Miranda Kerr doesn’t stop. From running a skincare line and walking runways to starring in high-fashion campaigns to keeping up with family—all this while consistently looking immaculate.
Along with Kerr’s now four-year-old son, Flynn (with ex-husband Orlando Bloom), a new career was born. Kerr credits Louis Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquière for launching her into high fashion. “He really believed in me in a world where a lot of people don’t,” she says. “If you’re in a certain category, they keep you in that category. I started more commercially, and sometimes it’s hard to go the other way,” reported Harper’s Bazaar.
There are few models other than Kerr who can represent Louis Vuitton while selling Swarovski rings and also designing a line of Royal Albert teacups. “I have to approach my career with a wink,” she explains. “Otherwise you can be really self-critical, because there’s always someone else. I’ve struggled with that. The perception is that I have it all. But in the modelling industry, it’s not all what it appears to be. People don’t realise that.” In 2009, Kerr launched Kora Organics, her immensely popular skin-care line. All of this adds up to an income upwards of $7 million a year.
Contrary to the press, Kerr isn’t dating much at all. “I’ll go on a date here and there if it works. But at this point my priority is my son. I’m not looking for a relationship. I’m just not.” But being a girl about town, she has some opinions on the business of courtship. The model has dispensed some sensible advice through her two books for young ladies, Treasure Yourself and Empower Yourself.
“Men don’t want to be disrespected, and women feel the best when they feel cherished,” she says. “So if a woman is feeling cherished, she will respect a man, and if a man’s feeling respected, he will cherish a woman. It doesn’t need to be complicated.” She continues: “You know, for a long time I had it the wrong way. I was constantly doing, doing and just giving for my partner. But what works is not feeling like you have to be everything to everyone.”
Right now, Kerr is concerned with only one man, her boisterous son Flynn. “He’s the sweetest boy, really so gentle and so loving. I get tears in my eyes because I’m so proud of him. He’s really engaging and funny.”
And, conveniently, Bloom “lives 30 seconds away. Flynn has the best of both worlds that way,” she says, adding, “Orlando will always be my family. We get on so well. We hang out a lot. We’re a team, and we really work on that because Flynn is our priority. We’re both really transparent about everything.” She laughs. “Even though we don’t need to be,” reported Daily Mail.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 19th, 2015.
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