Kaia Gerber has maintained several high-profile relationships over the years. The daughter of Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber, Gerber began her modeling career at the age of 10 and made her debut in a Versace campaign in 2012. Once her career took off, Gerber said she didn't have much time for relationships as a typical teen attending high school in Malibu, California, where she grew up.
“When I'm working, I don't even have the energy to flirt with anyone. I just don't have it,” Gerber told British Vogue in 2019. “Sorry, I can't do it.” “But I haven't lost all hope of love forever.”
Meanwhile, the Palm Royale actress is gradually finding a sense of balance and dedicating more time to romance. Before her relationship with actor Austin Butler, who she has been dating since December 2021, she was rumored to be dating celebrities such as Pete Davidson and Jacob Elordi.
Despite both having high-profile jobs, Gerber and Butler prefer to keep their relationship out of the public eye. Butler told the WSJ that their relationship is “sacred.” “I honestly think very little in my life is private. It's one of those things that I try to keep as sacred as possible,” she said.
Kaia Gerber and Wellington Grant
Gerber and fellow model Wellington Grant were spotted together on multiple occasions in early 2019 but never officially confirmed their relationship. They were photographed leaving the Mercer Hotel together on Valentine's Day and were last seen together at dinner with Gerber's parents in April.
Kaia Gerber and Pete Davidson
Gerber, 18, was in a relationship with Saturday Night Live actor Pete Davidson from October to December 2019. The two were first spotted on dates in New York and Los Angeles, and she brought a birthday cake to the studio in celebration of his birthday on November 16.
Later in November, the pair were spotted kissing by a hotel pool while attending a friend's wedding in Miami. The following month, during an SNL sketch, Davidson joked that “the world wants to punch me in the throat” because he was dating Gerber. In the same segment, he also hinted that he was planning to go to rehab. The couple broke up soon after.
“She's still very young and I was going through a rough patch and that was before she went to rehab,” Davidson said in February 2020. “She should just be having fun. She shouldn't have to worry about people who are just having problems. She should love what she does.”
“It was just the wrong place and the wrong timing,” he said. “Her parents are really supportive and nice people.”
Gerber's parents were supportive of her relationship, but also had misgivings. “A lot of people go through difficult times as kids and teenagers, and we thought we'd made it through,” Crawford told Vogue in an interview. “Then a little while later, it hit us. But you have to let your kids go and be prepared to take the fall.”
Kaia Gerber and Jacob Elordi
Gerber began dating Euphoria actor Jacob Elordi in September 2020, and the pair were spotted hanging out together in Malibu and New York City. Soon after, the pair took a trip to Los Cabos with Gerber's parents.
“Jacob is very sweet to Kaia. They're always very affectionate and cute together,” a source told Us in November 2020. “It's clear that Cindy and Randy approve of Jacob as well. They spend a lot of time together.”
She shared romantic Valentine's Day photos of flowers and beach photos with a simple message of a red heart. A few months later, she spoke out about their relationship. “Being with someone I could trust, where we didn't ask for anything from each other, and having a safe and stable relationship, opened my eyes to the possibility of love and what it means to love unconditionally,” Gerber told Vogue in a May 2021 interview. “Lust is touching and wanting another person, but love is really seeing someone.”
In August, Elordi said on Jimmy Kimmel Live that as soon as he met Gerber, she pressured him into cutting the mullet she'd grown out during quarantine. “She ended the relationship a week into our relationship,” he told Kimmel. “She dragged me into the bathroom, got a pair of scissors and cut my hair,” he said. “She said, 'You're pretty, but you're not that pretty.'”
They made their red carpet debut at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Opening Gala in September of that same year.
The two split in November 2021, but Elordi spoke highly of her shortly thereafter, telling Men's Health magazine that he “learned a lot from her about how to deal with a life in the spotlight.”
Kaia Gerber and Austin Butler
Less than a month after splitting with Elordi, Gerber was dating Elvis actor Austin Butler. The pair began dating in December 2021 but didn't make their relationship public on the red carpet until March 2022, when the new couple made an appearance together at a W Magazine event.
Gerber and Butler attended the Met Gala together in May 2022, though they walked the red carpet separately, with Butler accompanying Elvis Presley's widow, Priscilla Presley. The pair then went to the Cannes Film Festival together to watch Elvis's premiere.
Butler won a Golden Globe for his performance as Elvis in January 2023, with Priscilla and daughter Lisa Marie Presley in attendance. Gerber was photographed praising her lover shortly after receiving the award. When Elvis' daughter Lisa Marie Presley died suddenly in January 2023, Butler and Gerber attended her memorial service at Graceland, sitting behind the Presleys. The couple continued their relationship for the rest of 2023 with romantic date nights, a trip to Paris Fashion Week in the fall, and Halloween costumes where they dressed up as Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol.
Gerber and Butler were last seen together in February 2024 at the London premiere of Butler's new film Dune Part II in Leicester Square, where Gerber was in attendance to support Butler in the lead role.
