Miranda Kerr, Evan Spiegel Gift $550 Million in Debt Relief

The couple are working with an organization called Undue Medical Debt to disburse $550 million to more than 261,000 Californians in ten counties.

Juliette Fairley

Published: 6/26/2026, 2:56:09 PM EDT

Miranda Kerr, Evan Spiegel Gift $550 Million in Debt Relief — Snapchat co-founders Bobby Murphy (L) and CEO Evan Spiegel ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange as the company celebrates its IPO on March 2, 2017. (Richard Drew/AP Photo)

Actress Miranda Kerr and her husband, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, announced a non-profit partnership to relieve half a billion dollars in unpaid medical debt for more than 261,000 Californians.

The couple is working with an organization called Undue Medical Debt to disburse $550 million.

"When someone you love is sick, all you wanna do is focus on helping them get better," Kerr and Spiegel said in a June 25 Instagram video. "That's why we wanted to support this effort and help relieve medical debt so families can focus on caring for their loved ones and really supporting their healings."

Some 40,369 people in San Diego County will have $99,026,313 paid off, 35,486 Riverside County residents will have $69,485,215 paid, 32,034 San Bernadino County residents will have $56,508,865 paid, 16,158 San Joaquin County residents will have $45,353,564 paid off, 17,466 Los Angeles County residents will have $26,785,085 paid off. Residents of Stanislaus County, Monterey County, San Francisco County, Sonoma County, and Alameda County will also benefit.

“The scale of this gift to Californians is truly astonishing, unburdening over a quarter million families of over half a billion dollars of un-payable medical debt,” Undue Medical Debt president and CEO Allison Sesso said in a June 25 statement. “We’re so grateful that Evan Spiegel and Miranda Kerr share our belief that no one should go bankrupt because of a cancer diagnosis and no family should have to choose between insulin and groceries.”

Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy, according to an American Public Health Association report and the National Library of Medicine, which found that people with medical debt are three times more likely to struggle with issues like depression and anxiety.

In the United States, 1 in 4 adults are in medical debt; which Sesso notes is a growing crisis that undermines health care access, economic well-being, and mental health.

“As a nonprofit leveraging cutting-edge, proprietary technology to buy and erase medical debt at scale, our model addresses one of the main barriers to accessing care, which impacts families from small rural towns to Silicon Valley,” Sesso added. “We so appreciate this incredible support to remove these debts of necessity for good.”

Eligible individuals need not navigate complex bureaucracy to receive financial aid or fill out any paperwork.

Instead, Kerr and Spiegel said in their video that qualifying families will be notified in mid-July by mail.

“We wanted to share this directly because if you happen to receive a letter in the mail, then you know your medical debt has been given and you should know it’s real,” Kerr said.

In addition to the direct debt relief, the couple stated they hope the video would raise awareness about Undue Medical Debt’s broader mission.

Many people have never heard of Undue Medical Debt, according to Kerr.

“So if this resonates with you, we'd encourage you to learn more about Undue Medical Debt and consider supporting their work,” Spiegel added.

Undue Medical Debt is a national nonprofit that has erased over $40 billion of burdensome medical debt in all 50 states to date.