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Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20,
1966, in Dekalb, Illinois) is an American supermodel,
MTV television personality, celebrity endorser, cover
girl, and actress.
Early life: Born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Dan
Crawford and Jennifer Crawford in 1966, Cindy Crawford's
trademark is a visible mole on her face (although most
people refer to it as a "beauty mark"). She is
so closely associated with this physical feature that
she appeared in an advertising campaign for chocolates
featuring commercials wherein she "licked off"
her own mole.
Ironically, the mole was removed from
many of her earlier modeling pictures, including her
first Vogue cover. Her brother died at a young age from
leukemia, and Crawford has made childhood leukemia a
focal point of her charity work, donating proceeds of
her calendars to medical research.
She was discovered by chance by a newspaper
photographer, who noticed then-16-year-old Cindy at work
during her summer job of pollinating corn and took a
picture of her. The photo and the positive feedback she
received were enough to convince her to take up
modeling. She entered the John Casablancas Look of the
Year contest and was the runner up.
Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School as
valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA. She won an academic
scholarship to study chemical engineering at
Northwestern University, which she attended for only one
quarter. She dropped out in order to pursue a full-time
modeling career. After working for photographer Victor
Skrebneski in Chicago, Cindy moved to Manhattan in 1986.
Career: From 1989 to 1995, Crawford was host of
MTV's House of Style. In the mid-1990s Crawford starred
in famous Pepsi and Pepsi Stuff advertising. In 1995
Crawford took her first movie role in Fair Game. Her
performance was panned by critics, and the film was a
financial failure, with expenses of $50 million and $11
million takings at the box office. She has had several
other minor acting jobs since then, none of which have
been commercially or critically successful. The closest
she has come to a commercially successful acting job has
been her series of exercise videos.
Crawford is just over 5 feet 9 inches (177 cm) tall,
with brown hair and eyes. Her measurements are
34"-26"-35". During the 1980s and 1990s,
Cindy was among the most popular supermodels, a
ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and in
fashion campaigns.
In July, 1988, she became the first
modern supermodel to pose nude for Playboy magazine, in
a shoot by photographer Herb Ritts. In October, 1998
Crawford returned to the pages of Playboy for a second,
more revealing nude pictorial. That issue was one of the
magazine's all-time biggest sellers.
She has been featured on the cover of more than 600
magazines worldwide including Vogue, W, People, Harper's
Bazaar, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, and Allure. Cindy also
appeared in many fashion campaigns during her career,
including those for Gianni Versace, Escada, Revlon,Ink .
She has aslo worked for Omega , Maybelline and Clairol
.Of her, famous designer Karl Lagerfeld has said:
"She is a classical beauty and the all-American
dream girl." She was nicknamed "Baby Gia"
when she entered the modeling industry because of her
resemblance to late supermodel, Gia Carangi.
She was ranked number 5 on Playboy's list of the 100
Sexiest Stars of the 20th century. A 1997 Shape magazine
survey of 4,000 picked her as the second (after Demi
Moore) most beautiful woman in the world. In 2002,
Crawford was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People
by People magazine. She continues to provide celebrity
endorsement for a variety of projects and was featured
as #26 in the 2006 Hot 100 issue of Maxim magazine.
Personal life: Crawford's marriage to actor
Richard Gere lasted from 1991 to 1995. Crawford and
current husband Rande Gerber have two children, Presley,
born July 2, 1999, and Kaya, born September 3, 2001.
Crawford gave birth to both her children through natural
home birth. Crawford owns her own production company,
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