This June, Cara Delevingne is somewhere between Berlin and Brooklyn on an eleven-city tour for an album almost nobody has heard yet. It is her third career. The first made her the most in-demand runway face of the early 2010s and twice the British Fashion Awards' Model of the Year; the second put her in DC blockbusters and a West End spotlight as Cabaret's Sally Bowles. The eyebrows — the ones credited with ending the thin-brow decade single-handedly — stayed for all three.
Belgravia, Bedales and a Slow Start
Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on August 12, 1992, in Hammersmith, London, into a family that reads like a Debrett's index: property-developer father, socialite mother, a publishing-executive grandfather who chaired English Heritage, and older sisters — including model Poppy — already orbiting fashion. The polish hid a hard adolescence: dyspraxia made school a struggle, and at fifteen she went through a depression she has since spoken about with unusual candor. She left Bedales School in 2009 and signed with Storm Management — the agency that found Kate Moss. The irony of her origin story is that it wasn't instant: her first editorial came at age ten (shot by Bruce Weber for Vogue Italia), then a full year passed without a paying job, and two seasons of castings before anyone put her on a runway.
The Burberry Decade
Burberry's Christopher Bailey scouted her himself, and her catwalk debut came at London Fashion Week 2011 for Burberry Prorsum. What followed was the fastest ascent of her generation: every major house in Paris, Milan and New York, the 2012 Victoria's Secret show, and a creative bond with Karl Lagerfeld that made her a Chanel fixture — she walked his tartan "Paris-Édimbourg" show at Linlithgow Palace and the first Chanel cruise show ever held in Asia. The British Fashion Awards named her Model of the Year in 2012 and again in 2014; Forbes had her sixth among the world's highest-paid models in 2014 and second by 2015, at $9 million. Then, at the absolute peak, she throttled it back. The industry blamed Hollywood; she corrected the record in a Time essay: "It's taken time, but now I realize that work isn't everything and success comes in many forms. I'm spending more time doing the stuff I love."
The Work Beyond the Catwalk
The commercial résumé spans Chanel, Dior, Burberry, YSL, Marc Jacobs, DKNY, Alexander Wang, TAG Heuer and Rimmel, with covers from American Vogue to British GQ. She has also worked the other side of the table: a deliberately unisex DKNY capsule collection and four accessory collections for Mulberry — rucksacks, purses and passport holders that sold on her name.
Hollywood
Her screen run started quietly — a princess in Joe Wright's "Anna Karenina" (2012) — then broke open with "Paper Towns" (2015), where Variety called her "the real find of the film." She went villainous as the Enchantress in "Suicide Squad" (2016), interstellar as Laureline in Luc Besson's "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" (2017), and serial as Vignette Stonemoss, the faerie lead of Amazon's "Carnival Row" opposite Orlando Bloom. In 2022 she joined "Only Murders in the Building" for its second season, and in March 2024 made her stage debut as Sally Bowles in the West End's "Cabaret" at the Kit Kat Club. The career's connective tissue is range-testing: nobody hands a model the lead of a steampunk fantasy series unless the screen tests forced them to.
The Third Act: Music
Music was always the suppressed instinct. She wrote and recorded two whole albums under Simon Fuller's management as a teenager and was offered a record deal — then walked away from it. By her late teens she was duetting with Will Heard, recording "CC the World" with Pharrell Williams for a Chanel film, and lending backing vocals to St. Vincent's "Pills" and the title track of Fiona Apple's "Fetch the Bolt Cutters." The slow burn finally caught: her name appeared on the Primavera Sound 2026 lineup with zero songs released, and in May 2026 she signed with Warner Records, dropping two debut singles — "I Forgot" and "Out of My Head" — with a short film attached and a debut album due late summer. The tour runs from Berlin on June 1 to Brooklyn on June 26.
Earnings and Net Worth
Forbes tracked her modeling peak precisely — $3.5 million in 2014, $9 million in 2015, second-highest-paid in the world — and the diversification since (acting fees, design collections, the vegan prosecco label Della Vite she runs with her sisters) has kept the engine running. Wealth trackers such as Celebrity Net Worth currently estimate her fortune between $35 and $50 million. As always, these are editorial estimates; the Forbes-era figures are the documented anchor.
The Private Side
Delevingne has narrated her own identity in public, on her own schedule: she came out as genderfluid in 2018 (she uses she/her pronouns), identified as pansexual for years, and in 2026 said plainly that she is a lesbian. The relationship history is part of pop culture — musician St. Vincent from 2015 to 2016, actress Ashley Benson from 2019 to 2020 — and since 2022 she has been with musician Leah Mason, who records as Minke. The harder chapters she has refused to hide: the depression that began at fifteen, an ADHD diagnosis revealed on live television, harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein she made public in 2017, and a stint in rehab in late 2022, after which she told Vogue she joined a twelve-step program and has been sober since. In March 2024 her Los Angeles home burned down while she was away — both her cats made it out.
Where She Is Now
Mid-2026 finds her in the strangest, most self-directed stretch of her career: on stage nightly with songs she held back for fifteen years, an album landing late summer, Della Vite growing, and her environmental platform EcoResolution campaigning to make ecocide an international crime. She remains on Storm's board — the eyebrows, as ever, fully booked. Among the Kendall Jenner-era supermodels she came up with, none has rebuilt themselves this many times.