Karlie Kloss

Karlie Elizabeth Kloss (born August 3, 1992) is an American supermodel and entrepreneur. She was a Victoria's Secret Angel from 2013 until 2015, when she enrolled as a student at New York University. By 2019, Kloss had appeared on 40 international Vogue covers. She has signed with several top modeling agencies throughout her career, including Elite Model Management, Next Management, IMG Models, and The Society. From 2019 to 2020, she was the host of the reality competition television series Project Runway.

Apart from modeling, Kloss works to provide reproductive rights for women and supports programs for women in STEM fields. She founded "Kode with Klossy", a nonprofit which provides free coding camps for girls and non-binary teens. In 2022, Kloss launched Gateway Coalition, to provide support to abortion clinics in the Midwestern United States. The following year, she acquired i-D magazine and became its chief executive officer (CEO).

Karlie Elizabeth Kloss was born on August 3, 1992, in Chicago, Illinois to Tracy Kloss (née Fares), a freelance art director, and Kurt Kloss, an emergency physician. She has three sisters: an elder sister, Kristine, and twin younger sisters, Kimberly and Kariann. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri, with her family in 1994. Kloss attended Webster Groves High School in Webster Groves, Missouri, where she was a cheerleader during her freshman year and graduated in 2011. In 2013, the family moved to Goshen, New York to support her modeling career. In September 2015, she enrolled in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.

Kloss was discovered at a local benefit runway show in 2005. In 2006, at the age of 14, she posed for the photographer David Leslie Anthony in a cover and editorial spread titled "Almost Famous," for the June issue of Scene Magazine. Elite Model Management Chicago forwarded her tear sheets to their New York office, which signed her.

One of Kloss's first modeling stints was a shoot for Abercrombie Kids by Bruce Weber. In January 2008, she left Elite Model Management and signed with Next Management. She walked 31 runways in New York Fashion Week, walking as an exclusive for Calvin Klein, closing for Marc Jacobs, opening for Carolina Herrera, and occupying both spots at Doo.Ri. She walked 20 shows in Milan and 13 in Paris for the fall 2008 collections, totaling 64 shows in the 2008 season.

Kloss found herself in a legal dispute when Elite Model Management, believing they were responsible for launching her career, sued Next Management for allegedly stealing her away and offering her 'improper compensation.' The case was eventually settled out of court. After four years of being represented by Next Management, Kloss signed with IMG Models, simultaneously leaving Mother Model Management in St. Louis. In 2009, Vogue Paris named her one of the "top 30 models of the 2000s."

Kloss has appeared in editorials for American and Korean W, American Elle, Allure, i-D, French and Japanese Numéro, Vanity Fair, Dazed & Confused; and American, Australian, Italian, French, British, Korean, German, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Portuguese, Teen, and Latin American editions of Vogue magazine. She notably appeared on 12 international Vogue covers, including Vogue Italia, in a five-year span. She appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue alongside Chanel Iman and Ali Michael in February 2008 and by herself in May 2010.

Kloss made her first venture into television when she appeared in the Gossip Girl episode "Belles de Jour" as herself. She became a muse for fashion designer John Galliano and has appeared in his and Dior's campaigns. She opened both the Christian Dior Haute Couture and Dior Resort shows in the Spring/Summer 2010 season. In Spring/Summer 2011, she opened ten shows and closed eight.

In 2012, Kloss collaborated with the restaurant chain Momofuku Milk Bar to create 'Karlie's Kookies,' a special recipe sold at DKNY Soho during Fashion's Night Out in New York City; its proceeds went to FEED Projects where ten meals were donated for every tin of cookies sold. She also led a group of investors in purchasing the fashion magazine W in 2020. That year, Kloss was named a trustee of Barnard College for a four-year term. In November 2023, she acquired British fashion magazine i-D from Vice Media Group and became its CEO. She is also an investor in the probiotics company Seed. In March 2024, she and her husband Joshua Kushner revived Life magazine for print and digital distribution through Bedford Media in partnership with Dotdash Meredith.

Kloss is also a computer programmer. She studied Ruby on Rails and other web development technologies at Flatiron School in 2014. She later narrated the season 2 episode "Coding" on the Netflix and Vox Media television show Explained in October 2019.

In April 2015, Kloss launched Kode With Klossy, an initiative for teaching girls about computer science, with support from Estée Lauder. She partnered with Flatiron School and Code.org to offer an annual scholarship for young girls interested in computer science and software engineering as part of the initiative. The same year, Kode With Klossy launched its first free two-week summer coding camp for girls aged 13–18. The camp taught the basics of programming languages such as Ruby, JavaScript, and Swift; program participants built fully functional mobile apps or websites with the camp. By 2025, the organization had built a community of almost 11,000 young people in over 100 countries. In December 2025, Kloss announced her debut picture book titled Spaghetti Code: A Story About Problem-Solving, Pasta, and the Power of Big Ideas; the book is inspired by her Kode with Klossy initiative.

In her twenties, Kloss served as a care escort for Planned Parenthood. She founded the Gateway Coalition in 2022 to support Midwestern abortion clinics. In 2024, Kloss worked with Missourians for Constitutional Freedom to pass Amendment 3 and enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Kloss authored an op-ed on the topic in The Washington Post, and in support of Florida's Amendment 4 in the Miami Herald.

Kloss began dating the businessman and investor Joshua Kushner in 2012. The couple became engaged in July 2018, a month after she converted to Judaism, Kushner's religion, becoming a giyoret. The couple married on October 18, 2018, in upstate New York. In June 2019, they held a second wedding celebration in Wyoming. They have two sons, born in March 2021 and July 2023, and a daughter, born in September 2025.

Kloss is related by marriage to Ivanka Trump, the wife of Kushner's elder brother Jared. She has stated that she finds the Trump family connection "frustrating [...] that the spotlight is always shifted away from [her] career toward [her] relationship". In December 2020, Kloss and Kushner purchased a home in Miami, Florida, for $23.5 million. The pair also bought a 7,200-square-foot (670 m2) penthouse in the Puck Building in Manhattan for $35 million in 2021, and paid $29.5 million for the Wave House in Malibu, California, in August 2024.