Naomi Watts Supports Daughter Kai After Celine Fashion Show

Naomi Watts is proving she’s daughter Kai’s biggest cheerleader.

Watts, 56, sat front row while she watched Kai, 16, walk the runway in Paris, France, at the Celine Spring 2026 show during Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week on Sunday, July 6.

The actress also penned a sweet message to Kai via Instagram, alongside a counsel of images from the show. “@celine such magic!! Congrats Michael ,” she captioned her post. “@kaischreiberrr slayed the moment xx.”

Kai also gushed over the moment while sharing her own photos from the event. “Celine SS26 ,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “Thank you to everyone on the team who made this possible forever grateful ♡︎.”

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One month before heading to Paris, Watts and Kai enjoyed a mother-daughter outing in New York City at an Armani Beauty. Kai made her modeling debut at Paris Fashion Week in March and has since been candid about her desire to make her mark on the fashion industry.

“I want to be a supermodel. Period,” she told Interview Magazine in June. “I’ve been practicing my walks in the kitchen for years; my mom can show you all the videos I forced her to film. Struggling with gender identity from a young age most likely had something to do with it. I always wanted to grow up and be a beautiful, glamorous, influential woman, like Marilyn.”

Watts shares daughter Kai and son Sasha, 17, with ex Liev Schreiber. The exes split in 2016 after 11 years together and have since made sure to prioritize their coparenting relationship.

“We’re doing things very differently,” Watts told Net-A-Porter in 2019. “I’m pretty proud of us, corny as that may sound. We’ve made it our absolute priority to be good and kind to each other and we’re absolutely committed to that.”

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Watts and Schreiber have also shared their support for Kai, who is a transgender woman. “Kai was always who Kai is,” Schreiber said in a May interview with Variety. “But I suppose the most profound moment was her asking us to change her pronouns. To be honest with you, it didn’t feel like that big of a deal to me only because Kai had been so feminine for so long.”

Watts moved on with Billy Crudup, whom she wed in 2023. Schreiber, for his part, tied the knot with Taylor Neisen the same year. The couple welcomed their first child together, daughter Hazel, in 2023.