Miranda Kerr's family issues public plea for contact
Miranda Kerr's relatives in Australia have issued a public plea for the supermodel to head back Down Under amid claims they have not seen her in "over a year".
The brunette beauty left her native country and moved to New York five years ago, marrying and later splitting from British actor Orlando Bloom, the father of her young son Flynn.
Kerr's parents have now filmed an emotional segment for an
Australian TV show in which they claim to have lost contact with
the 30 year old. In the episode of Family Confidential, the clan
claims they have not seen Kerr in "over a year" and her mother,
Therese, suggests her efforts to contact her daughter are rarely
reciprocated.
She says, "Miranda's life is so different now (and) she's
surrounded by yes people all the time. It's so important for me to
be real, to be true, to be who she needs me to be... We have been
best friends for most of our life. We used to talk just about every
day. I send her messages, just little texts to say 'I love you
honey, let your little light shine...'"
Kerr's father John reveals he didn't hear from his daughter after
she split from her husband last year (13), and was instead told the
news in a phone call from Bloom.
He says of the call, "I remember him saying 'We're always going to
be family' and that's how we'll treat Orlando, Miranda and Flynn.
We're all family."
Kerr's grandmother Ann says, "I miss the baby and I think he's
missing out on family, that closeness that we have always had," and
the catwalk star's brother Matthew adds, "I'd like to spend more
one-on-one time instead of with an entourage of people who we don't
really know. I love her to death, I just want to see her more."
A spokeswoman for Kerr tells the Herald Sun, "(She) wasn't able to
be back in Australia... due to her busy international work schedule
but is grateful to her parents, brother and extended family in
Australia for their ongoing support and love."
The episode airs in Australia next week (beg10Feb14).