Miranda Kerr saved Evan Spiegel from turning into Peter Pan

How the supermodel cleaned up her billionaire husband.

How the supermodel cleaned up her billionaire husband.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Jane Austen knew what's up. So too did Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel, who, after meeting Miranda Kerr elevated in every sense.

He stopped eating junk food, became a morning person and discovered the mental and physical benefits of yoga and meditation.

When they met he was a 24-year-old billionaire nerd who "loves computers" and had just moved out of his dad's place, she was already a successful model, mum and one of the first innovators in the wellness and clean beauty space.

The power couple grace the cover of the August issue of Vogue Australia, on sale today, and open up about their relationship and how their lives have evolved and grown together since that first meet-cute at a fancy dinner party back in 2014.

Their well-documented first date - which happened months after that party where they swapped numbers as she was moving house and he told her to text him if she needed help with "tech stuff" - was a Kundalini yoga class. 

“Miranda got me hooked on Kriya meditation,” Spiegel said of the ancient breath control technique.

“It’s incredible and very energising. On a good day I can get 45 minutes in the morning to meditate, which is life- changing,” he says of his three-year practice that has recently been boosted by regular sauna sessions at home.

However old habits die hard and while Spiegel may run a multibillion-dollar company, but at home he has an open-door office policy, especially for their children.  

“I keep snacks in my office, so it helps lure them,” he said, while Kerr winced at the idea of her kids intercepting his "freeze-dried astronaut ice-cream" as he experiments with AR goggles and other ground-breaking tech.

As Vogue reported:

“I definitely minimised the junk food,” Kerr deadpans of her influence.

“When we first met, I felt like I was talking a foreign language when I would talk about health and wellness with what you eat, because he was raised in America ...”

“Where are you going with this?” he smirks. 

“He was raised with a very different eating regimen than I was and that’s why we balance each other out,” she says with a smile. 

“Health is wealth; you can have nutritious and delicious. I think one of the reasons why he might have married me is because I used to cook for him a lot and pack his lunches to go to work.” 

“Actually, this is a funny story,” Spiegel says with a chuckle. 

“One of our first designers at Snap, for my [30th] birthday [she] made me a cartoon of the beginning of Snap. One of the little cartoon panels basically shows me bringing junk food to work every day. Then one day it’s me with my little lunch box, and she’s like, ‘I knew.’” And then the next slide is us getting married,” he says. 

“I do love to cook. I even cooked for him on our wedding day,” she adds, of their backyard nuptials for 30 guests. 

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