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Kaia Gerber confessed she has 'had disordered eating in my life' and revealed how the glare of public scrutiny affected her method of coping with the issue.
'People are like: "You look terrible," and it doesn’t exactly make you go: "Oh, good. Let me get over this mental illness then!"' the model and actress recalled, insisting: 'Negativity has never saved someone’s life.'
The 24-year-old entered the spotlight as a teenager, following in the footsteps of her world-famous mother Cindy Crawford, one of the top Supermodels of the 1990s.
She has now offered her candid reflections on the way her own body image was impacted by those who measured her against Crawford.
'We’re clearly in one of those cycles right now where people are very, very, very thin,' she observed of the Ozempic era in the September issue of Vogue.
'As someone who’s been thin most of my life, I’ve always been compared against my mom - like, What’s wrong with Kaia? I’m so jealous of my mom’s body. I would have loved to be born with boobs and a butt,' she admitted.
Kaia Gerber confessed she has 'had disordered eating in my life' and revealed how the glare of public scrutiny affected her method of coping with the issue; pictured last week
The 24-year-old entered the spotlight as a teenager, following in the footsteps of her world-famous mother Cindy Crawford , one of the top Supermodels of the 1990s
'We’re clearly in one of those cycles right now where people are very, very, very thin,' she observed of the Ozempic era in the September issue of Vogue; Crawford pictured 1996
Crawford, 60, later achieved more lasting matrimony with businessman Rande Gerber, 64, and the pair welcomed Kaia and a son called Presley, 27.
Ryan Murphy has now united Homer and Kaia for the cast of his new show The Shards, which he co-created with acclaimed novelist Bret Easton Ellis.
In her new interview, Kaia rhapsodized about how heartened she was by the chorus of online fans were left drooling at the viral stills of Homer's 'dad bod' on Euphoria.
'Everyone’s being like: "This is so sexy." And I think that rocks,' Kaia gushed, whereas Homer took the more self-deprecating view that the 'fact that I’m apparently a body-positivity icon has opened my eyes to the absurdity of the media.'
While promoting The Shards, Kaia revealed she strenuously disagrees with the fans who describe her as a doppelganger of her mother.
'In all seriousness, it's an honor when people tell me I look like my mom. I wish I did. I think even on my best days, I'm not even close,' she raved to Yahoo! Entertainment.
'But it means so much to me. I think she's just the most beautiful woman inside and out. And so if there's any way that I remind anyone of her, it's just like the largest compliment,' the Bottoms actress continued.
'We’re clearly in one of those cycles right now where people are very, very, very thin,' she observed in the September issue of Vogue; Kaia pictured last week
Crawford herself has taken a defiant tone when prodded about the frequent allegations that the fashion industry promoted eating disorders.
'That's a little bit of a stretch,' she said in a 2009 interview with the Guardian. 'I don't know that much about eating disorders, but I'm certainly not one of the people they've blamed, because I'm not super-skinny.'
She added: 'I think people want to find something to blame. An eating disorder is way more than a girl looking at a magazine and seeing a picture of a skinny model. Maybe that's one tiny piece of the puzzle, but I think it's a lot more about self-esteem and self-love and control, so it's too simplistic to just blame it on models who are skinny.'
Her heyday, the age of the Amazonian Supermodels, gave way in the later 1990s to the 'heroin chic' aesthetic inextricably identified with Kate Moss.
'Did fashion celebrate thinness more? That's a different question,' Crawford reflected. 'You can't fault the models for that – they were just thin girls.'
She maintained: 'Kate Moss, she eats. I've seen her eat, and she's just thin. Fashion is all about extremes, and it's constantly in flux. It's just fashion.'
Earlier this year, Kaia shared that her mother's relaxed approach to naked photos had proven a salutary example to her during her upbringing.
Crawford posed nude for Playboy early in her career in 1988, a slightly risky career move that paid off in spades by dramatically increasing her public profile.
While Kaia was growing up, images of her mother undressed were displayed around the house, but they 'were, to me, artistic,' she told Harper's Bazaar.
'It wasn't vulgar; it wasn't objectification,' Kaia added, insisting it had been 'a gift to grow up in a house that was without shame for the female body.'