The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Show

Miranda Kerr On Wellness & Beauty Rituals, Health Non-Negotiables, & How To Stay Present & Grounded

October 20, 2025

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  • Miranda Kerr emphasizes that foundational wellness practices like meditation, getting morning sun, exercise, and massage are crucial enhancements, not replacements, for high-tech wellness tools. 
  • Miranda Kerr prioritizes teaching her children practical life skills such as cooking and gardening, valuing outdoor play and minimizing screen time to foster curiosity and independence. 
  • Postpartum recovery benefits significantly from nurturing practices like Abhyanga (oil massage), and relying on feminine support networks during the initial weeks after childbirth. 
  • Meditation is the foundation of everything, and the goal is not to stop the mind from firing, but to allow it to decompress without judgment, even if you are only in the shallow end. 
  • Intentional planning, extending from the week to the entire year, is crucial for structuring time, prioritizing self-care, and ensuring quality family time. 
  • To combat mom guilt, reframe the narrative by telling children, "I get to go do what I love," which models passion and a strong work ethic for them to emulate. 

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Gua Sha Hairbrush & Massage Benefits
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  • Key Takeaway: Massage, including scalp massage via a gua sha hairbrush, is believed by Miranda Kerr to be key to overall health and wellness due to circulation promotion.
  • Summary: The gua sha hairbrush provides a sensorial, massaging feeling on the scalp, which is valued for stimulating circulation. Miranda Kerr believes massage—face, back, or head—is fundamental to health and wellness. Circulation promotion is a shared benefit across tools like the gua sha face sculptor and ice roller.
Hydrogen Water & Wellness Tech
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  • Key Takeaway: Miranda Kerr incorporates health tech like hydrogen water bottles, which create beneficial hydrogen in the water, alongside simple outdoor grounding practices.
  • Summary: Miranda drinks hydrogen-infused water throughout the day, believing it is beneficial for health, and notes the existence of hydrogen baths. She balances this tech interest with simple habits like going outside, putting feet in the grass, and watching the sunrise. The absorption of topical products through the skin is a key reason for her focus on clean skincare.
Parenting Four Boys’ Ages
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  • Key Takeaway: Miranda Kerr is raising four boys with age gaps spanning from 1.5 years old to a 14-year-old teenager.
  • Summary: The ages of her four sons are one and a half, six, seven, and fourteen years old, creating a dynamic between a toddler and a teenager. Her teenager sometimes rebels against her focus on biodynamic snacks, preferring to order food, which she handles by sometimes compromising or standing firm. She encourages her children’s friends to visit, ensuring they have appropriate food options.
Teenage Rebellion & Cooking Skills
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  • Key Takeaway: Miranda Kerr’s teenage son, Flynn, rebels against her health focus by wanting to order takeout, but he also possesses strong cooking skills from growing up in the kitchen.
  • Summary: Flynn often wants to order food instead of eating the healthy meals Miranda prepares, a typical teenage rebellion she manages by choosing her battles. Miranda makes hot chocolate using coconut milk, cacao, and maple syrup, emphasizing making food with love. Teaching kids practical skills like cooking, cleaning, and self-care is viewed as essential for raising functioning humans.
Childhood Skills & Values Transfer
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  • Key Takeaway: Miranda Kerr values passing down practical skills like cooking and gardening, alongside fostering the freedom and outdoor play she experienced growing up.
  • Summary: She emphasizes teaching children how to cook nutritious meals and the importance of gardening, skills she learned as a child. Miranda strongly advocates for minimal screen time, noting she was never bored growing up outdoors in the country, climbing trees and riding motorbikes. She believes children need the freedom to explore their environment, which her children experience at their house in Australia.
Australian Wildlife Encounters
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  • Key Takeaway: While Miranda Kerr has not personally experienced a spider crawling on her face, she recalls her father seeing a huge spider in the hallway of their bush home in Australia.
  • Summary: The hosts discuss the fear of large spiders in Australia, with a friend of Lauren’s claiming a spider the size of her head crawled on her face. Miranda confirms seeing snakes frequently while growing up in the Australian bush but has never personally encountered a spider of that extreme size. This anecdote provides a moment of shared fear regarding Australian wildlife.
Essential Oils for Wellness
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  • Key Takeaway: Peppermint essential oil is used internally (as a beadlet) for fresh breath and externally via a ‘Peppermint Halo’ roller for neck tension, headaches, and energy.
  • Summary: Essential oils are used both internally and externally, forming the basis for KORA Organics’ lack of synthetic fragrance. Applying peppermint oil to the back of the neck helps with tension and headaches while also being energetically uplifting. Taking three deep breaths using peppermint oil in the palms is a simple practice for energy support.
Biohacking Tech Exploration
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(00:13:11)
  • Key Takeaway: Miranda Kerr experiments with health tech like the Neurovisor to reset circadian rhythm and the TrueRife device for vagus nerve stimulation to promote calmness.
  • Summary: The Neurovisor is a light device worn over the eyes before sleep to help regulate the circadian rhythm, which Miranda found beneficial. TrueRife stimulates the vagus nerve via a 60-second spray application to help the body achieve an optimal frequency for relaxation and stress reduction. Apollo Neuro, worn on the wrist or ankle, vibrates to stimulate vagus nerves during sleep to improve HRV and sleep quality.
Openness to Wellness Practices
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(00:15:43)
  • Key Takeaway: Being open-minded and curious is essential for wellness practices to work, as many people prematurely dismiss potentially beneficial methods before understanding the underlying science.
  • Summary: Miranda believes that for ‘woo-woo’ practices to be effective, one must be open to them, even though much of it has scientific backing. Curiosity drives her to continuously learn and seek ways to be a better version of herself daily. When information becomes overwhelming, she reverts to basics like Vedic meditation, nature exposure, and facial massage.
Foundational Wellness & Circulation
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(00:17:23)
  • Key Takeaway: Basic self-care—eating right, mindfulness, exercise, and morning sun—must be in place for high-tech tools to be effective, with circulation being a key goal achieved through massage and dry brushing.
  • Summary: Meditation, practiced by Miranda since age 18, focusing on breath and mantra, is a core practice for grounding and circadian rhythm regulation. Facial massage is highlighted as key to fighting wrinkles by promoting circulation, similar to the benefits of dry body brushing. Tools should be seen as enhancements to a solid foundation of healthy eating, movement, and sun exposure.
Mutual Body Worker Dennis
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  • Key Takeaway: Both Miranda Kerr and Lauren Bosstick utilize the services of Dennis, an osteopath known for his incredible touch focused on spinal alignment and energy flow.
  • Summary: Dennis, an osteopath at Peak Wellness, is described as an angel whose touch is incredible and focuses on spinal alignment. Proper spinal alignment is linked to improved circulation to the brain, enhancing energy flow. The alignment of the spine and circulation are identified as the core principles behind many effective wellness practices.
Postpartum Recovery & Self-Kindness
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  • Key Takeaway: It takes approximately two years for a woman’s body to return to its baseline after childbirth, necessitating gentleness and kindness toward oneself during recovery.
  • Summary: Miranda emphasizes that she is not yet back to her pre-last-baby baseline a year and a half later, stressing the importance of not being overly critical. Hormonal changes significantly impact recovery, and she was advised that it takes about two years to fully return to baseline. She advocates for patience, especially when external pressures require appearing camera-ready soon after giving birth.
Post-Birth Nourishment Rituals
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  • Key Takeaway: Abhyanga (oil massage), often professionally administered in the first 30 days postpartum, is a crucial ritual for calming the nervous system after childbirth.
  • Summary: Miranda invested in having someone perform Abhyanga oil massage after her last three births, finding it deeply calming for the nervous system. Suria Spa in LA offers mother-baby treatments that provide necessary nourishment for the mother during the depleting postpartum period. She preferred relying on feminine support (mother, friends) over her husband during this time, as they understood the hormonal process better.
Family Routines and Dinner Time
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(00:27:35)
  • Key Takeaway: A strict routine, advised by Miranda’s grandmother, is vital for the safety and consistency of her four boys, including an early (4:30) PM dinner time.
  • Summary: Bedtime routines are set between (6:30)-(7:00) PM in winter and (7:30) PM in summer, with the household waking around (6:30) AM, allowing Miranda time for meditation at (5:00) AM. The (4:30) PM dinner allows time for a post-meal walk and ensures the baby is asleep by (6:00) PM without rushing the children. Family meals involve discussing the ‘Rose, Thorn, and Bud’ of their day to encourage open communication.
Screen Time and Social Media Rules
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(00:31:13)
  • Key Takeaway: Miranda and her husband maintain strict screen time limits for younger children, allowing only occasional family movie nights, while their 14-year-old uses Snapchat as the primary communication tool with friends.
  • Summary: Her husband is strongly anti-screen for the younger children, leading to a compromise of only watching a movie together on special occasions or weekends. The teenager is allowed Snapchat as it is the main way he communicates with friends, but parental controls are active, and they use Snap’s ‘Keys’ feature to discuss online dangers. They have not allowed social media for their teen, only Snapchat for peer connection.
Morning Rituals and Coffee Sourcing
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(00:52:12)
  • Key Takeaway: Miranda Kerr continues a modified celery juice routine (8 oz) and drinks Tahitian Noni juice daily, fueling her morning with Chameleon Cold Brew coffee, which she notes is very strong.
  • Summary: She drinks 8 ounces of celery juice instead of the full 16 ounces previously, followed by lemon water and coffee made with coconut milk and stevia. The Noni juice brand, Tahitian Noni, has been a staple since she was 13, and she sources her coffee from Chameleon Cold Brew, which is known to be potent. Her morning sequence concludes with aloe juice and Noni juice.
Vedic Meditation Practice
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(00:53:33)
  • Key Takeaway: Vedic meditation, practiced twice daily, is foundational, and Miranda learned that having a busy mind during meditation is acceptable as it still allows the mind to decompress.
  • Summary: Vedic meditation involves using a mantra and is taught by practitioners like Patty Uma Mother, who also offers yoga. A two-day intensive with her helped Miranda achieve a restored state, which positively impacted her Aura Ring metrics for the following week. The concept of ‘getting your feet wet’ applies to meditation; even if the mind is active, the practice still provides decompression benefits.
Business Structure and Intuition
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(00:55:29)
  • Key Takeaway: Successful business management requires meticulous calendar planning, prioritizing tasks around family needs, and trusting intuition over team pushback when launching products.
  • Summary: Miranda meticulously plans her schedule, integrating travel time, calls, and family duties like nap times and podcast recordings. She emphasizes that listening to her intuition, even against team pushback, has led to best-selling products for KORA Organics. Finding the finesse between listening to feedback and staying true to the founder’s vision is a continuous learning process.
Meditation and Presence Foundation
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(00:54:30)
  • Key Takeaway: Meditation benefits are scientifically backed, and incomplete practice is still valuable as it gets your feet wet.
  • Summary: Even long-term meditation practice can involve days where the mind is highly active, which is acceptable as it allows for decompression. The concept of ‘getting your feet wet’ applies, meaning any engagement is beneficial. Sitting in silence provides answers and serves as the foundation for everything else.
Structuring Business and Family Time
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  • Key Takeaway: Meticulous planning and prioritizing across daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly schedules is essential for balancing business and personal life.
  • Summary: Working precisely with the calendar, accounting for everything from school drop-offs to travel time, is highly beneficial for time management. Planning vacations a year in advance provides quality time and something positive to look forward to during busy work periods. This planning acts as a ‘carrot on the stick’ to motivate hard work.
Secret to Enjoying Moments
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  • Key Takeaway: The secret to life is enjoying every moment, as the power resides within the present experience.
  • Summary: Miranda Kerr shared the secret to life with her six-year-old: enjoy every moment, as the power is in the present. This was demonstrated by having him mindfully sip tea and eat chocolate, leading him to experience it as the best ever. Children at this age repeat these profound lessons to others, like his preschool teacher.
Business Operations Post-COVID
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  • Key Takeaway: Post-COVID, KORA Organics operates with a decentralized team, relying on annual in-person meetings for major planning and bonding.
  • Summary: Before COVID, wellness was integrated into the LA office with services like weekly massages and group meditations. Now, with a team spread across the country, in-person gatherings are reserved for major meetings once a year, often culminating in a Christmas party. There is a desire to bring back more daily wellness integration.
Selecting Social Engagements
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(00:59:50)
  • Key Takeaway: Social events are filtered by discussing whether they are worth the energy expenditure away from family, leading to highly selective attendance.
  • Summary: Miranda and her husband discuss invitations to determine if an event is truly worth the energy required for preparation and attendance. Often, they prefer staying home with their children because they grow up so fast. Exceptions are made for significant events like the Met Ball or meaningful personal celebrations.
Birthday Party Planning Nuances
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  • Key Takeaway: Miranda’s 40th birthday celebration evolved from wanting a simple picnic to embracing a large, joy-filled event encouraged by her husband.
  • Summary: The 40th birthday party was special because Miranda got to share things that brought her joy, like music and dancing, with people from around the world. She typically prefers intimate gatherings, but her husband pushed for a bigger celebration, which she ultimately enjoyed. The current preference leans toward an intimate dinner followed by a potential larger party.
Embracing Early Bedtimes
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  • Key Takeaway: Shifting bedtime from 11 PM to earlier, around (8:30) PM, significantly improved well-being, with ‘putzing’ activities moved to the morning.
  • Summary: Miranda now loves going to bed early and waking up early, noting it is good for metabolism and overall health. Her husband initiated this change, moving her habit of tidying up late at night (‘putzing’) to the morning for a more energizing vibe. The earlier bedtime allows for better rest and preparation for the day.
Content Consumption and Key Books
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  • Key Takeaway: Content consumption is limited, favoring books on psychology, children, and wellness, with David Hawkins’ ‘Power vs. Force’ being life-changing.
  • Summary: Miranda prioritizes reading books over other media, focusing on psychology and health. ‘Power vs. Force’ by David Hawkins explains consciousness levels, emphasizing that choosing higher thoughts like forgiveness can elevate one’s reality. Another recommended book for parenting is Dr. Becky Kennedy’s ‘Good Inside,’ which helps reframe mom guilt.
Function Health Sponsorship Details
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(01:09:00)
  • Key Takeaway: Function Health provides comprehensive biomarker testing, including hormones and toxins, offering patients data-driven control over their health.
  • Summary: Function is a health platform offering tests for over 100 biomarkers, including heart health, inflammation, and stress markers. This data empowers patients to make informed decisions about their bodies, moving beyond guesswork regarding health issues. Leading experts like Dr. Mark Hyman and Dr. Andrew Huberman endorse the platform.
Synergy Kombucha Gut Health Benefits
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(01:10:36)
  • Key Takeaway: Synergy kombucha delivers 9 billion living probiotics through slow fermentation, supporting gut health, immunity, and protein absorption naturally.
  • Summary: Synergy is highlighted as a real, raw, and unpasteurized kombucha made with organic ingredients, offering scientifically backed benefits. Its 30-year-old recipe ensures a diverse spectrum of beneficial bacteria, which multiplies benefits when the gut microbiome is diverse. The drink comes in over 20 bold flavors, making gut health enjoyable.
Good To Know Beverage Facts Platform
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  • Key Takeaway: Good To Know Facts is a resource providing clear, unbiased information on over 140 common beverage ingredients based on safety agency findings.
  • Summary: American Beverage launched Good To Know Facts to offer transparent information about beverage ingredients without spin or judgment. The platform allows consumers to research what U.S. and global food safety agencies say about ingredients. This resource puts consumers in the driver’s seat to make informed choices about what they ingest.
Skin Care Routine and Product Endorsements
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(01:14:28)
  • Key Takeaway: The Skinny Confidential Brow Peptide, featuring castor oil and a peptide, is praised for non-toxic brow growth and achieving a lifted, ‘wet’ look.
  • Summary: The Brow Peptide is used multiple times daily for a feathered brow appearance, and unlike some serums, it does not melt the fat around the eyes. Castor oil, historically used for hair growth, is the key ingredient, enhanced by a peptide for extra efficacy. The product is clean enough that even Michael Bosstick uses it.
Reframing Mom Guilt and Work Ethic
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  • Key Takeaway: Reframing mom guilt involves telling children ‘I get to go do what I love,’ which models passion and inspires them to follow their own paths.
  • Summary: Miranda learned from Emma Greed to reframe leaving for work as an opportunity to pursue passion, which is important for children to witness. Miranda’s own mother’s work ethic inspired her business drive, even though she sometimes felt a lack of presence growing up. This experience taught her the value of unconditional love alongside a strong work ethic.
KORA Organics Origin and Clean Beauty
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  • Key Takeaway: KORA Organics was founded after Miranda Kerr’s mother’s illness revealed that what is put on the skin is absorbed, necessitating certified organic and efficacious products.
  • Summary: The creation of KORA Organics stemmed from learning about health and wellness after Miranda’s mother developed tumors, highlighting skin absorption of topical products. The brand is certified organic by EcoCert Cosmos, distinguishing it from ‘clean beauty,’ which is often greenwashed. Perfumes are cited as endocrine disruptors containing hundreds of chemicals.
Evening Skincare Ritual
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  • Key Takeaway: Miranda’s evening ritual involves a double cleanse, application of body oil mixed with moisturizer, and the use of a plant stem cell retinol alternative.
  • Summary: The routine starts with the Active Algae Cleansing Balm followed by the Foaming Cleanser, with the Turmeric Scrub used for extra exfoliation on heavy makeup days. She applies body oil mixed with moisturizer everywhere, including between the toes, before using the Plant Stem Cell Retinol Alternative Serum and Moisturizer. The Milky Mushroom Mask is used as an overnight sleeping mask.
Advanced Sleep and Cellular Health Tech
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(01:27:18)
  • Key Takeaway: Cellular health is optimized before sleep by using a cell regulation mat for 20 minutes on the sleep program, often layered with a red light/laser mat.
  • Summary: Miranda uses a cell regulation mat from Health Optimizing on her bed for 20 minutes to aid ATP production and cellular health before sleep. She layers this with a red light Weber laser mat simultaneously for dual technology benefits. Her husband sometimes finds the routine, especially when adding a Neurovisor, excessive.
Product Recommendations and Giveaway
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  • Key Takeaway: Recommended KORA Organics products include the Cleansing Balm, Turmeric Scrub, and the new Turmeric Glow Drops, with a giveaway announced.
  • Summary: The Cleansing Balm and Turmeric products are highly recommended for their efficacy in cleansing and pore minimization. The Turmeric Glow Drops, which minimize pores, can be used morning or night. A giveaway basket featuring favorite KORA Organics and Skinny Confidential products is offered to followers who engage with the episode discussion on Lauryn Bosstick’s Instagram.