Kaia Gerber on Disordered Consuming, Physique Picture Struggles, Courting Life

Kaia Gerber is opening up about rising up within the limelight with supermodel mother Cindy Crawford and the scrutiny she’s confronted all through her profession.

Speaking with Vogue for a canopy story alongside her Shards co-star Homer Gere, Gerber mentioned how being within the public eye has affected her physique picture, why she embraces the “nepo baby” label and the way she’s handled being referred to as misogynistic names over her courting life.

“We’re clearly in one of those cycles right now where people are very, very, very thin,” the 24-year-old stated. “As someone who’s been thin most of my life, I’ve always been compared against my mom. Like, ‘What’s wrong with Kaia?’ I’m so jealous of my mom’s body. I would have loved to be born with boobs and a butt.”

“People have always commented on my body, which is hard because I’m not always ready to comment on my own body,” she stated, including, “I’ve had disordered eating in my life. People are like, ‘You look terrible,’ and it doesn’t exactly make you go, ‘Oh, good. Let me get over this mental illness then!’ Negativity has never saved someone’s life.”

The Saturday Night actress additionally opened up about how she’s been criticized over time for her relationships. Gerber has beforehand been linked to Pete Davidson, Jacob Elordi and Austin Butler. She’s presently courting Thunderbolts* star Lewis Pullman.

“There are so few things you get to protect as a famous person, and being defined by who you date when you’re 18 is something I find challenging,” she stated. “I think I’ve been labeled in ways that are quite misogynistic: serial dater, slut, greedy. My mom is always like, ‘Just don’t make the same mistake twice.’ And I’m pretty good at not.”

Gerber added that she desires to keep up her sense of self inside her relationships.

“I think the ultimate goal is that your relationship doesn’t change you, that you’re not code switching between relationship, friendship, professional life. I would love to always feel like me, and in this relationship I’m having the pleasure of doing that,” she stated.

As for being referred to as a “nepo baby” due to her well-known mom, Gerber stated she embraces the label and makes use of it as motivation to “work harder.”

“I’ve only ever been a nepo baby, and I’ve only ever benefited in my career from it. But I also find myself doing it to other nepo babies, thinking, like, OK, show me why you deserve this job,” she stated.

That perspective has additionally knowledgeable how Gerber has approached working with Gere, the son of veteran actor Richard Gere, who was married to Crawford from 1991 to 1995.

Gerber stated she warned Homer that his well-known household might have an effect on how audiences understand him as he begins his appearing profession.

“I said to Homer — because the concept is daunting to him, having lived as an adult so far without that perception, whereas I sort of went through it when I wasn’t fully sentient — I said to him, ‘Homer, unfortunately with this show, it’s not like you’re just any unknown actor and people will judge you as an unknown actor,’” she stated. “But what that’s done for me is make me want to work harder.”

Elsewhere within the Vogue story, Gere revealed how he and Gerber first addressed the truth that their dad and mom had been married to one another.

Gere recalled that Gerber was the one to interrupt the ice.

“Should we just acknowledge the fact that our parents were married?” he stated. “She was like, ‘Yeah. Cool.’ And that was it.”