At one point Hasbro was calling her Aja, but eventually settled on calling her Kimber. Kimber Benton is Jerrica’s younger sister. Again Kimber’s last name comes from Dr. Stephen A. Benton of Polaroid Corporation was a pioneer in developing holograms. Being the youngest of the 3 Holograms, she is also the must immature, impulsive and easiest to get her feelings hurt. Even though she wrote the songs for Jem, she often felt like her voice wasn’t heard she left the Holograms on more than one occasion, even long enough to record an album with Stormer from the Misfits. If she seemed fickle in her music career, her love life was a completely exaggerated story. She was obsessed over Nick, dated Jeff, then Sean, then Jeff while making the same date with Max, seems like Switch was/is a boyfriend, back to Sean, dumped him to marry Jeff, to dumping Jeff at the alter to go back to Sean.

She seemed to be the only Hologram with a strong musical background, learning guitar at a young age. Even though Kimber seemed to be left out of Emmett’s will or at least not give any controlling interesting in Starlight Music, Emmett seemed to encourage her music career.

Her instrument for the doll and the carton was a keyboard. The doll keytar was a leftover from when Jem’s name was “M” and includes that “M” logo at the end of the handle. In the series she had standard keyboard. For 1987 she was released as one of the 2nd issue “New Look” Holograms, with bright bold colors and alternative fabrics for her stage fashions, earrings and a cassette with new music. Her new 1987 look never appeared in the series. Kimber’s 2nd issue cassette tape had the only song that had not appeared in the series prior to the doll release, this is because “Love’s Not Easy” was original recorded for the episode “Island of Deception” but cut from the episode.  “Love’s Not Easy” was eventually used in the later episode “Renaissance Woman.”

Out of the original Holograms she was the only one that had a 3rd release in the works. Hasbro wanted to sell a wedding Jem doll, but did not want to have Jem herself get married. Hasbro felt a character/doll being married would limit the possibilities for future releases So Hasbro choose to add the marriage theme to a secondary character. The freelance illustrator, Judith Nelson, had a presentation illustration of the Wedding Kimber on her online portfolio. The dress in the illustration is complete different than the Sunbow version of Wedding Kimber.

Similar to the 1986 Fashions Assortments art

Kimber was not offered in the 1988 Holograms doll assortment.

A Wedding Kimber & Male was in the works for 1988. Hasbro wanted a wedding doll, but felt that a marriage would limit Jem’s possibilities. The male doll is unknown, so Hasbro may have created a new male doll or linked the male doll to Jeff or Sean later in development.

played by:
Stefanie Scott