Miranda Kerr
Miranda May Kerr (/kɜːr/; born 20 April 1983) is an Australian model. She rose to prominence in 2007 as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also represented the Australian department store chain David Jones. She has launched her own brand of organic skincare products, KORA Organics, and has written a self-help book.
Miranda Kerr
Model
1997–present
4
1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Brown
Blue
- IMG Models (Worldwide)
- Traffic Models (Barcelona)[1]
Kerr began modelling in the fashion industry when she was 13, winning the 1997 Dolly magazine model search competition. Since 2008, she has consistently ranked on the Forbes list of highest earning models. She was previously married to English actor Orlando Bloom, with whom she had her first son. Since 2017, she has been married to Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, with whom she has three children.
Early life
Kerr was born in Sydney and raised in Gunnedah, New South Wales.[2] She is the daughter of Therese and John Kerr. Her mother was 17 years old when she gave birth.[3] She has a brother, Matthew, who is two years younger. Kerr is of English ancestry, with smaller amounts of Scottish and French.[4] During her childhood, Kerr "raced motorbikes and rode horses on her grandmother's farm". She describes her early life in the Australian countryside as "very grounding ... there wasn't any pretentiousness and no one really cared what you were wearing. You could just be you."[5] As a teenager, she was an exchange student to Virginia, U.S.[6]
Her family moved to Brisbane, Queensland, to allow Kerr and her brother to experience city life. Kerr was initially reluctant to leave her childhood hometown, but her first boyfriend, called Christopher Middlebrook, died in a car accident when they were teenagers and she said it was too painful to stay there.[7] She graduated from All Hallows' School in 2000. Kerr studied nutrition and health psychology before pursuing modelling.[8]
Career
1997–2006: Career beginnings
At age 13, Kerr entered and won the 1997 annual Dolly magazine/Impulse model competition. She was flown to Sydney a week before her 14th birthday to shoot for the magazine. Upon Kerr's win, local media expressed "concerned outrage" at her young age. The controversy raised concerns about the glorification of young girls within the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries.[9]
Some media outlets claimed her Dolly shoot (including images of a 14-year-old Kerr in bathing suits) constituted a form of paedophilia. Of the press, Kerr said: "In the media at the time they were trying to cling on to anything remotely to do with paedophilia. Dolly is a magazine for teenage girls, not for old men. And I was fully clothed! Doing a winter shoot! They just made something out of nothing."[10]
Personal life
Relationships
In 2003, Kerr dated finance broker Adrian Camilleri. Following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation, Camilleri was found guilty on five counts of fraudulent behaviour from February 2003 to February 2004. A 2007 newspaper report claims that Kerr suffered financially "after taking her boyfriend's financial advice" but chose not to take legal action.[64]
From 2003 to mid-2007, Kerr dated Jay Lyon, the lead singer of the band Tamarama. Kerr starred in Tamarama's video clip for "Everything To Me".[65]
Kerr began dating English actor Orlando Bloom in late 2007.[66] In 2009, a gang of thieves known as the Bling Ring broke into Bloom's home. The group stole luxury brand clothing and jewellery. In this case, the ringleader allegedly wanted Kerr's Victoria's Secret lingerie.[67] Kerr and Bloom announced their engagement in June 2010,[68] and married the following month.[69] Kerr gave birth to their son, Flynn Christopher Blanchard Copeland Bloom, on 6 January 2011.[70] In October 2013, Kerr and Bloom announced that they had separated several months earlier, and planned to end their marriage.[71][72] The divorce was official by the end of 2013.[73]
In early 2014, Kerr briefly had a romantic relationship with Malaysian businessman Jho Low who was later indicted in connection with the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal.[74] In June 2017, Kerr surrendered $8 million in jewelry given to her by Low in 2014 to the US government amid an inquiry into the scandal.[75][76]
Kerr also discussed bisexuality during an interview with GQ in 2014 stating "I appreciate both men and women. I love the female body and truly appreciate the female form. I want to explore. Never say never!"[77]
In 2015, Kerr began dating billionaire Snapchat co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel.[78] In July 2016, Kerr announced her engagement to Spiegel, and they married in May 2017.[79] Kerr wore a custom Dior wedding dress designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri that was inspired by Grace Kelly's wedding gown.[80] On 7 May 2018, she gave birth to her second child (her first with Spiegel), a son named Hart Spiegel.[81] She gave birth to her third son in October 2019.[82] On February 27, 2024, she welcomed her fourth son, Pierre Kerr Spiegel.[83]
Religious views
In response to claims that Kerr is a practising Buddhist, she told The Telegraph, "I'm not Buddhist. I'm Christian. I pray every day. I meditate every day and I do yoga. I'm not religious, I'm spiritual. And praying is something my grandmother taught me as well. To pray and be grateful, have gratitude, is a big thing for me."[84][85]
She later told Into The Gloss:[86]
She credits meditation, speaking with friends, and writing as ways of dealing with challenges such as the death of her then-boyfriend at age 15, and "makes it a priority to pray about forgiving herself and others."[87]