

ĭelevingne was scouted by Burberry's Christopher Bailey in 2012 while working part-time in the office of a fashion website. She worked in the industry for a year before booking a paying job and went through two seasons of castings before landing her first runway show. She signed with Storm Management in 2009.

Career Modelling careerĭelevingne at London Fashion Week in September 2014 2002–2014: Career beginningsĭelevingne had her first modelling job at age ten in an editorial shot by Bruce Weber for Vogue Italia alongside model Lady Eloise Anson. After one year, she dropped out and followed her sister Poppy into modelling.

In June 2015, in an interview with Vogue, Delevingne talked about her battle with depression when she was 15: "I was hit with a massive wave of depression and anxiety and self-hatred, where the feelings were so painful that I would slam my head against a tree to try to knock myself out." At 16, after completing her GCSEs, she moved to Bedales School in Hampshire to focus on drama and music. She has dyspraxia and found school challenging. ĭelevingne attended Francis Holland School for Girls in central London until she was 16 before moving to Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire. Through one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet, Delevingne descends from the Anglo-Jewish Faudel-Phillips baronets two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London. Her maternal grandmother Janie Sheffield, a granddaughter of the 6th Baronet Sheffield, was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Delevingne's maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the nephew of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton and the grandson of newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. She has two older sisters, Chloe and Poppy Delevingne, and a paternal half-brother, Alex Jaffe. Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on 12 August 1992, in Hammersmith, London, the daughter of stylist and personal shopper Pandora Anne Delevingne ( née Stevens) and property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne.
