Naomi Watts gets fashion advice from her 17-year-old daughter, Kai Schreiber, and the feedback is not limited to polite encouragement. The actor said Kai regularly offers “solicited or unsolicited” opinions on what she wears.
“She’s really got a keen eye for style and the confidence to pull it off as well,” Watts told E! News at a launch event for her Stripes Beauty brand. “She often weighs in, literally asking if I have a second option. She’ll give her opinion and detailed notes.”
That eye for clothing now comes with professional experience. Kai, whose father is actor Liev Schreiber, made her runway debut at Paris Fashion Week in March 2025, when she was 16.
“She’s very cool,” Watts said. “Much cooler than I was at that age.”
Kai approved her mother’s New York look
Watts, 58, did manage to secure her daughter’s approval for the sheer black lace dress she wore to the New York City event. No emergency second outfit was required.
“This dress, she was very much in favor of right away,” Watts said. “She wants to own this dress afterward.”
The advice also travels in the opposite direction. Before Kai’s modeling debut, Watts encouraged her to understand why she wanted to enter an industry where steady work is hardly guaranteed.
“Know why you’re there,” Watts recalled telling her. “You better love it because being self-employed is not the easiest thing. There’s no guarantee. We all have a pretty good work ethic in my family. So, I trust it’s going to go well.”
Watts, who also shares 19-year-old son Sasha Schreiber with Liev Schreiber, said Kai has approached modeling seriously. Mother and daughter later worked together on Simkhai’s fall 2026 campaign.
“She’s very professional,” Watts said. “She loves what she does and is obsessed with fashion. It was really lovely. Any time I get to spend with my teenage kids is a win.”
Watts married actor Billy Crudup in 2023.
Watts is also expanding Stripes Beauty
The event doubled as the launch of Stripes Beauty’s Rite of Passion arousal gummies. The company develops products aimed at people experiencing perimenopause and menopause, including changes affecting sexual wellness.
“That’s one of the things that happens that is very real for women,” Watts said. “Sex can become complicated. You have to put a little more organization and thinking into it, and obviously communication. It can be something there’s still a lot of shame around.”
She admitted that she initially felt uneasy about addressing intimate health through the brand, despite those concerns being central to many customers’ experiences.
“Even for me, when I was creating this company, I was nervous about getting too much into the intimate parts of the things because it is embarrassing,” she said. Watts described acknowledging that anxiety and asking for help as life-changing.
According to Watts, customer demand prompted Stripes Beauty to develop the gummy. Women had told the company that sexual health difficulties were affecting their confidence, relationships, sleep and anxiety levels.
“We listened to the ladies out there,” she said. “They were suffering through this and talking about how it breaks down your confidence. It breaks down relationships, it breaks down sleep, and creates anxiety and all of those things. It was important to us.”
Watts said the wider purpose of Stripes Beauty is to make discussions about ageing and menopause less uncomfortable, while leaving personal choices firmly with the individual.
“Part of the whole messaging behind Stripes Beauty is to embrace where you’re at, and I try to do that,” she said. “It’s not always a bed of roses, but I do my best.”
She added: “No judgment on anyone who wants to do whatever they want.”
