Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere are stepping into a very familiar spotlight, appearing together on the cover of Vogue decades after their famous parents did the same.
Kaia’s mother, supermodel Cindy Crawford, was married to Homer’s father, Hollywood star Richard Gere, from 1991 to 1995, during a period when both were among the most recognizable figures in entertainment and fashion. Crawford and Gere appeared together on the cover of Vogue in November 1992.
Following their split, Crawford, 60, went on to marry businessman Rande Gerber, 64. The couple later welcomed daughter Kaia and son Presley, who is now 27.
Gere, 76, became a father to Homer with his second ex-wife, Carey Lowell, 65, the former Bond girl to whom he was married from 2002 until 2016.
The connection has now come full circle professionally, with TV writer and producer Ryan Murphy bringing Kaia and Homer together in the cast of his new series The Shards, co-created with celebrated novelist Bret Easton Ellis.
In a new cover interview with Vogue, Kaia, 24, and Homer, 26, opened up about how they dealt with the obvious link between them: their parents’ high-profile marriage and eventual divorce.
Homer said the two first crossed paths at a Los Angeles bar, where he chose to acknowledge the situation directly, asking whether they should “address the fact that our parents were married.” According to the interview, Kaia gave a relaxed reply — “Yeah, cool” — and that was the end of it.
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Gere and Crawford 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
Nearly 34 four years ago, Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere fronted the magazine’s November 1992 issue (pictured)
The first meeting between Homer and Kaia came after they were tapped for The Shards, when they met with some of their co-stars at Ye Rustic Inn, a nightspot in Los Feliz, LA, that has stood for more than 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 addressedhis casting opposite 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 looks the spitting image of her mother, enhanced by photos of her billowing dark hair and mega-watt smile.
Meanwhile, Homer wore blue jeans with a dress shirt, blazer and tie, echoing the distinctly 1990s casual glamour of his father.
In their new shoot, Kaia looks the spitting image of her mother, enhanced by photos of her billowing dark hair and mega-watt smile
Homer also addressedhis casting opposite Kaia in The Shards, confessing frankly: ‘Maybe it seems too on the nose’
Homer and Kaia first met at Ye Rustic Inn, a nightspot in Los Feliz, LA that has stood for over half a century
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.
Since their split, Crawford admitted Gere had become ‘like a stranger’ to her, but she 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 claimed to Globe: ‘They’re dropping their defenses and playing nice, and they’re doing it for the kids.’
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 aluminium 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… 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, ten years later, that they were totally right.’
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; pictured 1991
Crawford, 60, later achieved more lasting matrimony with businessman Rande Gerber, 64, and the pair welcomed Kaia, 24, and a son called Presley, 27 (seen in May)
Meanwhile Gere, 76, welcomed Homer, 26, with his second ex-wife Carey Lowell, 65, a onetime Bond girl he was married to from 2002 until 2016. Pictured: Gere and Lowell in 2011
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 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’s 2023 novel of the same name, a roman à 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.
