Miranda Kerr means business with her children’s upbringing
Despite being one of Australia’s most successful modelling exports and her husband being worth $3.2bn, Miranda Kerr insists on raising her children closely aligned to her own idyllic upbringing in Gunnedah, NSW.
Ten years after meeting at a Louis Vuitton dinner in New York, Miranda Kerr and husband Evan Spiegel are busier than ever balancing business with the beautiful chaos of raising a young family.
Kerr, who appears on the December cover of Vogue Australia, recently sat down with the title in her adopted hometown of Los Angeles, to share what their life looks like since welcoming their third son together, Pierre, last February.
Their brood also includes Hart, 6, Myles, 5, and Kerr’s son Flynn, almost 14, who they co-parent with his dad Orlando Bloom and his pop-star partner Katy Perry.
“It’s wild,” said a wide-eyed Kerr of trying to make it all work. “I feel like I’m one of those ducks where they look calm on the surface and their little legs are going underneath.”
The 41-year-old model even joked that some evenings after putting all their children to bed, there are no words for her and Spiegel, co-founder of Snapchat and now CEO of Snap Inc.
“We’re both so exhausted, we’ll just look at each other and then we’ll start laughing.”
Despite being one of Australia’s most successful modelling exports and her husband being worth $3.2bn according to Forbes, Kerr insists on raising her children closely aligned to her own idyllic upbringing in Gunnedah, NSW.
That means baking together with her boys, taking turns down a backyard slip-and-slide, and limited screen time, unless it’s playing with Siegel’s latest pet project: the Snap Spectacles, which he unveiled in September.
“I literally feel done,” Kerr says of finishing her family. “I know Evan would have 10 if it was up to him, but I just feel pulled and I’m not really someone who can just let someone else raise my kids.”
In a household of males, Kerr also reveals she’s recently been grappling with giving her all to her “baby girl”, referring to Kora Organics, the beauty business she founded in 2009. Kerr retains 95 per cent of the company whose products are currently sold in 40 countries.
“So often I just want to be, ‘Oh, I want to sell my company and just be a mum’, because it’s a lot to juggle. But then Evan reminds me how my company is my baby girl. I started the concept in 2006, so Kora really was my first baby … Because there are a lot of celebrity brands out there where they just put their names to it, but this is my actual baby. I invested pretty much all my money from modelling and I put all my eggs in the one basket.
“In the past,” Kerr continues, “I wanted to hand it down to my boys and be like the Estee Lauder of organics, and of course, that’s still a thought process. But having been post-partum, it does put a lot of pressure on you to question, how much do I actually want it? How much am I sacrificing here?”
Kerr has another cheerleader in co-parent Katy Perry, who has referred to her as a “sister from another mister”.
“She became so obsessed with the Turmeric Glow Moisturizer that she called me,” Kerr shares. “And then just the other day I saw she’s done a ‘what’s in my bag’ video for Vogue and of course she pulls it out. I was like, ‘Oh my god, thank you! I am going to have to send you refills for the rest of your life’.”
Kerr says her family will not be back for Christmas but annual visits to their property in the Hunter Valley are still a priority. While not here in a physical sense, she’s been spotted in advertisements, thanks to being named ambassador for antipodean jewellery brand Michael Hill. The recent campaign has special meaning for the model, as she shot a campaign for them 20 years ago after the Kerr family moved to Brisbane to further their daughter’s modelling career.
“It brought back those memories of those fun experiences going into the store with my girlfriends after school and saving for a special gift,” she remembers. “When they came to ask me if I wanted to be ambassador, it was a nice full-circle moment.”
The December issue of Vogue Australia is on sale next Monday, December 2.
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