On Thursday night, supermodel Karlie Kloss responded to jabs made at her expense due to her relation to the Kushners.
Kloss is married to Joshua Kushner, who is the brother of Jared Kushner, prominent White House advisor and husband to eldest Trump daughter Ivanka Trump.
Joining Bravo host Andy Cohen on “Watch What Happens Live,” Kloss was asked about an apparent jab “Project Runway” contestant Tyler Neasloney made earlier this month about the supermodel’s familial connection to the Kushners. After he designed a widely panned dress, Neasloney suggested Kloss could wear it to a “dinner with the Kushners.”
The remark elicited a meme-able stunned look from Kloss, as well as gasps from fellow contestants.
Neasloney, who was sent home, later apologized for the comment. “I want you to know that I’m not a jerk; I’m professional,” he told Kloss. “What I said earlier had no hidden agenda, no meaning, no nothing like that.”
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“I cannot see Karlie wearing it anywhere, honestly.”
“Not even to dinner with the Kushners?”#ProjectRunway pic.twitter.com/O9qJbrC2ZN
— Ξvan Ross Katz (@evanrosskatz) January 3, 2020
“I was honored to be one of the first memes of the decade. But honestly, the real tragedy of this whole thing is that no one is talking about how terrible that dress was. That’s why he went home,” the supermodel brushed off the controversy to Cohen, according to Vanity Fair. “No, I would not wear that dress to any dinner,” she added.
However, Kloss was unable to skirt the political issue, as Cohen pressed about an inside look into her politics.
“Andy, I’m sure I’m not the only person in this country who does not necessarily agree with their family on politics,” Kloss responded. “I voted as a Democrat in 2016, and I plan to do the same in 2020.”
“It was 2012 [when we met], it was a different world,” she later added, referring to meeting her now-husband. “My man and I have been through a lot together. I’m so proud that he’s my partner. It’s not been easy, but it’s worth it. I would make that same decision a million times again.”
As noted by Vanity Fair, the supermodel opened up to British Vogue last year about the political mix within the Kushner family.
“I choose to focus on the values that I share with my husband, and those are the same liberal values that I was raised with and that have guided me throughout my life,” the 27-year-old said.
Kloss, an open liberal, has promoted abortion facility Planned Parenthood in the past. In response to passed pro-life legislation in 2019, for example, the model took to Instagram to ask her fans to support to the abortion mill.
“I want to talk to you about what’s happening in my beloved home state of Missouri and around the country,” Kloss said, according to Democracy Now. “We are in an urgent public health crisis. And for the first time since Roe v. Wade, more than 1.1 million women of reproductive age in Missouri could be left without access to a single health center in their state that provides safe abortion care. Across the country, these bans are attacking our rights to own our decisions that affect our bodies and our health.”
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On tonight's #WWHL, supermodel @KarlieKloss addressed the viral Kushner moment from this season of #ProjectRunway pic.twitter.com/Ud0pFdNxgd
— WWHL (@BravoWWHL) January 17, 2020