25 Times Birthday Girl Kaia Gerber Looked Exactly Like Mom Cindy Crawford

The supermodel mom and daughter are total twins, and we have the pics to prove it

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Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber. Photo: kaia gerber/INSTAGRAM

Who's who? It's easy to get Cindy Crawford and her daughter Kaia Gerber confused!

According to Gerber, who turns 22 on Sept. 3, 2023, her striking resemblance to her supermodel mom is something she cherishes.

"I always love going back and looking at photos of my mom when she was closer to my age. You can't deny that we have similarities," she told Byrdie in 2019, discussing how Crawford's beauty truly shines from the inside out.

"And I've always tried to be more like her. I've always looked up to her in the way that she hasn't let anything in the business affect her," Gerber said. "In my eyes, she's the coolest, nicest person in the world."

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Seeing Double

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Cindy Crawford/Instagram

Here, the two twin in camel coats in an off-duty moment at Paris Fashion Week 2022.

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So Close

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"I'm proud of her because I guess in that way she is more confident than I was at that age," Crawford said on Tell Me with Ellen Pompeo in October 2021, talking about how Gerber has dipped her toes into acting.

The mom and daughter (who are both Omega ambassadors) matched in black at an event for the luxury Swiss watchmaker that fall.

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Smoldering in Sparkles

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The models struck the same pose at the InStyle Awards in November 2021, reminding us that everything's better with a hint of glimmer.

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Like Mother, Like Daughter

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Work trips are always better with your bestie! Plain white robes never looked so chic.

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Mom and Her Mini-Me

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The eyes! The smize! The dynamic duo leaned in at a charity gala in Beverly Hills in 2019.

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Students of Fashion

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In an ultimate matching moment, the supermodels paired their power suits with sunglasses and copies of Vogue at the magazine's Forces of Fashion panel in 2019.

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Belles of the Ball

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At the 2018 Fashion Awards in London, Crawford and Gerber were seriously in sync — even striking the same pose with their feet!

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Great Genes

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The mom and daughter shared a makeup-free moment in matching graphic tees with a witty play on words, for a good cause.

"Working those 'MOM GENES' for a good cause! We love being involved with @BestBuddies," Crawford posted, promoting their work with the nonprofit.

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Angel Eyes

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In a 2019 essay for Vogue, Gerber opened up about why Crawford is her role model on more than just the runway.

"The biggest compliment is when someone says I act like my mom," she wrote.

"Beyond her beauty and obvious appeal, she has always been my hero and my role model because of the way she treats people and the lens that she sees the world through, and that's something for which I'm beyond grateful."

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Channeling Cindy

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Who wore it better? Gerber seemed to channel her mom's iconic 1992 MTV Video Music Awards look on her 18th birthday, stepping out in a similar bondage-style outfit and voluminous hairstyle for the celebrations.

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Better Together

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The supermodels got ready together for a night out — not that they needed to go anywhere to have a great time!

"When getting ready is almost as fun as the party!" Crawford wrote on Instagram.

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Who's Who?

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"I just don't see the resemblance," Gerber joked of a snuggled-up selfie with her model mom in 2017.

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Ever Complementary

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Proving that they just don't have a bad side, Gerber and Crawford served matching model stares at a Milan Fashion Week party in 2017.

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Halloween Heat

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The mom and daughter looked more like sisters at a Casamigos Halloween party in 2016.

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Cover Girls

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Crawford and Gerber matched in moto jackets on the April 2016 cover of French Vogue, in which editor-in-chief Emmanuelle Alt wrote about their similarities.

"The family resemblance is striking. There's the same brown eyes that gaze out from underneath the same full brows, the smile that could charm the stars out of the sky, the cascade of hair that would have Barbie green with envy and the same enviable figure from the same genetic miracle," Alt wrote, calling Gerber the "carbon copy of her mother at the same age."

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Front Row Family

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Complementing again in their go-to black, the pair's attendance at a fashion awards ceremony in 2016 deserved a double take.

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Same Smile

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These two always seem to be laughing together! Here, the Gerber girls giggled at a Moschino show in 2016.

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Yearbook Looks

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Gerber's school photo in 2017 inspired her mom to break out her old yearbook and find her own picture, which of course inspired an Insta-worthy moment.

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Leather Together

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Gerber reminded us that leather mini skirts and cute boots are always in style, just as Crawford did decades before.

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Major Campaigns

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Following in her mom's very stylish footsteps, Geber signed as the face of Marc Jacobs Beauty in 2017. The deal marked the then-16-year-old's first major beauty campaign.

Of course, Crawford is known to have fronted many beauty brands in the past, including for Revlon and her own company, Meaningful Beauty.

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Modern Menswear

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We can hardly tell the difference.

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Funny Bunnies

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"Why do we look the same age? @cindycrawford," Gerber captioned a selfie with Crawford on her Instagram Story.

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Making Loungewear Fabulous

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How do Crawford and Gerber unwind? In matching jumpsuits and shades, of course.

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The Airport or the Runway?

3. WHEN THE AIRPORT DOUBLED AS A RUNWAY
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Footnote: Gerber and her supermodel mom have also nailed their synchronized strut.

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Mirror Image

5. WHEN A COFFEE BREAK RESULTED IN THE ULTIMATE MIRROR IMAGE
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This 2015 smoothie date at the Malibu Farmer's Market had us truly seeing double – and seems like it did for the model mom and daughter, too!