has previously been the LA Correspondent for channel ten’s breakfast She is currently LA entertainment reporter for The Morning Show. As a reporter and host, she has interviewed actors and pop culture personalities like Oprah, Borat, Beyoncé, Oscar de la Renta, Matt Damon or Cameron Diaz. Recently, she was a Senior Producer for the ABC/Disney’s nationally syndicated talk show FABLife. Eisman is a regular contributor to NBC’s TODAY Show, Good Morning America, Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor, Channel 7, Channel 10, ABC News Now, MSNBC, KTLA, E! News and The Style Network, and has had different articles published in Marie Claire, Vogue, The New York Times, and has written monthly columns for Men’s Health and CLEO magazine as well as online blogs in She Knows and Yahoo. Aside from her television career, Eisman is a model who appeared in campaigns for brands as Berlei, Seafolly, Tigerlily or David Jones. She has also modeled for fashion spreads, including Cosmopolitan, Vogue Living, FHM and Sunday Life. Eisman is also the Founder and Creative Director of High Heel Jungle, a line of high fashion socks.
Books
Eisman is the author of How to Tell a Woman by her Handbag and How to Tell a Man by his Shoes, published in 10 countries and 15 languages. She was the winner of Cosmopolitan’s ‘Fun, Fearless Female of the Year’ award in 2009.
Charitable work
Eisman is an Ambassador for the Prince of Wales Hospital Foundation ‘Black Tie for Breast Cancer’ Committee and for the Life Changing Experiences organization’ ‘Sister2Sister’ program.
Personal life
In 2011, Eisman married the speaker and entrepreneur Siimon Reynolds. Eisman gave birth to daughters, Capri, in October 2013 and Monet, in March 2018. The family currently resides in Los Angeles.