David Bowie’s daughter Lexi, 20, shares throwback childhood snap with mum Iman

‘Love you to bits’: David Bowie’s daughter Lexi, 20, shares throwback childhood snap with supermodel mother Iman in ‘appreciation’ post


David Bowie‘s daughter Lexi shared an ‘appreciation’ post to her supermodel mother Iman on Instagram on Thursday.

The 20-year-old uploaded a throwback snap from her childhood which showed Lexi and Iman, 65, hugging. 

Lexi captioned the photo: ‘Appreciation to my mutha. Love you to bits’ (sic).  

‘Appreciation to my mutha. Love you to bits’: David Bowie’s daughter Lexi shared an ‘appreciation’ post to her mother Iman on Instagram on Thursday

Iman showed off her model looks in the stunning photograph and cut a glamorous figure in a patterned one-shouldered top. 

Her hair was styled in Hollywood curls and she beamed with joy as Lexi wrapped her arms around her for the photograph. 

Lexi is a budding artist based in California and previously shared her heartache about not being able to see her mum for six months due to the pandemic because Iman was in New York. 

Famous parents: Lexi is the daughter of the Space Oddity hitmaker and the Somali fashion model, who first met in 1990 at a dinner party

Famous parents: Lexi is the daughter of the Space Oddity hitmaker and the Somali fashion model, who first met in 1990 at a dinner party

Lexi is the daughter of the Space Oddity hitmaker and the Somali fashion model, who first met in 1990 at a dinner party.

After her birth, it was said that she helped her father put his workaholic attitude ‘into perspective’ and give him the will to stay healthy after his first heart attack.

David also had a son, Duncan Jones, from a previous marriage while Imran shares her daughter Zulekha Haywood with a former love.

It has been five years since David shockingly passed away at the age of 69, on January 10, 2016, after an 18-month battle with cancer.

Adorable: Back in January, Lexi paid tribute to her late father on what would have been his 71st birthday with this throwback snap

Adorable: Back in January, Lexi paid tribute to her late father on what would have been his 71st birthday with this throwback snap

Iman married the English rocker in a romantic ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland in April 1992 which was later formalised in a wedding hosted in Florence in June. 

She previously revealed how she did not want Lexi to follow her into modelling or becoming a superstar child of a famous couple, like many of her peers.

In a 2018 interview with Net A Porter, Iman, 64, said: ‘Every agency, every designer, called me to say: “If she wants to, we’d love for her to model for us.”

‘I said: “No, she doesn’t.” I know why they wanted to her to model – it’s because she is David Bowie’s daughter.

‘She says I am overprotective. But I told her, this can all wait, it isn’t going anywhere.

‘Have a life that is private while you can, because one day soon it is going to be public, so enjoy this.’

Marriage: Iman married the rocker in a ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland in April 1992 which was later formalised in a wedding hosted in Florence in June (pictured in June 2010)

Marriage: Iman married the rocker in a ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland in April 1992 which was later formalised in a wedding hosted in Florence in June (pictured in June 2010)