Miranda Kerr has a new interview in New Beauty, mostly to promote her KORA Organics beauty/skincare line. The interviewer mentions that Miranda was more involved with “wellness” before Gwyneth Paltrow, and it just reminded me that Miranda and Gwyneth are so much alike. But in Gwyneth’s case, I feel like she’s more willful in her pseudoscience, if that makes any sense. Like, Miranda genuinely believes in crystals and energies and the power of good thoughts. Gwyneth might genuinely believe in that stuff too, but mostly I think Gwyneth just throws nonsense at the wall to see what sticks and then finds a way to profit from it. Anyway, this Kerr interview starts off in a hilarious way, with Miranda insulting her now-husband Evan Spiegel. Some highlights:
Her first impression of Evan Spiegel: “I thought, ‘Oh, this guy is cute. But, ‘Wow, his skin is flaky!’ I was like, ‘Why don’t you try this,’ and I gave him the Noni Glow Face Oil ($68). Ever since, he hasn’t stopped using it! He always says, ‘Oh my God, Miranda, this is the only product that has helped my dry skin.’ Now, he won’t go anywhere without it.”
Miranda on being the original Goop: “It’s funny because I remember giving Gwyneth the products when I had launched in 2009. At the time, she was talking about how she just started this website called goop, and I was like, ‘Oh! That sounds right up my alley.’ Now our products are sold on her site, so it’s really come full circle. I know the self-tanner is flying off the shelves because she texted me recently and said, ‘This tanning lotion is incredible. I can’t believe the sales. It’s crazy!’
The changing conversations on wellness: “I think it’s really exciting that people are becoming much more educated and aware of the benefits of health and wellness. They’re looking for those different self-care avenues and practices that will uplift them and complement their lifestyles. There are so many different tools out there that can work, but everyone is different. Somebody’s medicine might be somebody else’s poison…. it’s important to find what supports you and your wellness and explore that further….I’ve always said that I try to be 80-percent healthy and 20-percent indulgent across all areas—not just in what I eat, but in general. Even my character is 80-percent good girl and 20-percent naughty. I think it’s important to not put pressure on yourself to be super strict about anything. Balance is important.
How she eats: “It’s the same way when I eat. I love to eat healthy, but I also love to indulge. I eat out sometimes and it’s not organic. If I go to a friend’s house, I’m not going to ask, ‘Is it organic?’ I’m going to enjoy the food they prepared for me with love. I’m not going to be crazy.
Flynn is involved too: “He did a project at school about healthy food and said something like, ‘I’m blessed to be able to eat healthy, organic food.’ Then he picked up a vegetable and asked if it was organic. I told him, ‘Yes, Flynn, we grew it in our backyard, it’s organic.’ He’s so inquisitive and curious. He loves watching me cook, and he also loves yoga. When he was in my belly, I would do yoga every day, so he has a deep connection with it—we still do yoga together at least once a week. He’s also very aware of his environment. He loves being outdoors, and he’s really conscious of things like turning off the water when he’s brushing his teeth, and taking a quick shower. He also picks up trash when he sees it. I think teaching children at a young age to do all of these little things like turning the tap off, or turning the lights off, or bringing the reusable bag to the supermarket, are things everyone can do. They make a big difference.
One of her wellness musts: “I even have something installed in my Malibu house to turn out all the power while we sleep. It’s basically a button that turns all the power off, except for the fridge and security cameras, in the nighttime. So when you go to sleep, you don’t have any Wi-Fi or electricity in the house at all.
That button that turns the power out while they sleep… that’s fascinating to me. So she doesn’t have an alarm clock or something by the bed which is plugged in? What about the water heater for the shower in the morning? So many questions. As for Evan’s dry skin… I feel like she probably shouldn’t share that, but it was all part of a longer testimonial she was making on his behalf. Miranda says repeatedly that Evan is obsessed with his KORA Organics products and he swears by them.
This pissed me off: “There are so many different tools out there that can work, but everyone is different. Somebody’s medicine might be somebody else’s poison.” Yeah, I get that she’s trying to make an argument for less Western medicine, but much like Gwyneth’s reliance on pseudoscience, I find it disturbing when people equate “medicine” with “poison.” It’s extremely unhelpful.
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“It’s the same way when I eat. I love to eat healthy, but I also love to indulge. I eat out sometimes and it’s not organic. If I go to a friend’s house, I’m not going to ask, ‘Is it organic?’ I’m going to enjoy the food they prepared for me with love. I’m not going to be crazy.
Bless you, Ms Kerr. I can get with people who have various diets due to various needs, but when people are chiding me because my food isn’t organic (I do try for humane eggs for instance, but post referendum, everything’s expensive over here) it’s aggravating.
It sounds like she’s doing the exact opposite of chiding people for not having organic food. She buys and grows organic, but eats non-organic stuff when she’s out of her house.
@Kebbie, yeah, which is why I respect her stance. I’ve been around too many orthorexias in the last few years.
My bad, I thought your “bless you” was sarcastic lol I’m from the south 🤦♀️
Bless her heart. Her indulgence is eating a food without asking if it’s organic? LOL.
Aren’t her security cameras using WiFi? It sounds like an expensive, useless button.
Most security cameras use DVR
I can’t imagine that the cameras are all hardlined to the DVR. I assume they’re connecting to the DVR through WiFi.
ETA: I just looked at my DVR and there are enough cords to cameras, so maybe they don’t use WiFi. I assumed they did.
This whole interview sounds like a bad advertisement
Most if all her interviews (that I’ve come across anyway) are about Kora. She doesn’t pretend she’s not selling it.
I do the 80/20 thing as well (ok some days it’s more like 50/50) and it really works for me. Yes, we should all try and eat healthy organic food 100% of the time but that is completely unrealistic. It takes the pressure off to be “perfect.” So of all the things she’s selling, this one I buy.
Do you think maybe she meant something about
Sola Dosis Facit Venenum (I’m not educated in Latin, I know like 3 phrases and mostly only from studying John Wick’s tattoos)
It means ‘the dose makes the poison’ –
This old time dr dude Paracelsus from Switzerland is credited for lots of medical sh-t, like bringing chemicals/minerals never used b4 and poisonous to use as medicine- he said, “All things are poison, and nothing is w/o poison, the dose alone makes it so a thing is not poison.”
I had to memorize this for flipping beauty school; it’s to hammer in the concept of overexposure to any/all chemicals-
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She must be magic to men, Snapchat kid proposed to her after that disastrous flaky skin first meet- wow
“Wow, his skin is flaky!”
But his bank account… flawless!
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This was exactly my first thought too lol
These women, born with a toddler face, nice boobs and a tall, lean body work hard at maintaining it and spend their time spewing banalities about snake oil treatments.
At least she’s showing creativity: she talks about their first date (gossip!), his skin (a woman’s perspective!) and her routines and chilled out attitude (I will not ALWAYS eat organic!).
Mrs Business!
“I thought, ‘Oh, this guy is cute. But, ‘Wow, his skin is flaky!’ I was like, ‘Why don’t you try this,’ and I gave him the Noni Glow Face Oil ($68). Ever since, he hasn’t stopped using it! He always says, ‘Oh my God, Miranda, this is the only product that has helped my dry skin.’ Now, he won’t go anywhere without it.”
Toe curling cringe. Can you imagine this conversation “Oh. My. God. Miranda!”
his hair is confounding
Organic has such good advertising… she and a lot of people in this thread don’t actually seem to know what it even means. 🤦🏼♀️
There is a such thing as a tankless water heater. It heats the water on-demand, instantly, in unlimited amounts as needed.
An example of one person’s medicine being another’s poison for me is Zyrtec. It gives me terrible nightmares. After two-weeks on it I start getting unbearable headaches in the area where my head/spine join.
you don’t need alarm clocks anymore with cell phones
I tried her kora organics sample kit—I wasn’t impressed.
For years I have unplugged my microwave once I’ve finished using it. It’s only on during use. I would love to have a button that shuts everything off. My printer, tv, lights and laptop don’t need to be plugged in overnight. Plugged in electronics use 75% of power when not in use.
I side-eye her for the Jho Low thing but she’s definitely much more genuine than Goop or Jessica Alba. And this story about her husband, who is most definitely NOT cute, is a perfect marketing soundbite! Goop is just a total flake whilst Jessica Alba is laughably lame in her attempts in business-school speak to sell herself as a serious CEO. Check out some of her stupid (recent) quotes about how she thinks outside the box and focuses on the consumer experience. So pedestrian and cliche, like someone who DIDN’T go to business school scripted it for her! Also she boasted about making staff cry because she’s such a tough and powerful businesswoman! What a complete idiot!
Whereas Miranda grew up with this organic, natural lifestyle stuff – her grandmother and mother are both into this. They have a light touch and aren’t super commercial about the less provable stuff, but it’s part of the conversation when she’s explaining (i.e., branding) herself. Miranda kind of just talks about her lifestyle and how she uses her products rather than pretending she’s a powerful business owner. I find that marketing approach much more appealing, but I was going to get around to trying her products in any case. Jessica Alba should take some lessons from Miranda and sell her products from the heart like she did at the start rather than pretending she turned into a business wizard overnight and pretending she doesn’t have real numbers and business people doing the business and operations stuff. Actually why Alba’s adopted that approach confuses me as there’s absolutely no benefit to it; no one buys that image. I think the reason is she was pleasantly surprised at the success, got on Forbes, and after years of playing the gorgeous love interest in movies, find an avenue to take herself seriously. In other words, her ego got the better of her.
…wow,,,her face is greasy 😛