Everywhere

Kerr showed up constantly after the Bloom split—she was one of those celebrities who saturate the magazines after a breakup. British GQ’s cover had her discussing how her sex life affected her body, the basic observation that more sex meant tighter muscles, less meant softer. It’s something you’d say to friends over drinks, not something you’d volunteer to a magazine, but there it was.

I think celebrity operates in this weird space where you can say things that would be mortifying anywhere else, and they just become quotes. Kerr wasn’t being ironic or trying to provoke—she was direct, and because she’s famous, that directness becomes interesting. There’s an odd honesty to it, almost elegant in how it works. She said it, the magazine printed it, and nobody questioned whether it was strange. That’s the whole mechanism right there.