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Kerr became the first pregnant model for Vogue
This is incorrect: Vogue had featured pregnant women, including pregnant models, before Miranda Kerr’s 2011 Vogue Australia cover.
Full reasoning
Vogue’s own historical feature says Brooke Shields appeared on a Vogue cover while pregnant in 2003, years before Kerr’s January 2011 cover. In addition, British Vogue reported in May 2010 that pregnant supermodel Claudia Schiffer appeared on the cover of German Vogue while expecting her third child. That means Kerr was not the first pregnant model to appear for Vogue.
So while Kerr may have been a notable pregnant cover star for Vogue Australia, the broader claim that she was “the first pregnant model for Vogue” is contradicted by Vogue’s own archival reporting and by earlier Vogue editions featuring pregnant cover subjects.
2 sources
- Vogue World: Fun Facts by the Numbers | Vogue
“3 Number of pregnant women to appear on the cover. In 2003, Brooke Shields, wet and pregnant, posed for Annie Leibovitz.”
- Claudia Schiffer naked pregnant | British Vogue
“PREGNANT supermodel Claudia Schiffer has bared all for the cover of the June issue of Vogue in her native Germany.”
Since 2008, she has consistently ranked on the Forbes list of highest earning models.
This overstates her Forbes record. Forbes itself reported that Miranda Kerr dropped off its highest-paid-models ranking in 2011, and she was also absent from later annual lists such as 2017 and 2018.
Full reasoning
The claim says Kerr has “consistently ranked” on the Forbes highest-earning-models list since 2008. But Forbes’ own coverage shows that is not true.
- In Forbes’ 2011 “The World's Top-Earning Models,” the magazine explicitly says Candice Swanepoel and Lara Stone replaced Miranda Kerr and Doutzen Kroes, meaning Kerr was not on that year’s ranking.
- Forbes’ 2017 highest-paid-models list names the top 10 earners and even identifies several “near misses,” but Miranda Kerr is not included.
- Forbes’ 2018 highest-paid-models list again gives the full top 10, and Kerr is not on it either.
Because Forbes itself documents years in which Kerr did not rank, the statement that she has ranked consistently since 2008 is incorrect.
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- The World's Top-Earning Models | Forbes
“Swanepoel and Stone replaced Australian model Miranda Kerr and Dutch model Doutzen Kroes, who both took time off to have children.”
- Highest-Paid Models 2017: Kendall Jenner Takes Crown From Gisele With $22M Year | Forbes
The article lists the 2017 top earners and says: “Near misses include Joan Smalls, Taylor Hill, Candice Swanepoel and Lily Aldridge,” with no Miranda Kerr on the ranking.
- Highest-Paid Models 2018: Kendall Jenner Leads With $22.5 Million | Forbes
Forbes gives the full 2018 top 10—Kendall Jenner, Karlie Kloss, Chrissy Teigen, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Gisele Bündchen, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Joan Smalls and Doutzen Kroes—and Miranda Kerr is not listed.