I swear, I sometimes feel like Miranda Kerr is “advertising” with some of her magazine editorials and social media photos. Not “advertising” the way Lindsay Lohan “advertises,” but there does seem to be something sleazy about Miranda these days (and it’s not just this Terry Richardson shoot). Either she’s with Leonardo DiCaprio, or she’s banging a recently separated Aussie billionaire James Packer. I suspect that Leo was a quick rebound, but when Miranda saw that she could hook a bigger fish, she went for Packer. Which makes this Harper’s Bazaar Australia cover sort of funny and passive-aggressive, right? “Meet the Packer Dynasty’s Glamorous New Face”??? LOL. Anyway, some highlights from the magazine:
They announced their split in October, after three years of marriage. But while many celebrity couples fail to maintain a friendship after ending their relationship, Miranda Kerr is determined to stay on good terms with her estranged husband Orlando Bloom.
Speaking about their split for the first time, Miranda, who is mother to two-year-old son Flynn with Orlando, insisted that she and the Lords Of The Rings actor will always love each other.
She told Harper’s Bazaar Australia magazine: ‘It’s difficult for anyone to go through a separation, whether it’s on a public scale or not. It was important for us long-term to preserve our friendship and the dynamic of being loving parents to Flynn so we dealt with everything openly and honestly. We respect each other and with respect comes understanding. When there’s understanding, I guess everything is a little more harmonious. We’re still very big parts of each other’s lives. There’s no reason for us to be anything but a united front. We still love and care for each other deeply.’
Miranda added that the main priority for both her and Orlando is the wellbeing of their little boy.
She said: ‘Flynn is the most important thing in both our lives. And because we share that bond, we both feel it’s important to be united.’The 30-year-old model opened up about her marriage split as she posed for a stunning new shoot in Harper’s Bazaar. Miranda is seen going topless, wearing just a pencil skirt and netted hat as she poses for the inside shot, before changing into a plunging black tuxedo cape and not much else for the cover of the publication.
The Australian beauty also revealed that her split from Orlando means she won’t be taking a trip Down Under for the festive season this year, because she needs to look after Flynn while her actor ex works hard on his Broadway play Romeo & Juliet.
She said: ‘I’m not coming home to Australia for summer because Orlando is working six days a week starring in Romeo and Juliet on Broadway. And it’s not fair to take Flynn and go without him. We’re trying to do our best to support each other.’
Does anyone else find it difficult to buy Miranda’s New Agey stuff these days? It’s a combination of her marriage ending, her allegedly wandering biscuit, and that Photoshop controversy last month. I just believe she’s way more superficial and less New Agey lately. That being said, I do think Orlando and Miranda are trying hard to co-parent and be strong for Flynn, and that’s nice. Orly adores his son and I hope that whatever they work out in their divorce, Orly gets to spend a lot of time with Flynn.
Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar Australia.
I hope everything works out for the sake of that adorable little Flynn but I cannot take her anymore.
ITA but I am so off her since the photoshop crap. I thought that was just super bizarre and spoke to some major insecurity. I don’t buy anything she says-it’s all for show.
shhhh Miranda shhhh… can you NOT… Thank You.
She is like that girl in high school who pretended to be sweet and innocent so she could look like a sex kitten to guys.
Totally! I hated those goody-goody closet-sluts! Lol
Wow. “Closet sluts”? REALLY?
Her hair looks nice. Both Orlando and Miranda seem like great parents.
You obviously do not care for and love each other deeply enough to be in marriage, so save the sugary cover up talk for the mirror, no one really cares.
I don’t think divorce is always that black and white. They might not work well as a married couple but they could be really great friends and co-parents. And when there’s a child involved, it really is great if the parents can still care about each other in a platonic way.
That is why I said “Deeply enough to be in a marriage”.
Amen!
Dani2, I agree. My ex-husband and I were married for 5 years (and have a teenage son, who my ex adopted when my son was 6) before we just realized we were not at all in love with each other. We tried to recapture it, tried to be married and stick it out without being in love for several years, but the fact of it was that over the years our relationship evolved into one where we were best friends…completely platonic. It’s been 4 years since our divorce now and we chat almost daily, both as friends and co-parents. It wasn’t that we didn’t “love each other deeply enough to be in a marriage,” it was that I wanted him to be happy and find his mate and he wanted the same for me. I am so, so very happily remarried now and we are all friends. My ex and I make wonderful friends, wonderful co-parents, and we still very much consider each other family and always will. And every single word I wrote here is absolutely genuine. We didn’t fight as a married couple, didn’t have drama…but when you realize that if you stay married to your platonic best friend you will never find deep, lasting love (of the type that leads to marriage and/or partnership and a life together..or the desire to be physical, which we didn’t have for the last 4 years of our relationship…even had separate bedrooms for a few years at the end) you realize that something is always going to be missing if you stay. The split was a little sad, but mutual, amicable, and we support each other through thick and thin and always will. I would do anything for him. So I do believe her when she says they are family, love each other, etc. Last year my ex joined my family (me, our son, my husband, and stepson) for the holidays and it was actually very nice. Not all marriages end in animosity, and not all marriages end because people were too weak to work on it. Granted, we made it well past the 2 year mark (having been together for some time before we got married), but that’s not really the point.
themummy, kudos to you and your family. I aspire to be in your situation some day, having just recently separated from my partner and stories like yours are wonderful to hear.
well said Eliza, I was thinking the same thing
Eliza, I hope your love life is always so black and white.
Superficial or shallow probably says it.
I thought r&j was ending early?
G*d she grates…
Always the same angle. Maybe she’s not an ambiturner.
LOL!
Packer Dynasty’s glamorous new face? Lmao! Do you think she is smart enough to have noticed that? Because that really puts her in a bad light; posing without her top on for Terry Richardson while talking about her ex and even HB is pretty much saying she moved on to the billionaire.
She’s tactless, IMO.
I feel like she’s promoting her separation by doing all these interviews and it says more about her than her actual words.
How is she promoting separation? If anything she’s saying it’s possible to go through a divorce and put any children involved first.
She’s crass and over exposed and there’s always an undercurrent of self-promotion to everything she does but I think it’s nice to see an amicable separation for once.
She’s promoting HER separation, not separation in general. And I agree.
Apologies! I read that wrong. Missed the ‘her’ in the separation part.
If interviewers as her about it is she supposed to refuse to answer? She doesn’t get to set the agenda for interviews. She can put certain topics off limits, sure, but why should she on this? People obviously care–there’s tons of gossip about her and them and much of it make her (and him to a degree) look bad. Why shouldn’t be take the opportunity to tell how it actually is from her point of view? I don’t blame any celebrity for answering questions they are asked. It’s not like she brings it up. Interviews don’t work like that.
Before they do interviews they do decide what they can and cannot ask about. Celebrities refuse all the time to talk about their private life and if the interviewer asks about it anyway they can refuse to answer. If you believe any different you clearly don’t know enough about the business. The truth is her marriage to Bloom and their son is all she has to talk about, she lost all her big campaigns, she has nothing to promote but here she is having interviews with magazines. How many models do that exactly? At least when Bloom was asked about her it was in combination of promoting either the Hobbit, his Broadway play or Zulu and he talked about the separation a week after it happened not 6 weeks when the media-storm died down. And he didn’t talk to magazines just to talk about her.
Littlewood–you have a great point. What is she being interviewed for? I could see if she was just posing, she IS a model–but why interview her? She has nothing to promote–she’s not the face of anything besides those Korra products (which I hear, based on reviews, are CRAP products), she doesn’t have a major campaign coming up…so all she’s doing is capitulating on a divorce.
Exactly Virgilia, models do editorials, not campaigns. You don’t see Adriana Lima doing interviews about her private life, even when she’s promoting VS. She’s making money off of her divorce while posing without her top on, I wonder what Flynn would think when he grows up?
She grates on the nerves, she’s like an overly- sweetened slim latte that gives you a sugar headache of regret. BUT I have to respect that she and Orlando are making an effort to raise their child together and retain respect for each other. My aunt and uncle did that for many years, had an amicable and respectful divorce so that they could still coparent. Very sadly, when my uncle got serious in a relationship ten years after the divorce, my aunt lost her s**t and basically destroyed the possibility of coparenting any longer. Miranda is talking like this will be an easy process but sadly in my experience you can try as hard as possible and you just never know. Poor little kid.
That’s sad. I’m currently in a similar situation, my 11 year relationship ended four months ago and we have a toddler together. So far it’s been very amicable and respectful to make things as easy on our son as possible, we even put up the Christmas decorations together as my son specifically asked that both ‘mommy and daddy’ do it. It’s been easy enough, we’ve become friends but there hasn’t been a new partner introduced yet. It’s something I think about a lot.
Sorry to hear about your breakup Miffy, but I’m glad you’re still able to keep it friendly.
It sounds like you’re handling it like a class act, and your son is lucky to have you 🙂
Thank you, IzzyB. That’s so lovely to read after a bit of a rough day 🙂
I too hope for Flynn’s sake he has a peaceful and drama free transition during and after the divorce. Last thing I hate to see is an innocent child stuck between two adults who act like immature children by mudslinging each other. I can’t stand her anymore either, I think its pretty obvious why she’s dating that billionnaire Packer, it ain’t the looks.
Maybe she’s doing some damage control to her image as it was her behaviour and attitude that got her sacked from some lucrative contracts she had in place.
My 12 year old daughter saw a mag cover splicing photos of James Packer and Miranda together and asked why she is dating him (he isn’t the most good-looking man). To my reply that James is a billionaire she replied “oh that figures, she’s just in it for the money”. Bingo. I just don’t “buy” these two as a couple.
She has the most youthful looking face. She will be able to model forever!