Jodie Elizabeth Kidd (born 25 September 1978) is an English fashion model and television personality.
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Early life
Named after Jodie Foster, Kidd was born in 1978 and is the daughter of the businessman and former showjumper Johnny Kidd and his wife Wendy Madeleine, one of the three daughters of Sir John Rowland Hodge, 2nd Baronet, who runs the Holders Festival on Barbados. She is the paternal granddaughter of The Honourable Janet Gladys Aitken whose father was the Canadian press baron Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook. Kidd's maternal aunt is the model Vicki Hodge.
Jodie was a showjumper as a child and attended St Michael's School, Burton Park, Petworth, West Sussex. Kidd has two siblings. Her elder sister, Jemma Kidd (born 1974), married Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, son of the current Duke of Wellington, in June 2005. Kidd's brother, Jack Kidd (born 1973) is a polo player. Kidd also has a half-brother, the entrepreneur Nick D'Arcy Whiting (born 1962), and a half-sister, Debbie Parris (born 1964).
