The Truth About David Bowie's Daughter Alexandria

Iman had an illustrious modeling career, working with brands such as Versace, Calvin Klein, and Donna Karan throughout her 13 years in the industry (via Porter). Both Iman and her husband, David Bowie, were adamant about maintaining their daughter's privacy, while simultaneously carrying on high-profile careers in the music and fashion world.

For Alexandria's 18th birthday, Iman posted a rare picture of her on her Instagram account. Iman told Porter that after doing so, she received several calls and messages from designers and modeling agencies that wanted to recruit Lexi. Iman said the representatives had "called me to say: 'If she wants to, we'd love for her to model for us.'" Iman response was a simple but firm, "No, she doesn't."

The sudden swarm of modeling agencies and designer brand inquiries led to Iman urging Lexi to embrace her privacy from the public eye. "I know why they wanted her to model – it's because she is David Bowie's daughter," Iman said. Iman implied that Lexi may have had some interest in participating in the fashion industry, but eventually decided against it. "Have a life that is private while you can, because one day soon it is going to be public, so enjoy this," she told her daughter.

Alexandria Jones comes from an extremely creative family. Her father, David Bowie, was a world-class musician with a penchant for fashion, and her mother, Iman, modeled for top brands during her career before starting her own cosmetics line. Lexi is a talented illustrator and painter, and shares her gifts on her public Instagram.

Her passion for art inspired her mother to take up painting during lockdown in 2020. "David was a painter; my daughter is a painter. I never painted in my life, so I've taken it up," Iman told Harper's Bazaar.

Lexi's original art can be purchased through her Depop account, where she sells original paintings and upcycled clothing. Her unique style of painting involves distorted faces and abstract proportions of figures. She credited Tim Burton's unique art style as an inspiration for the development of her own artistry in an Instagram post where she gave followers more insight into her process and philosophy. "My meditation is painting, illustrating, and sketching," she wrote. "During these times I feel freed from my mind and am able to convert the pent up negative energy into something positive, something I end up feeling proud of."

Like her mother Iman, Alexandria isn't afraid to stand up for her beliefs. After posting a picture of her in a bathing suit to her Instagram, she received a vulgar DM from a follower. Lexi posted a screenshot of the message to her feed with the caption, "Feels good to love my body after years of hating and disrespecting it. No shame in liking how I look in my cowboy swimsuit, but a shame that you're able to twist it into something so perverted and vulgar." (via People).

Lexi has also demonstrated an adherence to feminist values and intentions in both her poetry and visual artwork. Many of Lexi's illustrations and paintings center on semi-nude women with bodies of all shapes and sizes, promoting a vision of body positivity through her inclusion of all types of women in her work. Her mother, Iman, demonstrated values of inclusion throughout young Lexi's life as the founder of a color-inclusive cosmetics line, IMAN Cosmetics. Before even starting her makeup brand, Iman also used her platform as a supermodel to join forces with Naomi Campbell and Bethann Hardison to put pressure on the fashion industry to include more women of color in runways and advertising. Iman's hard work paid off, demonstrating the value of activism and its potential results (via Porter).

Alexandria Jones posted a cute throwback picture on her Instagram with her half-brother Duncan Jones in August 2021. Duncan is David Bowie's first son from his previous marriage to Angie Bowie, from whom Duncan has been estranged since he was 13 years old (via The Sun). Duncan had elected to break ties with his mother at that point, and he reaffirmed in an interview that he had not had contact with her since. "She was a corrosive person," he said. Duncan began building a stronger relationship with his stepmother, Iman, and half-sister, Lexi. Because of the 30-year age difference between Duncan and Lexi, he said in an interview, "My relationship with her is more like a fun uncle" (via The Sun).

Duncan took to Twitter in 2020 to share that his "favorite thing about having a half-sister is that I get to embarrass her by introducing myself to her cool friends as her 'brother from another mother.'" Porter also reported that Lexi was considering moving to LA, where she could be closer to her brother.

Alexandria Jones was born to David Bowie and Iman, who were 53 and 47, respectively, at the time (via The Guardian). The two were madly in love, and ready to take on parenting again. Both Bowie and Iman had children from previous marriages: Bowie had a son, Duncan Jones, and Iman had a daughter, Zulekha Haywood.

Bowie told Hello! Magazine that he had already begun thinking of potential children's names when he met Iman for the very first time. "My attraction to her was immediate and all-encompassing ... That she would be my wife, in my head, was a done deal." Bowie had favored the name Alexander in particular, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that Iman was on the same page. "I can only ask you to believe that when lman and I talked about names, she suggested that if it was a girl then it should be Alexandria, after the Greco-Egyptian city. She had no idea how close it was to my own choice," he said in his interview with Hello! Magazine. Lexi's middle name, Zahra, was actually almost Iman's name. The Arabic name means "inner light; luminous; fair and beautiful; blossoming; or even shining," Bowie told interviewers.