Background and career
Kaia Jordan Gerber (born September 3, 2001) is an American model and actress. After starring in a series of ad campaigns for fashion brands since debuting at Fashion Week in 2017, Gerber won Model of the Year at the British Fashion Awards in 2018. As an actress, she has appeared in supporting roles in the films Bottoms (2023) and Saturday Night (2024), and starred in a lead role in the FX series The Shards. She is the second child and only daughter of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber.
Kaia Jordan Gerber was born on September 3, 2001, in Los Angeles, California. She is the younger of two children born to the supermodel Cindy Crawford and the businessman Rande Gerber. She had an elder brother, Presley.
Her mother, who is of German, English, French, and Danish ancestry, is a Congregationalist Christian, and her father is an American Jew of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. In a 2018 interview, she stated "my dad is Jewish and my mom is Christian so we grew up doing both; we call it Chrismukah. I love learning about both of those sides of my life. We'd do Passover, Passover dinner and Yom Kippur. I love learning all of that, and learning the cooking." Through her mother, she is a descendant of English Puritan settler Thomas Trowbridge, who helped establish the Congregational Church in New Haven.
When she was 10, Gerber landed her first modeling gig with Versace's junior line, Young Versace. She took online classes at Malibu High School. She was part of the Young Versace S/S 12 campaign when she was only 10 years old. Gerber made her acting debut at 15 in Sister Cities as the young version of Carolina. In July 2015, she signed under IMG models.
Gerber appeared on the covers of Vogue Paris, Vogue Netherland, and Vogue India along with her mother in 2016. In 2016, Gerber was also part of the Marc Jacobs "Daisy" fragrance advertisement and beauty fall campaign. Gerber was also part of the Alexander Wang's S/S 16 campaign, and Chrome Hearts S/S 16 campaign. In 2017, Gerber appeared on the Teen Vogue Fall 2017 edition. In February 2018, Gerber appeared on the cover of Vogue Paris, in July 2018 on the cover of Vogue Italia and on October in the cover of Vogue Paris.
