Kaia Gerber: Age, Height, Relationships & Supermodel Status

Age: 23 (born September 3, 2001) ·
Height: 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) ·
Occupation: Model and actress ·
Notable films: Bottoms, Babylon, Saturday Night ·
Parents: Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber

Eight data points, one honest catch: height is the only figure that varies — most profiles list 5 ft 9 in or 5 ft 9½ in, and IMDb (film-industry database) separately shows 5 ft 10 in — so the rest of this table is the stable public record from the Wikipedia profile cited above.

Is Kaia Gerber considered a supermodel?

What makes a supermodel in today’s industry?

• The 1990s definition: household-name recognition — think Crawford, Campbell, Turlington — not just runway volume.
• The 2020s definition: runway credibility plus cultural reach, social following, and brand longevity.
• The practical test the industry uses: can she open a show, sell a fragrance, and stay booked for a decade?

By every version of that test, Gerber’s résumé clears the bar on volume and reach. The fuzzy part is the “household name” half — and that’s where the debate lives. She is the rare model whose name is searched more for her family than for her face; the supermodel label has to absorb that fact.

Kaia Gerber’s major brand campaigns and runway shows

• Her first reported job was a Young Versace campaign around age 10, followed by a Teen Vogue cover at 13 (Cherwell profile cited above).
• Between 2016 and 2018, she racked up a Vogue cover with Cindy Crawford, multiple Vogue Paris covers, a Marc Jacobs Daisy campaign, and Spring 2018 walks for Chanel, Prada, and Alexander Wang (Cherwell profile cited above).
• Her runway debut came on September 7, 2017, at Raf Simons’s Calvin Klein Spring 2018 show (Vogue, cited above).

Critical reception and market opinion

• Vogue’s own coverage, linked above, called the Calvin Klein moment “a first step toward supermodel status.”
• The British Fashion Awards named her Model of the Year in 2018, per the Wikipedia profile cited above.
• Market opinion since: established top model, still-debated supermodel — the gap is about fame, not bookings.

The pattern is worth naming: Gerber didn’t have to fight for a first look — she had to fight for a second, third, and fourth impression after the Crawford novelty wore off. The bookings from 2017 through 2018 suggest she won that fight; the “supermodel” argument is just the industry catching up to its own calendar.

What this means: the debate over a title has not slowed the demand for her face.

Who all has Kaia Gerber dated?

Kaia Gerber’s relationship with Lewis Pullman

• The current reported relationship: actor Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), born in 1991 — about a 10- to 11-year age gap with Gerber, born in 2001 (Harper’s Bazaar, cited above).
• It’s the longest reported link of her adult life, and the most private: few public appearances, no joint interviews.
• None of her relationships has been publicly confirmed by Gerber herself; she keeps the personal details off her feed.

Previous relationships and dating timeline

• 2019: media reports linked her to model Wellington Grant — never confirmed by either party — and later that year she was photographed with Pete Davidson; reports said that link was over by January 2020 (Harper’s Bazaar, cited above).
• From September 2020 through 2021, reports linked her to actor Jacob Elordi after Malibu sightings (Harper’s Bazaar, cited above).
• The coverage pattern: short speculative stretches between long silences.

Public perception of her love life

• Her strategy: no confirmations, no takedowns, no comment — the industry’s quiet playbook.
• The result is a dating history that reads like a media transcript, not a biography.

What’s confirmed is her approach: let the work sit in front of the camera and keep everything else out of it.

What this means: the “who has she dated” question is answered by tabloid-timeline consensus, not by Gerber — treat the entire history as reported, not admitted.

What this means: the silence is the story, and the work remains the public record.

Who are Kaia Gerber’s best friends?

Family as friends: Presley Gerber

• Her brother Presley, also a model, is the family member she’s photographed with most — the sibling bond is one of the few personal things the Gerbers share publicly (InStyle, cited above).
• Their appearances together, at events and on each other’s feeds, are the closest thing either sibling has to a public friendship story.

Fellow models and actress friends

• Her circle, per media profiles, is small: fellow models and a few young actors, rarely photographed as a group.
• The “best friends list” that gossip pages publish is assembled from co-star sightings, not from Gerber’s own posts.

That restraint is part of why the term “professional” keeps appearing in profiles.

What friends say about her personality

• The adjective that surfaces in interview profiles: professional — prepared, low-drama, on time.
• “Is Kaia Gerber nice?” In the industry sense — no diva stories, no ghosted fittings, no leaked tantrums — the answer is yes.

The niceness question is really a durability question. People who work with her keep rebooking her, which is the fashion equivalent of a glowing reference.

The catch: “best friends” is the one question no outlet can answer, because Gerber doesn’t feed that content machine. The absence of friend drama is itself the answer.

What did Val Kilmer say about Cindy Crawford?

Val Kilmer’s memoir “I’m Your Huckleberry”

• In his memoir I’m Your Huckleberry, Kilmer revisited his mid-1980s crush on Crawford; the line that headlines keep recycling calls her “the most beautiful woman in the world.”
• The book’s context is the Top Gun era, when Kilmer was a rising Hollywood name and Crawford was emerging as a global supermodel.
• Kilmer’s memoir is the primary source for the quote — the wording has been loosely repeated for years, so the context matters more than the copy.

The context of his comments in the 1980s

• Kilmer and Crawford crossed paths at the peak of 1980s celebrity culture, where Top Gun stars and runway icons shared the same party circuit.
• His description was part of a broader recollection of that period, not a public declaration — the memoir format made it a confession, not a headline.
• That distinction gets lost in search results: the quote is usually presented as a grand public statement, when it was actually a personal memory.

Cindy Crawford’s response

• Crawford’s public response has been graceful: polite deflection in interviews, no awkwardness, no escalation.
• She has never treated the comment as a controversy, which fits her broader media strategy — engage with the work, smile past the gossip.

The “actress who looks like Cindy Crawford” question has the same anti-climactic answer: it’s not an actress, it’s her daughter. The resemblance is the family’s most marketable asset, and it’s the reason this Kilmer anecdote keeps surfacing in Kaia Gerber profiles at all.

How many facelifts has Cindy Crawford had?

Cindy Crawford on aging and cosmetic procedures

• Crawford’s stated position, repeated in interviews for years: she has not had a facelift.
• She has acknowledged occasional non-invasive treatments — which is not the same as surgery, but blurs easily in headlines.
• She credits genetics and an active lifestyle for how she looks at 50-plus.

Rumors and denials over the years

• The “how many facelifts” question is a search-engine artifact: no public source has ever documented a facelift; the rumor runs on before-and-after photo speculation.
• Fan-magazine figures — a dress size around 4–6, a weight around 130 lbs (59 kg) — are estimates, not Crawford’s own numbers.
• The jeans brands most associated with her off-duty look: AG Jeans and Paige Denim, from paparazzi and campaign photos.

Her approach to beauty and fitness

• Crawford’s public brand has always been the “healthy supermodel” — athletic, low-drama, disciplined — and her denials fit that brand.
• Her closest circle, by her own interviews, is small: husband Rande Gerber and a few longtime industry friends — the “best friend” answer varies by interview year.
• The model who looks most like Crawford, by consensus: her daughter (InStyle, cited above).

The trade-off: Crawford’s refusal to discuss specifics means every age-related photo becomes evidence to someone. The facelift count will never be settled by a document — it’s a rumor kept alive by the absence of documentation, and the only “answer” is her own no.

The pattern: a private refusal to engage keeps the rumor circulating without a source to settle it.

Career timeline

Nine milestones, one pattern: each step was documented in real time — Vogue covered the debut, IMDb logged the dates, and Cherwell and Harper’s Bazaar filled in the runway and relationship stretches.

The implication: her career has moved in two-year cycles — one runway landmark, one acting credit, one relationship report — and the pace hasn’t slowed since 2015. The next cycle is the one to watch.

What’s confirmed and what’s still unclear

The confirmed column below is tied to the anchors cited in the sections above — birthplace, filmography, and relationship details all trace to IMDb, Wikipedia, and Harper’s Bazaar. The unclear column is, by definition, the part without a reliable paper trail.

The balance of the ledger matters: the confirmed list is short because the record is short — everything else is media inference layered over a very private person.

In their own words

Three voices shape the Kaia Gerber conversation: the man who had a famous crush on her mother, the mother herself, and Kaia.

…the most beautiful woman in the world.

Val Kilmer, on Cindy Crawford, in his memoir I’m Your Huckleberry

“No surgical lifts — only occasional non-invasive treatments.”

Cindy Crawford, on cosmetic procedures, as phrased in magazine interviews

“I’m very proud of my mom, but I want to create my own name.”

Kaia Gerber, as paraphrased in media profiles

The last one deserves a transparency note: the wording is her consistent public line, but it’s rarely attached to a single verified interview — treat it as the message, not a transcript.

Three voices, one pattern: the older generation talks about the past; Kaia lets the work speak for the present.

The takeaway

None of this means the comparisons will disappear — every Vogue cover, every film premiere, every relationship report gets the “Cindy Crawford’s daughter” framing somewhere. But the weight of that framing is shrinking with each booking: the houses that could have signed her for novelty kept signing her for work, and the film credits are no longer cameos. For casting directors and brand marketers, the decision is effectively made — book the Gerber name and get a professional who delivers, or keep chasing the next famous-daughter gamble, which the record says is the riskier bet.

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