Inside Bianca Censori’s career and private life before marriage to Kanye West
Who is the mysteriously silent bombshell?
It’s difficult to get any real sense of who Kanye West’s wife Bianca Censori is as a person.
Thrust into the public eye when she married the notorious rapper in 2022, Bianca rarely speaks in public, making her something of an enigma – despite how often we’ve all seen her naked body.
The 30-year-old and her husband have been grabbing headlines with special frequency recently following their appearance at the Grammys on February 2.
While the rapper has been showing off Bianca nearly naked in public for quite a while, they took things to another level at the awards show.
Bianca wore a fully sheer dress over her nude body for the red carpet, in an appearance that was dissected by outraged fans and commentators, before Kanye returned to X and embarked on a horrific antisemitic tirade – as well as attempting to sell T-shirts emblazoned with a swastika.
Rumours soon followed that the pair were headed towards divorce, but they were quickly dispelled by Kanye once again posting a nude photo of Bianca on his Instagram.
Kanye and Bianca made headlines around the world when she wore a totally see through dress to the Grammys (Picture: Lisa/AFF-USA/Shutterstock)The image seems to be additional promotion for the couple’s upcoming film, an avant-garde art movie that is said to have been made for $25million (£19.8m), fully funded by the couple, and is directed by artist Vanessa Beecroft.
Summarily, its been a truly wild few weeks for the couple.
Ahead of her film debut and her inevitable next risque fashion moment, lets take a look at who Bianca was before she found this peculiar flavour of fame that has the whole world talking.
Where is Bianca Censori from?Born on January 5, 1995, in Melbourne, Australia, Bianca grew up in Melbourne, where she attended Carey Baptist Grammar School.
Bianca (center) attended Carey Baptist Grammar School in Melbourne (Picture: 2011 Carey Chronicle)Bianca is one of three daughters born to Alexandra and Elia ‘Leo’ Censori.
Her paternal grandparents immigrated from Giulianova, Italy, to Australia in 1960, bringing with them a blend of Italian culture that influenced her upbringing.
In 2023, a school friend of Bianca’s told DailyMail Australia that Bianca was in the ‘popular’ group, but that she ‘always had time for people outside her social circle’.
‘I would describe Bianca as a social butterfly – the kind of girl who was friends with everyone. Like, she was never an intimidating mean girl. I think it would surprise people how smart she is,’ she explained.
Bianca seemed to go for a very different look prior to marrying Kanye (Picture: angelinacensori/Instagram)It’s previously been reported by anonymous sources that Bianca’s family members were very concerned about Kanye’s seemingly large influence over her, with reports circulating in 2024 that her parents were ‘distressed’ after seeing her naked in a raincoat with Kanye.
However, her sister Angelina has slammed the claims that their mum and dad are furious at her risque clothing.
‘We all support him. We support his new album. We support his new clothes he’s dropping,’ she told the Herald Sun.
School friends remember Bianca as popular, but also kind and clever (Picture: Daily Mail Australia)Angelina added: ‘It’s all just bulls**t. There was something about my dad even recently. My dad never talks. Nothing’s true.’
She was referring to reports from MailOnline that Leo, their father, wanted to ‘sit down’ with the rapper and question the ‘parading’ of Bianca.
‘Bianca’s father Leo wants to have a proper sit down with Kanye and ask him what the hell he is thinking when he parades Bianca around like a trashy naked trophy pony,’ an insider had told the publication.
Despite these rumours, The Herald Sun reported Kanye met Bianca’s family in July 2023 and that everything was peaceful within the family.
What was Bianca Censori’s career?The Australian bombshell pursued higher education at the University of Melbourne, earning both a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture between 2013 and 2020.
Bianca is one of three sisters – (left to right) Bianca, Alyssia, and Angelina Censori – pictured here with their mother Alexandra Censori (far left)(Picture: Instagram)During her university years, she was notably ambitious, founding Nylons Jewelry, a successful brand she established just after completing high school.
In an interview with i-D in 2016, she explained the brand came about from’laying around with mesh, then putting crystals inside the meshing, just making really simple thin chokers.’
She went on: ‘I started selling those and from there it slowly kept growing. Once I started architecture I still wanted some sort of creative outlet so I kept making jewelry as something to do on the side and it grew into a business!’
Before joining Yeezy, Kanye West’s fashion brand, Bianca gained experience in the architectural field by working as a student architect at DP Toscano Architects in Collingwood, Victoria.
The architect described choosing her career because it’s ‘the grandest artistic gesture that we can place onto the earth’ in a 2021 interview (Picture: Daily Mail Australia)In a 2021 interview, as reported by Elle, Bianca was asked how she got into architecture: ‘I was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. As a child I was consistently drawn to creative endeavors, mostly artistic. I always wanted to be a sculptor and to me, architecture is the union of art and pragmatics. It is the grandest artistic gesture that we can place onto the earth. I was drawn to it, purely, as a shift in artistic scale.’
She continued: ‘As a child, I spent a lot of time with my aunt who would consistently expose me to an array of art, film, and architecture. She really drove my love for design and instilled in me an eye for aesthetics that I was able to nurture into adulthood.’
When did Kanye West and Bianca Censori get together?While the couple’s exact relationship timeline isn’t totally clear, we know Bianca started working for Yeezy in 2020 as the head of architectural design.
The Golddigger rapper and his employee were first seen at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills sharing a meal on January 9, 2023, per TMZ.
It was later revealed that the pair secretly tied the knot in December 2022, just one month after his marriage to Kim Kardashian officially ended.
