It turns out that being a supermodel has some perks in the mom department. Namely, your kids actually think you’re cool (when will our kids get the memo that we are cool too?!). Kate Moss and her daughter Lila Moss, 21, appeared on the December cover of British Vogue, published online Thursday, and the model opened up about the moment she realized how cool her mom is.
Lila’s Dad Help Her Realize Her Mom Is ‘Pretty Cool’
Lila, who looks identical to mom Kate in matching white sweaters and hats for the cover, shared that her mom “always kept her work life separate from our home life,” so she didn’t realize how famous her mom was until later. After starting school, Lila began to understand her mom is a celebrity.
“When I started school, I began to realise how fascinated people were by ‘Kate Moss, the supermodel’, but to me, she was still just the person who wouldn’t let me use my phone at the dinner table and made me come home from parties in Notting Hill earlier than any of my friends,” she told British Vogue. Yup, sounds like any other mom!
Finally, when Lila was a teen, she realized that her mom was “pretty cool” thanks to her dad Jefferson Hack.
“It’s only at, like, 15 or 16 that I began to realise she might actually be pretty cool,” Lila continued. “I’d started to get interested in art and design, and my dad said to me, ‘You do realise that your mum has a lot of pieces by some of these artists you love in your house, right? Marc Quinn, Francis Bacon, Damien Hirst…’” Yeah, if your teen doesn’t think their mom is cool after that, there’s no hope for any of us!
Kate Shared How She Kept Modeling & Motherhood Separate
Kate told British Vogue about how motherhood changed her. “I kept working after I had Lila, of course, but I shifted most of my jobs to the UK, and kept her away from the craziness of sets and backstage and everything,” she told the outlet. (This definitely explains why Lila was so clueless about her mom’s celebrity status). “It didn’t take long to realise she wanted mummy to be mummy, not a model in a wig.”
“She’s still traumatised by the wigs, you know – if I put one on, she’s immediately like, ‘Take it off, take it off!’” she added.
Lila Now Has ‘Rules’ for Her Mom
Now that Lila’s grown up, her relationship with her mom has shifted a bit. “There were still rules in our house – always say please and thank you; never go out with wet hair or you’ll catch a cold – even if I wasn’t that strict,” Kate told British Vogue. “Now that she’s 21, Lila’s the one setting rules for me: wear SPF50; quit smoking …”
Kate shared that even though her daughter has “flown the nest” and has her own place in downtown New York, she still thinks of Lila as “so young.” “I feel like I’d already lived quite a few lives by Lila’s age. I’d gone abroad. I’d had one serious boyfriend – and moved on to the next,” she explained.
“In a lot of ways, though, Lila is so much more grown-up than I was in my 20s,” she continued. “Watching her establishing her career as a model takes me right back to the ’90s when I was just starting out, but I know that things will be different for her. She understands she can say no, for one thing, which I never did, and she has the right people around her – I’ve made sure of that. And let’s face it, she’s a lot more sensible than I was back then. I mean … thank God. Ha!”
Lila Steals Her Mom’s Clothes
Lila is a model just like her mom, and she loves stealing her clothes. “I would copy her outfits consistently,” the younger Lila said earlier this year in Vogue’s “Diary of a Model” series. This often including wearing a lot of black and gray and skinny jeans. “And now, I come out in my outfits and she’ll be like, ‘Oh my god I’m so jealous, you look so cute!’ and I’m like, ‘It’s all yours.”
At the same time, though, Lila is embracing her own style, which makes her twinning look on the cover of British Vogue so much more special. We love seeing how close this mother-daughter duo is!
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