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On the eve of the birth of her third child, Miranda Kerr talks marriage, motherhood, being a mogul (her beauty business

turns 10 this month!) and why she holidays with her ex

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My ideal situation would be to live on a farm in a solar-powered house with a hammock and a vegetable patch,” a 25-year-old Miranda Kerr once said at the height of her modelling career. “When this is all over, that’s where I’ll be. I’ve always wanted kids, so ... eventually, yes, it’ll happen.”

Fast forward 11 years and the solar-powered farm dream may not yet have materialised – the Gunnedah-raised model and skincare mogul lives in a beautiful home in Brentwood, LA – but kids? She’s definitely kept her promise on the kids.

At the time of writing, Kerr, 36, is nearly eight months pregnant with her third child, her second with husband and Snapchat cofounder Evan Spiegel, 29. She’s also mum to Flynn, 8, her son with ex-husband Orlando Bloom, and one-year-old Hart, her first child with Spiegel. As always when Kerr is speaking about her babies – even the ones she hasn’t given birth to yet – her voice floods with joy. Her two boys can’t wait to welcome a new addition to the family, judging by how devoted they are to each other. “Flynn is madly in love with Hart,” she says proudly. “He really wanted a little baby brother so much. There hasn’t been any jealousy or anything. It’s been very sweet. And when Flynn walks in the room, Hart lights up like a light bulb.”

Not that this pregnancy has been a dream from start to finish. Even supermodels suffer when those early pregnancy hormones take hold. “I feel good now,” she says of carrying her current little one, who is due later this year. “But there was a lot of morning sickness in the beginning. It was probably the harder pregnancy out of the three. Flynn was very smooth sailing. With Hart, I had a little bit of

morning sickness. But with this little one I’ve had terrible morning sickness. But I’m feeling good now and it’s not long to go now, which is exciting.”

The couple are keeping mum on everything to do with the new arrival. “Yes, we know the sex and we have names,” she says tantalisingly. “But it’s nice to keep a little to yourself.” However, she emphasises there’s only one baby in there. “When I was pregnant with Flynn, everyone asked me if I was [having twins]!” she laughs. “They’d say ‘You’re so big!’”

You get the impression that it wouldn’t matter how difficult or otherwise her pregnancies turned out to be, there’s nothing Kerr wouldn’t go through to be a mother. Every celebrity with kids takes pains to emphasise that their family comes first, but with Kerr you’re given constant reminders that she really means it. Part way through our chat we’re interrupted by the plaintive howl of a small child in the background. “Oh that’s Hart, Hart’s up,” she says. We pause our phone call as Kerr goes to pick up her youngest son from his sleep.

When Kerr was last in Australia in October 2018 on a promotional tour for her skincare line Kora Organics, Hart was only a few months old and she regularly excused herself from showing off her new products to beauty editors and other journalists to race upstairs to the hotel room (where he was being minded by Kerr’s mum) to breastfeed and soothe him.

And she makes a point of encouraging her Kora Organics employees to put the same emphasis on family time as she does. “I’m really flexible when it comes to anything the mums need to do, if they have to go to appointments or whatever,” she says.

“Flynn is madly in love with Hart, he really wanted a baby brother. It’s been very sweet”

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“I do a lot of meetings around Hart’s nap schedule – like the one I’m doing with you now – and I know when you’re able to do that you give so much more. Because you don’t feel pressured or guilty and all that stuff that happens when you’re a mum. But at the same time, it’s important for my children to understand that I work, and that that’s a part of life for all of us.”

Her kids-first attitude is what drives the unusually amicable relationship she has with Bloom, who she divorced in 2013 after three years of marriage, and his fiancée, singer Katy Perry. The two families are so relaxed with each other that they recently took a holiday to Italy together. Perry also attended Kerr’s most recent Kora Organics launch in Malibu, for her newest product, Noni Bright Vitamin C serum in July. “We are all very close and Flynn is our absolute priority,” Kerr says, adding that more joint jaunts are on the horizon. “We celebrate Christmas and Easter together. We’re family!”

It’s a part of her life that Kerr’s fans find particularly endearing, especially in a world where so many celebrity break-ups end in acrimonious mud-slinging, with each camp feeding slurs about the other to a greedy media outlet. “Goals!” wrote one commenter on a photo Kerr shared of herself and Perry at the Kora Organics launch. “Katy Perry is dating Miranda Kerr’s ex but they’re good friends – aww.” While another wrote, “Thank you for putting this message of women supporting women out into the world.”

Kerr’s other family, her other baby, is of course Kora Organics. She founded the Australian-made success story when she was only a few years into her international modelling career – demonstrating the sort of hard-headed business acumen that any model knows is the secret to enduring success once the big fashion and beauty contracts stop coming in. The brand turns 10 this October, but because the milestone coincides with her baby’s birth, any celebrations are, for now, on hold. But when they happen, there’ll be plenty to be proud of. Kora Organics is now sold in 25 countries, including more than 200 stores in Australia alone, and its products are loved by everyone from Gwyneth Paltrow, Katy Perry and Kourtney Kardashian to locals Shanina Shaik and Jesinta Franklin.

Over the years, Kerr has risked a lot of her own capital to grow the

“It’s important for my children to understand that I work, and that’s a part of our lives”

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brand, something she admits was at times terrifying. She personally owns 95 per cent of the company and continuously reinvests in packaging, research and marketing. Spiegel has, at many critical junctures, been a steady and encouraging voice. When US beauty giant Sephora approached Kerr about launching in their stores in 2016, she was initially daunted. “I said to Evan, ‘I’m scared. What if they don’t understand natural beauty [in the US]?’ And Evan was like, ‘Look, you have an incredible product and if you don’t do it you’ll never, ever know.’”

The heart of the brand is Kerr’s strict adherence to using not just organic ingredients, but certified organic ingredients – and yes, there’s a difference. “Clean beauty is a massive trend at the moment, but the thing with ‘clean’ beauty is, whatever country is manufacturing the product gets to determine what’s clean and what’s not,” a spokesperson for the company explains. “Whereas ‘certified organic’ means you are certified by an independent body. That’s something that sets Kora Organics apart from the whole movement.” The entire range is approved by two leading European independent organic certification bodies: Ecocert and Cosmos.

“There’s a lot of greenwashing going on,” says Kerr, although ultimately she’s pleased organic and natural products are so high in people’s minds, even if there’s still a way to go before people understand the differences between the products on offer. “Overall I’m happy people are becoming more educated about the benefits of natural products, and they can be as effective if not more [than the alternatives],” she says. “At the end of the day, your skin is the largest organ of your body and what you put on it goes directly into your bloodstream. So it just makes sense for me to use organic products.”

This year, Kerr is taking on yet another business baby, a signature homewares range with US furniture giant Universal Furniture, which will launch in coming months (with plans to expand into Australia at a later date). The collection, which includes soft, neutral staples with metallic accents, such as bedside and dining tables, bed frames and cabinetry, echoes the pared-back prettiness that is Kerr’s personal style. (She also has a feminine teaware range for Roayl Albert.) “My homewares are timeless, luxurious and not-in-your-face. It’s

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very liveable,” she says. Each part of the range is grouped under its own evocative label – bedroom furniture is part of the “Love” collection, dining pieces are called “Joy” and anything designed for the living space is titled “Bliss”. Plus, in true Kerr style, each piece comes with an inspiring word hidden somewhere on its form. “It means the pieces aren’t just about furniture; it’s an extension of me trying to bring a little bit of ... positivity [into the home] as well.”

Right now, though, Kerr’s focus is on her impending arrival and this next chapter for her family. So is three the limit for children, or could there be more on the horizon? “I don’t know,” she ponders. “Pregnancy is such a miracle and I feel incredibly blessed to have two healthy children and another on the way.” Regardless, she must surely be ready to take her foot off the pedal a little. Would she ever consider moving back home to a solar-powered farm? “Australia will always feel like home, but LA is our home right now and we’re only a flight away from my family and friends in Australia,” she says. “But I never say never. Who knows what the future holds?”

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“Pregnancy is such a miracle and I feel

blessed to have two healthy children and another on the way”

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