How to Live Healthier Without Obsessing Over Health

Miranda Kerr (0:00)

When my mom was diagnosed with tumors in her spleen, it really made us look at everything that we were putting, like, on our body, in our body, on our hair. And we were just horrified when we found out that exposure to many different ingredients that were readily available in the marketplace was potentially contributing to her illness. And that is when we realized that our skin is your largest organ, and what you put on your skin sinks in, and that's what inspired me to create my brand. I created a product with Bacuchi Oil, Alfalfa and Acai. And this product we tested with diehard retinol fans, and we said, do you get better results from using our product or traditional retinol? 85% said they got better results using. Every single product was filtered through rose quartz crystals. It took me five years talking about sunscreen. To tell this sunscreen, it's a non-nano zinc sunscreen. I would say that my skin is probably better now than it's ever been. This is...

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When your mom got cancer, it was a wake-up call for you. What did it change about the way you live your life?

Miranda Kerr (3:22)

Oh, I must say, it opened our eyes from a health perspective. We grew up in this little country town in Australia, and my grandparents had a vegetable patch, and we thought that we were living our lives pretty healthily.

We also, I grew up drinking 90 juice since I was 13 Oh, wow. And that's one of the key ingredients across my whole range, but I guess we can get into that later. But when my mom was diagnosed with tumors in her spleen, it really made us look at everything that we were putting, like, on our body, in our body, on our hair. We looked at all of the ingredients, like, with fresh eyes. And we really looked deeply into, what do those numbers mean? What does it mean when it says a word that is unfamiliar to us? And we found this little book called The Chemical Maze. Not sure if you've heard about it. No. But this was, like, before the internet was such a thing. When, I know, can you imagine? And so this little handbook we would carry with us, and it would explain in layman's terms, like, this is sodium lauryl sulfate. It's a foaming agent. And, you know, like, what if it had, like, a sad face or confused, like, all the very simple way to explain to you, like, maybe in, like, large doses, this particular ingredient may be detrimental. It could be, you know, carcinogenic, like, talking about all the different ingredients, like, if there, if there may be an allergen or, and we just learnt so much from this experience, from my mum being sick. It was really such a pivotal point in all of our lives as a family to take a step further into learning about all of the ingredients that we assume to be safe because they're on the shelves. And we were just horrified when we found out that exposure to many different ingredients that were readily available in the marketplace was potentially contributing to her illness. And so we were just like, you know, pretty horrified. And then we went on a search to kind of clean out everything that we were doing.