| Cindy
Crawford |
|
| Birth name |
Cynthia Ann Crawford |
| Date of birth |
February 20 1966 (1966--) (age 41) |
| Place of birth |
DeKalb, Illinois, U.S. |
| Height |
ft in ( m) |
| Hair color |
brown |
| Eye color |
brown |
| Measurements |
34B"-26"-35" (86-66-89 cm) |
| Weight |
130 lbs (59 kg) |
| Dress size |
8 (US), 38 (EU) |
| Shoe size |
9 (US) |
| Spouse(s) |
Richard Gere (1991-1995)
Rande Gerber (1998-present) |
| Official web
site |
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 John "Dan" Crawford and Jennifer Sue Walker 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. During
the beginning of her career, 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".[1] 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.[citation needed]
She has been featured on the cover of many magazines, 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 also
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 the 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.
In 2005, Cindy created a beauty product with Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh called Meaningful Beauty for Guthy-Renker.
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. The family resides in Los Angeles,
California.
Crawford owns her own production company, Crawdaddy Inc.
Filmography
- The Tyra Banks Show (2007)
- "Sunrise, Australia" (2007)
- The Simian Line (2000) ... as Sandra
- Bodyguards (2000) ... as herself
- Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension (2000)
- The Secret World of... Supermodels (1998)
- Beautopia (1998)
- Sesame Street: Elmopalooza! (1998)
- 54 (1998) ... as VIP Patron
- Frasier: Halloween (1997)
- Fair Game (1995) ... as Kate McQueen
- Catwalk (1995)
- Unzipped (1995)
- Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge Workout (1993)
- Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout (1992)
References
- ^ Profile of Cindy Crawford.
Retrieved on 2007-04-29.
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