If you have ever searched Bruno Mars and Miranda Kerr, you have probably had the same experience: a lot of speculation in the search results and very little concrete information. The reason both names keep appearing together is simpler than the speculation suggests, and it goes back to 2010.
The actual connection
In September 2010 the Australian model Miranda Kerr, then a Victoria's Secret Angel, appeared in the music video for Bruno Mars's breakthrough single Just the Way You Are. The track was the lead single from his debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans, it spent a then-record number of weeks atop the US Billboard Hot 100, and it remains one of the most-streamed songs of his career.
Kerr appeared as the woman the song is addressed to. The video was directed by Ethan Lader and shot in late summer 2010. There is no evidence of any relationship between the two beyond the video shoot. Kerr was at the time in a relationship with the actor Orlando Bloom, whom she would marry the following year.
Why the search keeps coming back
Three reasons. First, the song's continued ubiquity on streaming and on radio means new listeners look up the video, find Kerr in it, and search the pairing. Second, both performers have remained famous in the fifteen years since: Mars for his Silk Sonic project and his Las Vegas residency, Kerr for KORA Organics and her marriage to Snap chief executive Evan Spiegel. Third, search-suggestion algorithms tend to reinforce queries that have any historical volume at all, which keeps the pairing surfaced even when there is no fresh news.
The short answer
Bruno Mars and Miranda Kerr were never romantically connected. They worked together on a single 2010 music video that became a global hit, which is why their names continue to appear in the same search box more than a decade later.
