Cara Delevingne

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne was born on 12 August 1992, in Hammersmith, London. Her parents are property developer Charles Hamar Delevingne and his wife Pandora Stevens. She grew up in Belgravia, London, with two older sisters, including Poppy Delevingne, and a paternal half-brother. She has 16 godparents, among them are actress Joan Collins, Eton provost and former Condé Nast International president Sir Nicholas Coleridge, and Annette ‘Scruff’ Howard from Howard family.

Delevingne's maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens. Her paternal grandmother was Hon. Angela Delevingne and her maternal grandmother was Jane Armyne Sheffield, herself a granddaughter of Berkeley Sheffield, 6th Baronet, Sir Lionel Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet and Armyne Gordon of Huntly, of Clan Gordon, as well as a descendant of the House of de Vere (through Sheffields), the House of Orange-Nassau, French kings and Anglo-Norman kings. Furthermore, Jane Sheffield was a lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret.

Delevingne attended the independent Bedales School in Steep, Hampshire from 2003 to 2009. She has dyspraxia and found school challenging. 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."