Kaia Gerber shares throwback photo and gushing tribute to mom Cindy Crawford as supermodel turns 55

Her famous mother is her mentor as she follows in her footsteps as a model.

And Kaia Gerber, 19, posted a gushing tribute to Cindy Crawford on Instagram as the veteran star celebrated her 55th birthday on Saturday.

The teen posted a throwback snap of Cindy as a young woman at the start of her career and in the caption she wrote: ‘happy birthday beautiful mama.’ 

Kaia added: ‘to the person who always makes me do a double take, the woman who gets more beautiful every year, and the mother I can only hope to be like one day… I love you.’

She then also shared a montage of images included several in which she’s seen as a young child with her supermodel mom. 

In the photos she shared, Kaia described Cindy as ‘super mom’, ‘style twin’ and ‘queen of reading’.   

 ‘And she’s even MORE beautiful on the INSIDE!!!!’ she added on her Instagram Story.

Kaia is with her mom and her dad Rande Gerber in South Florida where they recently purchased a waterfront mansion in Miami Beach for a shade under $10 million.

Rande, 58, and the couple’s son Presley, 21, also posted birthday tributes on Instagram. 

Since making her professional runway debut shortly after her 16th birthday, Kaia has rapidly become one of the industry’s most sought after young models.

And Cindy has stated publicly that she had no qualms at all about her teen daughter following in her footsteps.

Kaia Gerber did her first professional photo shoot for Junior Versace when she was 10 and made her professional catwalk debut a few days after her 16th birthday.

And on Thursday, at the Vogue: Forces Of Fashion event in New York, Cindy Crawford explained that she had no qualms at all about allowing her daughter to follow in her footsteps at such a young age.

‘I had no trepidation at all about saying yes to Kaia,’  she explained while taking part in the Vogue: Forces Of Fashion event in New York in October 2019. 

‘I felt comfortable and I was like, ‘Go for it, have fun and I’m always here if you have a question.”

As for some of the criticism she received for allowing her daughter to star modeling at such a young age, Cindy’s defense was that, thanks to social media, ‘everyone’s a model in their everyday life.’

As for Kaia, she has no issue with people wanting to compare her to her famous mom. 

‘If I have to be compared to anyone in the world, it’s the biggest compliment,’ she commented.