Meet the long-lost KFC chicken heiress and Instagram star with her own lingerie label
- Entrepreneur Kaila Methven is marketing herself as a KFC heiress.
- Methven's family owned Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, a South African company that at one time supplied 90% of KFC's chicken.
- Methven now runs two high-end lingerie brands: Madame Methven and LDKM.
You could be forgiven for not knowing that KFC has an heiress, because it doesn't. But lingerie designer Kaila Methven is the next best thing.
Methven is the granddaughter of the founder of Rainbow Chicken Unlimited, a South African company that at one time supplied 90% of KFC's chicken. The Methvens were also once the third-richest family in South Africa, Maxim reported.
Methven's grandfather, Stanley, was known as a food industry pioneer. He was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1986.
"[Stanley] Methven had a vision - that chicken would become a staple protein source - combined with formidable energy," Financial Mail, a South African business publication, wrote in 1995.
The family sold the chicken business in 1991, the year Kaila Methven was born. Despite being an heiress, Methven says she had a difficult childhood. Her mother committed suicide when Methven was 14, after which she moved to France to live with her estranged father.
Now, she has her own lingerie business and has become an Instagram star. Keep scrolling to see her glamorous life:
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