MTV Host Zuri Hall Visits Shapemy Jeans
By Carla Yvette
After serving as grand marshal for this year’s Holiday
Parade held November 15, Toledo native and Emmy award
winning MTV host, Zuri Hall, took the time to be fitted for
a pair of handmade custom jeans by the mother and daughter
team of Shapemy Jeans, Alecia and Arlinda Lawson. “I’m
obsessed with wearing jeans so when my uncle Chauncey
Whitehead who is friends with the owners suggested I check
them out I didn’t hesitate.” Said Hall
Hall, a 2006 graduate of Maumee Valley Country Day School,
started her career at a local television station in
Indianapolis upon graduation from The Ohio State University.
In addition to hosting for MTV, Hall has appeared on
E!’s “Fashion Police” and
Vh1′s “Big Morning Buzz LIVE and hosted the show
Million Dollar Maze Runner.
She currently resides in New York City. |

MTV Host Zuri Hall during her personal fitting by Alesia and
Arlinda of Shapemy Jeans |