Kaia Gerber found her mom Cindy Crawford’s naked photo shoots empowering and “artistic”.
Kaia Gerber found her mom Cindy Crawford’s naked photo shoots empowering.
The 24-year-old model-and-actress grew up in a home where the supermodel’s nude portraits were on display but she never found the pictures “vulgar” and feels they helped teach her not to be ashamed of her body.
Kaya told Harper’s Bazaar magazine: “They were, to me, artistic. It wasn’t vulgar; it wasn’t objectification.
“[It was a] gift to grow up in a house that was without shame for the female body.”
Kaia began following in Cindy’s footsteps as a teenager, and while the 59-year-old beauty – who also has son Presley, 26, with husband Rande Gerber – never gave advice without being asked, she wasn’t afraid to be brutally honest with her daughter when she did seek out her mom’s opinion.
Kaia said: “She doesn’t give out advice unless you ask/
“But if you ask, get ready, because she’ll be very honest in ways that, sometimes, it’s hard to hear. She’s usually right, which is infuriating, but she’s also very willing to let me make a mistake that she made 30 years ago.”
Kaia – who was homeschooled from the age of 15 to accommodate her modelling career – was just 10 when she was chosen to appear in Versace’s first childrenswear campaign and she recalled her confused feelings at the time.
She said: I had all these adults, not only my parents, looking at me and being like, ‘What should we all do now?’
“I couldn’t decide I wasn’t in the mood that day.
“I was still so young. I was masking as an adult. Now that I’m more secure in my adulthood, I’m willing to show up messy and be kind of childish about certain things.”
The Palm Royale actress’ runway career soon took off and she is happy to take on whatever character is necessary for her catwalk campaigns.
She said: “I’m quite happy to be a vessel. It’s not lost on me that part of my job is just being what people want me to be and being a canvas or mirror for people to reflect their own ideas onto.”
But Kaia finds balance with acting, particularly working in theatre.
She explained: “I love theatre because it is immortalised in people’s memories but not immortalised in … media. So much of what I’ve done—every photo—is immortalised on the internet. It gets taken from me.
“The wonderful thing about theatre is kind of how I feel about my childhood. I had my experience, and the people watching had their experience. I can’t go back and watch from the audience. I can only experience it from where I stood.”
Kaia Gerber praises mom Cindy Crawford’s nude photoshoots
