Miranda Kerr (born February 20, 1983) is an Australian fashion model. She was raised in the Australian rural town of Gunnedah, but moved to Brisbane shortly after, and is of Turkish, Serbian, and Filipino heritage. Kerr began modelling at age 13 after winning the Dolly/Impulse Modelling Competition in 1997. This win sparked significant media attention and controversy over her age and maturity, and the matter of paedophilia and child pornography. Kerr dismissed these claims in an interview, stating; "They were blowing out of proportion. In the media at the time they were trying to cling on to anything remotely to do with paedophilia. Dolly is a magazine for teenage girls, not for old men. And I was fully clothed! Doing a winter shoot! They just made something out of nothing."