‘Nepo babies’ Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere channeled their world-famous parents as they posed together for his first big interview.
Kaia’s mother Cindy Crawford was married to Homer’s father Richard Gere from 1991 to 1995 when they were at the height of their stardom.
Crawford, 60, later achieved more lasting matrimony with businessman Rande Gerber, 64, and the pair welcomed Kaia, 24, and a son called Presley, 27. Meanwhile Gere, 76, had Homer, 26, by his second ex-wife Carey Lowell, 65, a onetime Bond girl he was married to from 2002 until 2016.
Ryan Murphy has united Homer and Kaia for the cast of his new show The Shards, which he co-created with acclaimed novelist Bret Easton Ellis.
Now, Kaia and Homer have revealed how they approached the elephant in the room of their parents’ doomed romance, in a cover interview for Vogue.
Homer shared that when the pair first met socially at a Los Angeles watering hole, he bluntly asked if they should ‘address the fact that our parents were married,’ and she responded: ‘Yeah. Cool,’ at which point they let the subject drop.
The Daily Mail has contacted Gere and Crawford’s representatives for comment.
‘Nepo babies’ Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere were the channeled their world-famous, once-married parents as they posed together
Kaia’s mother Cindy Crawford was married to Homer’s father Richard Gere from 1991 to 1995, when they were at the height of their stardom; pictured at the 1993 Oscars
Steven Meisel photographed Homer and Cindy for Vogue nearly 34 four years after Crawford and Gere fronted the magazine’s November 1992 issue (pictured)
When he and Kaia were tapped for The Shards, they met with some of their co-stars at Ye Rustic Inn, a Los Feliz nightspot that has stood for over half a century.
‘That’s Kaia’s spot. It’s, like, her chill I’m-gonna-go-have-a-beer-and-smoke-a-cig-outside spot,’ Homer recalled in the September issue of Vogue.
‘Twenty minutes into knowing each other, I was like: “Should we just acknowledge the fact that our parents were married?” She was like: “Yeah. Cool.” And that was it.’
Homer also addressed the legacy stunt casting of his being placed alongside Kaia in The Shards, confessing frankly: ‘Maybe it seems too on the nose.’
Steven Meisel photographed Homer and Cindy for Vogue nearly 34 years after Crawford and Gere fronted the magazine’s November 1992 issue.
In their new shoot, Kaia’s mounting resemblance to her mother began to verge on the uncanny, enhanced by photos of her billowing dark hair and megawatt smile.
Meanwhile, Homer wore blue jeans with a dress shirt, blazer and tie, echoing the distinctly 1990s air of casual glamour that his father had so smolderingly typified.
Crawford and Gere’s Vogue cover was shot by the legendary Herb Ritts, at whose home the couple were first introduced during a barbecue in the late 1980s.
In their new shoot, Kaia’s mounting resemblance to her mother began to verge on the uncanny, enhanced by photos of her billowing dark hair
Homer also addressed the legacy stunt casting of his being placed alongside Kaia in The Shards, confessing frankly: ‘Maybe it seems too on the nose’
When he and Kaia were hired for The Shards, they met with some of their co-stars at Ye Rustic Inn, a Los Feliz nightspot that has stood for over half a century
Since their split, Crawford has admitted Gere felt ‘like a stranger’ to her but largely avoided discussing the breakdown of their relationship, writing in her memoir that the subject was ‘not something I want to share’ as ‘I wanted to be respectful.’
However a source has now claimed: ‘They’re dropping their defenses and playing nice and they’re doing it for the kids,’ via Globe.
When they first met, Crawford was 22 and her modeling career was on the ascent, while Gere was 37 and had already established himself as an A-list film star with releases like American Gigolo and An Officer and a Gentleman.
‘In the beginning of a relationship, when you’re a young woman, you’re like: “You like baseball? I like baseball. Oh, you’re really into Tibetan Buddhism? I might be into that. I’ll try that,”‘ she recalled in the docuseries The Super Models.
In 1991, the year after he co-starred with Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, Gere eloped with Crawford to Las Vegas, where they sealed their union with aluminum foil rings.
Their marriage went up in flames in 1995, and although Crawford has since described their relationship as a ‘great chapter in my life,’ she also candidly reflected that their age gap had opened a gulf between their sensibilities.
‘I think a lot of what happened with Richard and I was that I was still 22 and at 22 – as a young woman – I was kind of still figuring out who I was and what I wanted to be and he was already 37,’ she told Oprah Winfrey in a 2013 interview on Master Class.
‘So in some ways, he knew that I was still growing and changing. I just didn’t want to hear it from him because at 22 you think you know everything. You think you’re already formed. And then you realize, 10 years later, that they were totally right.’
Kaia’s mother Cindy Crawford was briefly married to Homer’s father Richard Gere when the couple were at the height of their fame in the 1990s; pictured 1991
In 1998 Crawford exchanged vows with Rande Gerber, who later became known for co-founding Casamigos with George Clooney and businessman Mike Meldman.
The pair remain married to this day, and their daughter has followed in her mother’s footsteps to forge a life in the public eye as a model and actress.
Gere is now on his third attempt at marriage, this time to Spanish publicist Alejandra Silva, who at the age of 43 is 33 years her husband’s junior.
Kaia is currently in a relationship with yet another ‘nepo baby,’ Lewis Pullman, the dashing son of Sleepless in Seattle actor Bill Pullman.
Meanwhile Homer, who recently acted with Sydney Sweeney on Euphoria, has kept a veil of privacy drawn over the subject of his own love life.
Homer and Kaia’s new show The Shards is based on Bret Easton Ellis’ 2023 novel of the same name, a roman a clef about his upscale drug-suffused prep school.
With a cast that includes Igby Rigney as Ellis and Evan Rachel Wood in a supporting role, the series premiered on both FX and Hulu on August 5.
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