Kaia Gerber said in an Aug. 11 Vogue interview that growing up as Cindy Crawford’s daughter came with constant body comparisons and a history of disordered eating. Her comments add a blunt, personal account of how appearance scrutiny can follow a young model long after the first campaign.
Young Versace at 10
At age 10, Gerber booked a Young Versace campaign, a detail that helps explain why the public started reading her body as part of the job before she had much room to define it herself. She said people have always commented on her body, and that those comments have followed her into adulthood.
Gerber put the comparison in plain language: “As someone who's been thin most of my life, I've always been compared against my mom – like, What's wrong with Kaia?” She also said, “I'm so jealous of my mom's body. I would have loved to be born with boobs and a butt.”
Vogue on Aug. 11
On Aug. 11, Gerber also said, “People have always commented on my body, which is hard because I'm not always ready to comment on my own body, you know?” That line matters because it shows the pressure lands before she can even set her own terms for what to say publicly.
She went further and connected the criticism to health: “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 statement is specific about the damage cycle she describes — comment, shame, and then no relief.
Lewis Pullman relationship
Gerber said she has been romantically linked to Pete Davidson, Jacob Elordi, Austin Butler, and Lewis Pullman, and she described the last relationship as different from the public narrative around her dating life. “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 also said, “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.” That is the sharper point in her interview: the scrutiny is not only about how she looks, but also about how the public packages her private life into a label. She said she has been called “serial dater, slut, greedy.”
Gerber is now promoting Ryan Murphy's new FX teen thriller The Shards, which keeps the focus on her work rather than the shorthand around her name. For readers who see the same body commentary in their own lives, the most practical takeaway is her warning against feeding it: she said the negativity does nothing but deepen the damage, and she tied that directly to her history with disordered eating. Support is available through the National Alliance for Eating Disorders Helpline at 1-866-662-1235 and 741-741.
