Kaia Gerber
Kaia Gerber is an American model and actress, the daughter of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, who has moved from runway work for Chanel and Versace to steady acting roles. In September 2026 she is on the cover of American Vogue with her co-star Homer Gere, a deliberate echo of the 1992 cover shared by their parents, and she has just finished the first season of Ryan Murphy's FX series The Shards.
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Where does Kaia Gerber live?
She splits her time between New York City and Malibu, California. She was born and raised in Los Angeles County, keeps the Malibu base where she grew up, and has lived in New York since the early years of her modelling career, which is where her agency DNA Model Management and her book club's events are based. She does not discuss exact addresses. Sources: Wikipedia, Vogue.
What is Kaia Gerber's nationality?
American. She was born Kaia Jordan Gerber in Los Angeles, California, on September 3, 2001, and holds US citizenship. Her mother, Cindy Crawford, is from DeKalb, Illinois; her father, Rande Gerber, is from New York. Source: Wikipedia.
How old is Kaia Gerber?
25. She was born on September 3, 2001, so she turned 25 a week before the September 2026 Vogue issue reached newsstands. She has been working as a model for fifteen of those years: her first job, for Young Versace, came at the age of ten. Source: Wikipedia.
How tall is Kaia Gerber?
About 5 ft 9½ in, or 1.77 m, the figure listed by her modelling agencies. That is tall for the street and fairly standard for high fashion, where the runway range sits between 1.75 m and 1.80 m. Her mother Cindy Crawford is 1.75 m. Source: Wikipedia, DNA Model Management.
Who are Kaia Gerber's parents?
Model Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, the founder of the Gerber Group hospitality company and co-founder, with George Clooney, of the Casamigos tequila brand. Her parents married in 1998. Her older brother, Presley Gerber, also modelled before stepping back from the industry. Source: Wikipedia.
Why is Kaia Gerber on the cover of Vogue in September 2026?
Because of a coincidence American Vogue could not leave alone. Gerber and Homer Gere, her co-star in The Shards, are the children of Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere, who appeared together on the cover of the magazine in November 1992. Thirty-four years later, Steven Meisel, who shot that first cover, photographed the pair for the September 2026 issue, dressed in Matthieu Blazy's autumn 2026 Chanel collection. September is the year's biggest fashion issue, which makes the placement a statement rather than a coincidence. Sources: Vogue, Fashion Times.
What did Kaia Gerber say about being a nepo baby?
She took the term head-on in the Vogue interview: "I've only ever been a nepo baby, and I've only ever benefited in my career from it." She went further and said she can be sceptical of other famous children herself, wanting to see what they have actually done to deserve a job. It is an unusually direct answer to a debate most people in her position try to dodge. Sources: Vogue, Fox News.
What does Kaia Gerber play in The Shards?
She plays Susan Reynolds in the FX and Hulu series, adapted from Bret Easton Ellis's novel and co-created by Ellis with Ryan Murphy. Set in Los Angeles in 1981, it follows pupils at an elite prep school as a serial killer known as the Trawler closes in. The nine-episode first season ran from August 5 to September 9, 2026. Sources: FX, Wikipedia, TVInsider.
What films and TV shows has Kaia Gerber been in?
Her screen work started with a small part in Sister Cities (2016), then American Horror Story: Double Feature (2021). Since then: Babylon (2022) for Damien Chazelle, the comedy Bottoms (2023) as Brittany, Saturday Night (2024) as Jacqueline Carlin, Mitzi across Apple TV's Palm Royale (2024 to 2026), and The Shards (2026). Source: Wikipedia.
What is Library Science, Kaia Gerber's book club?
A book club and small publishing venture she launched in March 2024 with Alyssa Reeder. Its stated purpose is the opposite of a celebrity reading list: it pushes debut authors, translated work and books that never reach the bestseller tables, and runs physical events rather than just posting picks. Sources: Library Science, Hola, PureWow.
Which brands has Kaia Gerber modelled for?
She is signed with DNA Model Management in New York and VIVA in Paris, London and Milan, and has worked for Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Valentino, Versace and YSL Beauty. Her runway debut came at sixteen, for Raf Simons at Calvin Klein, and she collaborated with Karl Lagerfeld on the KarlxKaia collection in 2018, the year she was named Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards. Source: Wikipedia.
Who is Kaia Gerber dating?
She has been linked with the actor Lewis Pullman since January 2025, and the couple keep the relationship quiet, appearing together only occasionally, including at a Library Science event. Before that she dated Austin Butler (2021 to January 2025), Jacob Elordi and Pete Davidson. She does not comment on her private life in interviews. Sources: Wikipedia, press reports.
Does Kaia Gerber have a brother or sister?
One older brother, Presley Gerber, born in 1999. He modelled in his late teens and early twenties, walked for Dolce & Gabbana and Omega among others, and has since kept a lower profile. Source: Wikipedia.
Kaia Gerber: the model who kept choosing the harder job
Kaia Gerber arrived with every door already open. Born in Los Angeles on September 3, 2001 to Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, she shot her first campaign for Young Versace at ten, signed with DNA Model Management as a teenager, and walked her runway debut at sixteen for Raf Simons at Calvin Klein. By 2018, aged seventeen, she had a collection with Karl Lagerfeld and the Model of the Year award at the British Fashion Awards. None of that is a surprise for a 1.77 m Crawford daughter with the same eyebrows.
What she did next is the more interesting part. Instead of staying on the circuit, she started taking small, awkward, character-actor parts: a cult recruit in American Horror Story: Double Feature, a silent-era bit player in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon, the untouchable cheerleader Brittany in Bottoms, Jacqueline Carlin in Saturday Night, and three seasons as Mitzi in Apple TV’s Palm Royale. Each one is a supporting role. None of them were built around her face.
In 2024 she launched Library Science with Alyssa Reeder, a book club that deliberately avoids the bestseller list in favour of debut and translated fiction, with events in real rooms. It is the kind of side project that usually lasts one season; this one is still running and has grown into small-scale publishing.
Which brings her to September 2026 and a cover that she did not arrange but could not refuse. Vogue paired her with Homer Gere, her co-star in FX’s The Shards, and had Steven Meisel shoot them the way he shot Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere in November 1992. Asked the obvious question about inherited advantage, she did not deflect: she told the magazine she has only ever been a nepo baby and has only ever benefited from it, then added that she is sceptical of other famous children too. The first season of The Shards, nine episodes, ended on September 9, 2026. FX has not yet said whether there will be a second, though Ryan Murphy has talked about three or four.
