Independent Spirit

Stepping away from the coat tails of his supermodel mother, Presley Gerber is poised to carve a name for himself.

- Kames Narayanan

PRESLEY GERBER does not need the famous last name of his supermodel mother Cindy Crawford to prove his stellar pedigree. The 19-year-old, who is the elder of two children, is a spitting image of Crawford. A clear winner in the genetic lottery, Gerber takes after his mother’s distinguishable features: high and defined cheekbones that segue into a chiseled jawline, a strong oblong facial structure softened by alluring brown, almond-shaped eyes and her distinctive beauty mark that sits above the lip.

By default, Gerber ticks off all the requisites of a model. With these striking good looks followed an implicit expectation that it was but a matter of time before he joined the line-up of second generation supermodel children who go on to follow in the footsteps of their famous parents. These presumptions, however, deviated from the career path Gerber was initially set on carving out for himself. He had little idea about the supermodel status of his mother, much less, any intention of going down the same career trajectory.

“When someone like that is your mom, you don’t really notice because that’s the only thing that you have really seen, so I never really understood that she was famous,” recalls Gerber.

“I definitely had no idea I was going to model. I knew I wanted to start a business. I thought I was going to go to college till about senior year [in high school] and then I started modelling. It introduced me to a whole new world and I’m kind of taking it from there,” he continues.