Miranda Kerr NAKED

To Kerr, with Love

Kerr was born in Sydney, but raised in the small town of Gunnedah, New South Wales. In an exclusive interview, Kerr states she is of predominantly English descent with some Scottish and a little bit of French, countering the untrue rumours that she had some Filipino heritage. During her childhood, Kerr "raced motorbikes and rode horses on her grandmother's farm." She describes her early life in the Australian countryside as "very grounding ... there wasn't any pretentiousness and no one really cared what you were wearing. You could just be you."

Dolly magazine At age 13, Kerr entered and won the 1997 annual Dolly Magazine/Impulse Model Competition. She was flown to Sydney a week before her 14th birthday to shoot for the magazine. Upon Kerr's win, local media expressed "concerned outrage" at her young age. Some media outlets claimed her Dolly shoot (including images of a 14-year-old Kerr in bathing suits) constituted a form of child pornography. Of the press, Kerr said: "In the media at the time they were trying to cling on to anything remotely to do with pedophilia. Dolly is a magazine for teenage girls, not for old men. And I was fully clothed! Doing a winter shoot! They just made something out of nothing."

All we know is she is 26 now . . .

AND THIS SHOOT IS REALLY QUITE LOVELY, IF WE SAY SO OURSELVES!