Ew, this hairstyle is not the best on Miranda Kerr. She’s trying to do a high-ponytail with some volume at the top, and it just doesn’t work with the shape of her face. These are photos of Miranda at the Swarovski Gala Dinner at the Sydney Opera House yesterday. So… she was in Sydney a few days ago, when James Packer and his friend got into a fistfight in the street over Miranda’s alleged homewrecking ways.

Anyway, Miranda has a newish (it’s a few days old) interview with The Telegraph, and I found it really enjoyable. Her granola shtick grinds away and it’s clear that The Telegraph interview is committed to finding the woman behind the cutesy, wholesome façade. Which leads to some interesting revelations, and Miranda even gets terse about religion. Some highlights:

The religion part: Although she has only positive things to say about Bloom, one of the few times I see a glimmer of real personality during our interview is when I ask her about her religion and spirituality. It’s been previously reported dozens of times that Kerr is a practising Nichiren Buddhist, which she now denies. “No, I’m not Buddhist. Orlando is,” she says, a little sharply. When I ask her if that’s been misreported, she will only say, “I’m not Buddhist. I’m Christian. I pray every day. I meditate every day and I do yoga. I’m not religious, I’m spiritual. And praying is something my grandmother taught me as well. To pray and be grateful, have gratitude, is a big thing for me.”

Putting the first photo of Flynn on her social media: “There was so much pressure at the time on us as a family for that first picture. And you know, the paparazzi were very aggressive and waiting outside our door every single day. And so Orlando and I decided – he took the photo – to post it on my social media. That way, that first photo wouldn’t be worth nearly as much, because I’d already posted it.” She says it takes a lot of effort and time to avoid the paparazzi, but she’s sanguine about them. “It’s all part of the process. And I accept that. You can’t begrudge it because it’s helped me get to where I am today. But there are times when [I wish] I didn’t have to worry about it so much.”

Who she’s closest to: Kerr says that she has a “variety of friends, and I like people from different walks of life”. She mentions one friend from home, and her make-up artist, Rosemary, who looks after her dog, Frankie, when she’s away. She says she speaks to her grandmother and her father. She does not mention her mother, Therese, who made headlines in February when she complained on an Australian reality show that the family barely sees Kerr anymore.

The James Packer rumors: All Kerr will say about her current romantic life is that she’s “single and focused on work”.

She’s not just a model: “I’m not limited by modelling. It’s not the be all and end all. I’m very appreciative of it, but if it stops tomorrow, that’s not the end of the world, because there’s so much more that I’m passionate about as well.”

[From The Telegraph]

She does not take a lot of time and effort avoiding the paparazzi. Bollocks. For a while there, she was doing daily paparazzi-friendly outings, and she still gets pap’d on the reg, especially in NYC. As for her religion, oh, excuse me, her spiritual talk… I understand what she was trying to say, she just said it in a really weird way. I guess she’s saying that she was raised a Christian, she still identifies as Christian, but she does yoga and meditates and tries to find the spiritual side of banging billionaires. Namaste, girl.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.