Karlie Kloss, who is pregnant and expecting baby No. 3 with husband Josh Kushner, made rare comments about their marriage.
“Josh, my husband, we’ve been together since I was 19. We’ve grown up together. He’s always been my biggest champion,” Kloss shared on Tuesday’s episode of Emma Grede’s “Aspire” podcast.
The model, 32, explained that Kushner, 39, has stood by her side as she balances being a mom with her own career.
“Especially in this adjustment into motherhood, he’s been somebody who’s like, ‘Karlie, you cannot lose yourself. You will not be happy and then our children will feel that,’” she said. “That’s something I so appreciate, that he has been my mirror in that way.”
Kloss noted that the Thrive Capital founder was “very early in his career” when they first started dating, while she was already established.
“I like to remind him that I was far more successful than he was for a very long time!” she said. “I never met anyone like him before. He was such a kind man. I was still a girl, but I had lived this very adult, worldly life since I was 15.”
She continued, “I had had my first apartment in New York, I’d traveled [to] New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, everywhere, while juggling my high school education.”
The “Project Runway” star called herself “really lucky” for being able to meet her soulmate when she was so young.
“I never could have imagined I’d meet the love of my life at 19,” she said of Kushner, who was 25 at the time.
The Kode with Klossy founder said that they have “been through so much together” at this point because of how early they met.
“We’ve both really grown together. I think that’s also part of why our partnership is so solid,” she said.
The former Victoria’s Secret Angel announced that she and Kushner were expanding their family for the third time in March.
“Three’s a party 🎉,” she captioned her Instagram baby bump debut at the time.
They are already parents to two sons: Levi, 4, and Elijah, 1.
The duo began dating in 2012 and the investor proposed six years later. They tied the knot in October 2018.