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BIOGRAPHY

Miranda Kerr
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Miranda May Kerr, born on April 20, 1983, in Sydney but raised in Gunnedah, New South Wales a small rural town to Therese and John Kerr, is an Australian model, best known as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels (the first Australian addition to the Victoria's Secret campaign), and as the face of Australian fashion chain Portmans.

Kerr rose to prominence in the late 90's within the fashion industry after winning an Australian nation-wide model search hosted by Dolly Magazine and Impulse fragrances and has found continued success globally.

Kerr has a younger brother named Matthew. During her childhood, Kerr revealed she "raced motorbikes and rode horses on grandmother’s farm" and describes her early life in the Australian countryside as "very grounding ... there wasn’t any pretentiousness and no one really cared what you were wearing. You could just be you." 

At thirteen, Kerr entered and won the 1997 annual Dolly Magazine/Impulse Model Competition and was flown to Sydney a week before her fourteenth birthday to shoot for the magazine. Upon winning, local media expressed 'concerned outrage' at her young age and rose concern about the glorification of young girls within the entertainment industry, suggesting her youthful covers in skimpy attire constituted soft-core pornography. Media publications also took her youth as an opportunity to debate the objectification of young girls within the fashion and beauty industry, with some conservative media outlets claiming her Dolly shoot (including images of fourteen year old Kerr in bathing suits) constituted child pornography. Of the press, Kerr said: "In the media at the time they were trying to cling on to anything remotely to do with paedophilia. Dolly is a magazine for teenage girls, not for old men. And I was fully clothed! Doing a winter shoot! They just made something out of nothing."

Following the mixed-reactions to her break-out Dolly Magazine fashion spread, Kerr chose to pursue modelling part-time while studying, however as her local fame increased, Kerr was forced to continually defend her professional choices against the continuing public backlash and suffered emotional distress following the death of her high-school boyfriend during her final year of schooling. Eventually overcoming the trauma, Kerr signed to Chadwick Models Melbourne Division after graduating high-school, followed by Chic Model Management Sydney Division and found modelling success in both her native Australia and in Japan before relocating to New York after a series of beach-ware campaigns, predominantly for Australian surf chain Billabong (in which Kerr modelled for surf brands Tigerlily, Roxy, Billabong Girls and One Teaspoon) receiving commercial exposure in both the Australian and Asian markets.

Following a multitude of runway appearances, Kerr signed with Next model agency in early 2004 after relocating to New York City, and was immediately booked for runway and print campaigns for Baby Phat, Lisa Ho, Voodoo Dolls, Levi's, Bettina Liano, Nicola Finetti, L.A.M.B, Heatherette, Betsey Johnson, Trelise Cooper, Jets, John Richmond, Blumarine Swimwear, Seafolly Swimwear, Anna Molinari, Roberto Cavalli, Enrico Coveri, Arden B, Cia Maritima, Amuleti J and appeared frequently in the televised Victoria's Secret runway parades. Kerr was also booked for print in magazines such as Elle, Oyster, Madison, Australian Vogue andHarpers Bazaar and was featured in television adverts for brands such as Portmans, Bonds and Veet.

In 2006, Kerr broke the US market when she signed a lucrative cosmetics contract with Maybelline New York, the campaign running in a series of internationally sold women's beauty magazines including Cosmopolitan, CLEO and ELLE and was eventually featured in Victoria's Secret catalogues. Following her success with Maybelline, Kerr became the first Australian model to be offered a contract with Victoria's Secret and upon her acceptance, became the first ever Australian Victoria's Secret Angel and a featured model on the companies internationally accessed website, joining the stable of prestige models already signed to the lingerie giant including Gisele Bündchen, Alessandra Ambrosio,Karolína Kurková,Adriana Lima, Selita Ebanks, and Heidi Klum.

Kerr increasing popularity as one of the globally recognized Angels led Kerr to be featured in the Victoria's Secret 2006 and 2007 televised runway shows, aired in North America, Australasia, Europe, South America and the United Kingdom. Most recently, Kerr has signed as the face of Californian fashion retailer Arden B. After debuting in their Spring and Summer ad campaigns, Kerr returned for their Fall 2007 campaign, shot by fashion photographer Diego Uchitel and currently became the new face of Clinique Happy.  

Kerr (and several other Victoria's Secret and Next agency models) was featured in a music video for American hip-hop stars Kanye West and Pharrell Williams single Number One. Kerr was also featured in a 2006 music video for then boyfriend Jay G Lyon's band Tamarama's independently released single Everything To Me. Following her modelling success with Victoria's Secret, Kerr made a small guest appearance in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother alongside fellow Victoria's Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Marisa Miller, Heidi Klum and Selita Ebanks.