STYLING Julianna Alabado
Miranda Kerr gives us a tour of her bathroom-turned-wellness sanctuary in Los Angeles, shares what life is like with four boys and a Silicon Valley husband, and reveals the succession plan for her beauty business, KORA Organics (hint: her six-year-old is keen)
Kerr is also steering KORA, her certified-organic skincare brand that turns 20 this year and is now sold in over 30 countries, shipping to more than 180. In the brutally competitive $222 billion global skincare market, that’s no mean feat. “It’s definitely not easy,” she says with a sigh. “Often, I’ll say to myself, ‘Why am I doing this again?’ But I truly believe in my heart that people deserve this type of skincare.” KORA’s organic certification comes via Ecocert/COSMOS, considered to be among the most rigorous bodies globally. Kerr maintains a 95 per cent stake in the business but admits, “I’m a small fish in a big sea.”
Launching into the US via Sephora in 2017 was, she says, a case of putting all her eggs in one basket. The push to scale came, characteristically, from Spiegel. “Evan was like, ‘Why wouldn’t you? You have an amazing product. What are you afraid of?’”
Talent: Miranda Kerr
Editor: Georgie McCourt
Creative Director: Rebecca Rhodes
Photographer: Greg Swales
Interview: Eugenie Kelly
Stylist: Julianna Alabado
Hair: Ericka Verrett
Makeup: Nicole Konovaloff
Manicure: Kim Truong
Fashion Assistant: Lace Richards
Production: Nicola Hanratty & AGPNYC
Academic expectations are another non-negotiable. “I’ve told them, ‘If you don’t focus on school, we’ll take you out and your position will go to another child. You’ll go to public school.’” She pauses. “They’re like, ‘Err, OK…’”
Life in the Kerr/Spiegel household is many things, but it’s not been without its upheavals. The January 2025 Palisades fire left a particular scar. Many of the couple’s friends and family – including Evan’s father – lost their homes. “[It was the house] where Evan started Snapchat actually,” Kerr reveals. “[After the fire] he co-founded an organisation called Department of Angels to assist victims in rebuilding their lives, but this has also affected so many mentally – even those whose homes survived.”
Meditation, which she has practised since age 17, has been an anchor through the harder days. “Evan meditates,” she says. “Flynn now joins me, but rather than chanting to an altar like Orlando [a practising Buddhist] does, he goes inwards. It’s not easy. And at time’s its confronting.” Faith too is a constant. “It’s one thing we focus on as a family. We always pray before meals, thanking God for our food and the opportunity to be together.”
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It was the first time an Australian had been signed to the brand, which was a significant coup for a former Dolly cover girl whom the local fashion industry had initially dismissed as “too commercial”. After finishing Year 12, Kerr modelled full-time with modest success, before heading to New York in 2004. There she signed with Next Model Management and the jobs quickly built momentum. Editorials in US ELLE and Vogue followed, as well as a lucrative Maybelline contract; and the industry back home – with its tendency to recalibrate opinion – began taking her seriously.
Victoria’s Secret made her famous, but it was what came after that consolidated her position. In 2010, Nicolas Ghesquière booked her exclusively for Balenciaga’s spring runway; the following season she fronted campaigns for Prada and Jil Sander; and Steven Meisel shot her for the cover of Vogue Italia. She was regularly ranking in the top 10 of Forbes’ highest-earning models list – something her accountant mother had long prepared her for. “Save money while you can, then invest it in your own business later [Mum would say]. My parents are big positive thinkers. My mum would say, ‘You can do anything. The possibilities are unlimited.’”
Miranda Kerr wears Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello dress, $52,500.
A.W.A.K.E. Mode dress, $2076; Michael Hill rings (index finger), $4999, (middle) $3499, and $3499, and bracelets (from top), $8999, $8999 and $5599; Miranda’s wedding ring worn throughout.
“My body has really changed from four pregnancies, but I worry less about ageing now than I ever have”
Left: Stella McCartney dress, $2480; Michael Hill earrings, $1999, rings (her right hand), $2499, and (left hand, from left), $2499 and $4699, and bracelet, $629. Right: Tove dress, POA; Michael Hill earrings, $1999, and necklace, $2799.
It’s painting a conservative portrait of domesticity, for someone who spent her twenties and thirties as one of the most idolised women in popular culture. In 2007, Kerr officially signed on as a Victoria’s Secret Angel when she was enlisted to replace Gisele Bündchen in the televised runway shows that aired across four continents. There were many memorable outfit moments – the skimpy white lace lingerie and fur-trimmed caped bolero get-up being just one of them – but that contract was akin to an Olympic medal for a model back then. “It opened up an incredible platform and really accelerated everything,” she explains. “I’d be thrown into these TV interviews with no prep provided. It was like – whoo! – let’s see how she goes. I had to wing it – pardon the pun. I think it was a confidence that came from the fact I didn’t take myself [too] seriously.”
Tory Burch dress and shoes, both POA; Michael Hill earrings, $2299 each, and necklace, $16,999.
Louis Vuitton dress, $12,200, and briefs, POA; Michael Hill earrings, $2299 each, necklaces (from top), $3699 and $16,999, ring (pinky), $2499, and bracelets (from top), $8999 and $999.
Hermès jacket, $47,250, top, $4725, and shorts, $4515; Michael Hill earrings, $2299 each, necklace, $16,999, and ring, $2499.
Left: Fendi top and pants, both POA; Michael Hill bracelets (from top), $5599, and $8999 each, and ring, $3499.
Right: Dior dress, $37,000; Michael Hill rings (index finger), $3499 each, (middle) $3699, and (pinky) $2499, necklace, $16,999, bracelets (her left arm), $2299, (right arm, from top), $1799, $8299, and (worn as an anklet) $999.
As for the daily architecture of her life, it remains formidable. Up at 5am, she avoids her phone, meditates, then opens the blinds (“that first 20 minutes before sunrise are your most medicinal rays”), says a prayer of gratitude and has a glass of lemon water followed by coffee made with coconut milk and maple syrup. Her celery juice habit was quietly shelved after speaking with gastroenterologist Dr Sabine Hazan. (“You must read her book, Let’s Talk Sh!t,” Kerr deadpans.) Noni juice follows, then the Power Plate machine, dry body brushing and a thorough application of body oil. All before the rest of us have worked out where we left our keys.
“I’ve very much sensorial these days,” she muses. “And I really try to look after my emotional health. My body has really changed from four pregnancies, but I worry less about ageing now than I ever have.” The source of that equanimity, she suggests, has little to with all those devices I spotted earlier on her side table. “I’m feeling good about who I am now,” Kerr admits. “When you’re connected to that inner part of yourself – and your family – and know they understand and appreciate and value who you are, I think that’s all that matters.”
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Most celebrity interviews start on a sofa. Ours begins in a tiny closet alcove off Miranda Kerr’s bathroom. And if that isn’t enough of an invasion of privacy, the Australian supermodel – who went blonde (just a wig) for our shoot – has now also been handed a white box by her assistant and told she needs to take a Covid test. Without missing a beat, Kerr takes the swab, twisting it with the focus of a surgeon and the efficiency of someone who has done this a hundred times before. Her eyes water. She winces. Then she’s back.
To be transparent, we’re on a Zoom call. But it’s hard not to be distracted by what we can spot in the background – particularly on one side table. Turns out, Kerr’s quite the biohacker. “They’re all my latest devices I’m obsessed with,” she says, clocking my distraction. “That’s my Truvaga, which is meant to stimulate my vagus nerve. This one’s a neuro visor to reset my circadian rhythm. Here’s my Oura ring. And I’m also obsessed with this oxygen machine. Then there’s my Shiftwave Chair. You lay back, listen to a meditation through headphones while pulsed pressure waves are sent through your body.”
Welcome to Miranda Kerr’s inner sanctum. Living in Los Angeles – a city where wellness and optimisation are simultaneously hobby, sport and competitive religion – it’s clear Kerr approaches self-care the way she once approached a Victoria’s Secret runway: with discipline and a rather professional rigour. She has to. These days she is mother to four boisterous boys: Flynn, 15, co-parented with ex-husband Orlando Bloom; Hart, seven; Myles, six; and Pierre, two, the children from her marriage to billionaire Snapchat co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc, Evan Spiegel.
Today Kerr is wearing a bottle-green cardigan over a black camisole and The Row’s cult classic elastic-wasted Gala pant. (“They’re perfect for running around town, styled with sneakers,” she quips.) It’s a casually elegant look anchored by a tennis necklace of heart-shaped lab-grown diamonds – the hero in her latest 12-piece collaborative collection for Australian jeweller Michael Hill. It was a project that, she says, felt entirely effortless. “The idea behind it is that it’s from my heart to yours. For this one I was inspired by Elizabeth Taylor in [the 1958 film] Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. I love design collaborations like these because I get to express myself creatively in a way that just flows. And then the team does the rest of the hard work,” she adds with a laugh.
Jokes aside, it would be naïve to overlook the fundamental equation here. It’s her face, her name and her enduring appeal that sells a $16,999 necklace. An appeal that – at 42 and after four children – shows no sign of waning. “In my youth I was appreciated for the ‘exterior’ rather than my spirit,” she says. “But my empowerment now comes from knowing what I bring to the table.”
“I think my early confidence came from the fact I didn’t take myself too seriously”
The question of selling the business, it turns out, is rather more complicated. “Someone asked me that the other day,” she confesses. “I was like, maybe … But my sons overheard and lost it. Myles said, ‘No way! I’m going to be CEO of KORA one day!’”
Kerr’s humble country upbringing in rural New South Wales (“My parents bought the cheapest house in Gunnedah,” she says) bears little resemblance to the rarefied Los Angeles milieu her sons now inhabit. The contrast isn’t lost on her. “My husband and I talk about this all the time. It’s something we’re deeply conscious of.” Each morning while driving the boys to school, she asks them to name three things they are grateful for – a small deliberate ritual intended to counterbalance the bubble. “We’ve explained this isn’t a normal life,” she says. “We’re blessed.”
Dior dress, $37,000; Michael Hill earrings, $2299 each, necklace, $16,999, and bracelets, $2299, POA, and $999 (worn as anklet).