Miranda Kerr, the newest Victoria’s Secret Angel, is an Australian fashion model. She is currently based in New York City. She is best known for her campaigns with Victoria’s Secret and Maybelline, as well as for being the face of Australian fashion chain-store Portmans.
Biography
Miranda was born on February 20, 1983. She was raised in the Australian rural town of Gunnedah. She has a younger brother named Matt. Kerr began modeling at age 13 after winning the
Dolly/Impulse Modeling Competition in 1997. This win sparked significant media attention and controversy over her age and maturity, and the matter of paedophilia and child pornography. Kerr dismissed these claims in an interview, stating “They were blowing out [sic] of proportion. In the media at the time they were trying to cling on to anything remotely to do with paedophilia. Dolly is a magazine for teenage girls, not for old men. And I was fully clothed! Doing a winter shoot! They just made something out of nothing.”
Modeling Career
Kerr was described by one fashionista as having an Audrey Hepburn and a “hyper-feminine” look. Her success as a model has been phenomenal and, as a result, she now appears at high profile fashion shows, while also gaining coverage in various campaigns.
To this point, Miranda’s career has consisted of catwalks, fashion and beauty shoots, as well as TV and magazine advertising campaigns. She has modeled for Maybeline New York, Levis, Portmans, Jets, Blumarine Swimwear, John Richmond, Lisa Ho, Veet, Bonds, Peter Alexander, Elle, Harpers Baazar, Italian Glamour, Oyster, Squint and Australian Vogue as well as walked for big fashion designers such as Anna Mollinari, Just Cavalli, BabyPhat, Enrico Coveri, Amuleti J, Cia Maritima, Betsey Johnson, Nicola Finetti, Betsy Liano, John Richmond, L.A.M.B and many more.
In the second season of Project Runway, she modelled for Daniel Vosovic at Fashion week.
She is also a model for Victoria’s Secret and in 2005 she was the first ever Australian model to appear in a Victoria’s Secret runway show.
Music videos
Miranda appears in the Pharrell and Kanye West music video “Number 1″. She also stars in her boyfriend’s debut music video “Everything to Me” for his band Tamarama, which is available to be viewed on youTube.
Endorsements
Miranda is the spokesperson for Noni Juice. She says, “It’s what I put in the inside so I glow on the outside”.
Personal Life
She was recently linked to Hollywood star Orlando Bloom, but this turned out to be a publicity stunt set up by the developers of the Atelier building on West 42nd Street in New York City. The Atelier corportaion have also offered celebrities such as Lindsay Lohan free use of their apartments to generate buzz around the development.
Kerr is currently dating Australian musician and Storm model Brent Tuhtan, who is in a band called Tamarama and recently scored an international Diesel jeans campaign.
The couple live in Miranda’s $1 million dollar New York City uptown apartment.
Miranda Kerr’s ex boyfriend Adrian Camilleri recently hit the Australian headlines after pleading guilty to five counts of fraud. He faces up to five years in jail. According to an Australian news site, friends of Kerr say that she lost some of her own million-dollar earnings due to Camilleri’s bad financial advice throughout the 18-months that she dated him. “Her parents disapproved of him. It was an extremely traumatic time,” a Kerr family friend revealed.
Some news reports, including New York Post’s Page Six (who were unable to get responses from either Bündchen’s reps or from Victoria’s Secret), are concluding that her decision to leave the company was solely because Victoria’s Secret wouldn’t raise her $5 Million a year salary. However, there is still more to the story. Gisele has hinted at needing a change more than once. Last November, at the
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