Miranda May Kerr was born on April 20, 1983, in Sydney, Australia, to Therese and John Kerr, who had her when Therese was 17. She grew up mostly in Gunnedah, a rural town in New South Wales, where she raced motorbikes and rode horses on her grandmother’s farm, and has a younger brother, Matthew. Her family later moved to Brisbane to give her and her brother more exposure to city life, and she graduated from All Hallows’ School in 2000, where she had studied nutrition and health psychology before turning to modeling full time.

These biographical details, including her parents’ ages and her upbringing in Gunnedah and Brisbane, are documented on her Wikipedia biography page.

Kerr’s modeling career began in 1997, when she won the Dolly magazine and Impulse model search competition at age 13, an unexpected entry submitted by a friend. She signed with Chic Management’s Sydney division and spent her early years modeling swimwear and surf apparel for Australian brands including Billabong, Tigerlily, Roxy and Seafolly, for whom she became a brand ambassador. In 2004 she signed with Next Management in New York and began building an international runway resume, walking for designers including Alex Perry, Baby Phat, L.A.M.B. and Roberto Cavalli.

Her Dolly magazine win and early Australian modeling work, along with her 2004 move to Next Management in New York, are documented on her Wikipedia page.

Kerr’s career shifted into a higher gear in 2006 when she became the face of Victoria’s Secret’s PINK line, followed in 2007 by her selection as the first Australian Victoria’s Secret Angel, joining the brand’s roster alongside established Angels such as Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima. In 2008 she added the role of face of Clinique’s Happy fragrance and signed a six-figure contract with Australian department store chain David Jones, and Forbes ranked her among the world’s highest-earning models that year with reported earnings of roughly 3.5 to 4 million dollars.

Her Victoria’s Secret Angel selection, Clinique and David Jones deals, and 2008 Forbes earnings ranking are documented on her Wikipedia page.

Kerr reached new career milestones in the early 2010s. She appeared in the 2010 Pirelli Calendar, photographed in Bahia, Brazil, and the same year became the exclusive face of Balenciaga’s runway show under casting directors Ashley Brokaw and Nicolas Ghesquiere. In 2011 she became the first model to appear on a Vogue Australia cover while visibly pregnant, six months along, and returned to the runway for Balenciaga just two months after giving birth to son Flynn. By 2013 she had climbed to number two on Forbes’ World’s Highest-Paid Models list with reported earnings of 7.2 million dollars, up from number seven the previous year, a jump driven partly by the Asian launch of KORA Organics and endorsement deals with Lipton Tea and the detergent brand Bold.

The Pirelli Calendar and Balenciaga exclusivity are documented on her Wikipedia page, and her 2013 Forbes ranking and earnings figure are reported by Forbes.

Kerr remained a fixture on Forbes’ annual highest-paid models rankings for most of the 2010s, placing third in 2014 with reported earnings of 7 million dollars, sixth in 2015 at 6.5 million dollars, and tenth in 2016 at 6 million dollars. In December 2015 she became the first Australian model to appear on the cover of Vogue Thailand. Her profile as a global commercial face continued into 2017, when she starred in a Buick television commercial alongside NFL quarterback Cam Newton during Super Bowl LI and fronted Louis Vuitton’s “Connected Journeys” campaign for its Tambour Horizon smartwatch.

Her Forbes rankings across 2014 to 2016, the Vogue Thailand cover, and her 2017 Buick and Louis Vuitton campaigns are documented on her Wikipedia page.

Beyond her Victoria’s Secret Angel run from 2007 to 2013, which ended when a reported three-year, 1-million-dollar contract was not renewed in April 2013, Kerr has fronted a long list of global campaigns. She has been the face of Maybelline since 2006 and served since 2013 as the face of Swarovski, for whom she also designed a jewelry line in 2015. Her endorsement roster has included David Jones, Clinique’s Happy fragrance, a three-year deal with H&M beginning in 2014, Reebok, Wonderbra, Qantas as brand ambassador from 2012, Givenchy’s spring/summer 2016 campaign alongside Joan Smalls and Natalia Vodianova, and Joe Fresh’s fall 2016 campaign. She also opened Jeremy Scott’s Moschino Resort 2017 show.

Her Victoria’s Secret contract terms and her Maybelline, Swarovski, H&M, Givenchy and Moschino relationships are documented on her Wikipedia page.

Kerr founded her skincare brand KORA Organics with business partner George Moskos in October 2009, building it around COSMOS Organic certification rather than relying on her celebrity profile alone. The company has never taken outside investment, and Kerr has said she reinvested every dollar of profit back into the business since its founding; she now owns an estimated 95 percent of the company, which she runs as chief executive. KORA Organics expanded from an Australia-only label into a global brand sold in more than 2,500 stores across 40 countries, including a nationwide U.S. Sephora rollout in May 2017, and industry estimates place its annual revenue at 20 million dollars or more as of 2024. Kerr also authored “Treasure Yourself,” a self-esteem and self-help book aimed at teenage girls, published the same year she launched KORA Organics.

KORA Organics’ ownership structure, bootstrapped funding and revenue estimates are reported by Femfounded, and Kerr discusses the brand’s growth and her role as CEO in an interview with Forbes Australia.

In 2014, shortly after her split from then-husband Orlando Bloom, Kerr purchased a Malibu property for 2.2 million dollars from the estate of actor James Whitmore, who had owned it for three decades. The roughly 3,700-square-foot home sits on a 0.73-acre lot above the Pacific Coast Highway and includes six bedrooms, six bathrooms, a 40-foot swimming pool with a separate pool house, and a detached guest house. Kerr listed the property in February 2024 asking 4.5 million dollars and sold it that August for 4.115 million dollars, nearly doubling her purchase price over a decade of ownership. She now lives primarily in Los Angeles with her husband, Snap Inc. chief executive Evan Spiegel, and their children.

The Malibu property’s purchase price, features and 2024 sale price are reported by Elite Agent.