Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere Cover Vogue 34 Years After Their Famous Parents

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Way back in 1992, Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere appeared together on the cover of American Vogue. At the time, the pair was a year into their marriage and Gere was the first man ever to grace America’s most coveted magazine cover.

Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere (Vogue, November 1992)

Fast forward nearly 34 years and the pair’s children — Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere — have stepped into their famous parents’ shoes with their own American Vogue cover in promotion of their new FX/Hulu limited series The Shards.

Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere (Steven Meisel for Vogue)

Co-created by Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, based on the latter’s 2023 book of the same name, The Shards follows a group of wealthy high schoolers as they make their way through a senior year full of parties, drugs, sex, and murder. Gerber plays class president and all around golden girl, Susan Reynolds, and Gere is the dark and mysterious newcomer, Robert Mallory, who may or may not have a thing for her.

It’s the kind of casting the Hollywood PR machine dreams about: two nepo babies playing out a hightened and even more glamorous version of the relationship their super famous parents engaged in years earlier IRL.

“Maybe it seems too on the nose,” says Homer Gere in the accompanying interview with Vogue’s Rob Haskell. He remembers meeting Gerber for the first time, along with a few other Shards cast members, at Ye Rustic Inn in Los Feliz. “That’s Kaia’s spot. It’s, like, her chill I’m-gonna-go-have-a-beer-and-smoke-a-cig-outside spot. 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.”

Kaia Gerber and Homer Gere (Steven Meisel for Vogue)

According to Gere, he initially rejected the idea of following his parents into acting. “I was not a theater kid at all,” he says. “Not. At. All. I was a jock. I mean, I think I was a sensitive jock! But I had grown up my entire childhood with people asking, ‘Are you gonna be an actor when you’re older?’ And I was like, ‘Fuck no.’ I was good in school, and I had no pressure from my parents. Acting was always over there; it was some other thing that other people did. There are a million happy lives that you can live, you know? And it’s a complicated life. I think I knew that firsthand.”

Homer Gere (Steven Meisel for Vogue)

As for the nepo baby-ness of it all, Gerber has this to say: “I’ve only ever been a nepo baby, and I’ve only ever benefited in my career from it. But I also find myself doing it to other nepo babies, thinking, like, Okay, show me why you deserve this job. I said to Homer—because the concept is daunting to him, having lived as an adult so far without that perception, whereas I sort of went through it when I wasn’t fully sentient—I said to him, ‘Homer, unfortunately with this show, it’s not like you’re just any unknown actor and people will judge you as an unknown actor. But what that’s done for me is make me want to work harder.’”

Kaia Gerber (Steven Meisel for Vogue)

Elsewhere in the interview Gerber opens up about her history with disordered eating, saying: “People have always commented on my body, which is hard because I’m not always ready to comment on my own body, you know? I’ve had disordered eating in my life. People are like, ‘You look terrible,’ and it doesn’t exactly make you go, ‘Oh, good. Let me get over this mental illness then!’ Negativity has never saved someone’s life.”

Check out the full story on Vogue.com.

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