She rose to prominence in as one of the Victoria's Secret Angels. Kerr was the first Australian Victoria's Secret model and also represented the Australian department store chain David Jones. She has launched her own brand of organic skincare products, KORA Organics , and has written a self-help book. Kerr began modelling in the fashion industry when she was 13, winning the Dolly magazine model search competition. Since , she has consistently ranked on the Forbes list of highest earning models.
She was previously married to English actor Orlando Bloom , with whom she had her first son. Her mother gave birth to her when 17 years old. Kerr is of English ancestry, with smaller amounts of Scottish and French.
She describes her early life in the Australian countryside as "very grounding You could just be you. Her family moved to Brisbane , Queensland , to allow Kerr and her brother to experience city life. Kerr was initially reluctant to leave her childhood hometown, but her first boyfriend, called Christopher Middlebrook, died in a car accident when they were teenagers and she said it was too painful to stay there.
Kerr studied nutrition and health psychology before pursuing modelling. She was flown to Sydney a week before her 14th birthday to shoot for the magazine. Upon Kerr's win, local media expressed "concerned outrage" at her young age. The controversy raised concerns about the glorification of young girls within the fashion, beauty, and entertainment industries.
Some media outlets claimed her Dolly shoot including images of a year-old Kerr in bathing suits constituted a form of paedophilia. 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.
