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For the porn star of the same name, see Cindy Crawford (porn star)

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 Crawford and Jennifer Moluf 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 magazine 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 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 (175 cm) tall, has a slim, well-toned figure, with brown hair and eyes. Her measurements are 34"-24"-35". During the 1980s and 1990s, Cindy was among the most popular supermodels, a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, and in fashion campaigns. She was the first modern supermodel to pose nude for Playboy magazine.

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, etc. 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.

Controversy

In August 2006, Crawford told Gala magazine, "I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon. I'm not going to lie to myself, past a certain age, creams work on the texture of your skin but, in order to restore elasticity, all I can really count on is vitamin injections, Botox and collagen. [1] This has thrust her in a position open to litigation from customers of her "Meaningful Beauty" line of beauty products, who could potentially argue that they were misled by her claims of attaining beauty by just the use of the products instead of additional help from cosmetic surgery that she has now publically confirmed.

Personal life

Crawford's marriage to actor Richard Gere lasted from 1991 to 1995. It was heavily rumored that the marriage was a cover for homosexuality on both sides, but this was denied by both. 1 During their marriage, the rumors had been further fueled (and mocked) by Crawford when she appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair in a semiprovocative pose with lesbian singer k.d. lang in August 1993.

According to a statement made by NBA star Shaquille O'Neal on a Los Angeles radio show, O'Neal and Crawford had an affair in the mid-1990s. [2] Crawford's publicists do not deny this claim, but instead claim O'Neal is throwing it in the face of Crawford's current husband.

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, Crawdaddy Inc.

Trivia

• ABC's program 20/20 aired a story on a photo shoot in which Crawford's photos needed two hours of digital editing and airbrushing to her face and body, before the photo was deemed acceptable for publication.

Filmography

• The Simian Line (2000) ... as Sandra
• 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)

Related links

• Pepsi Stuff
• House of Style

External links

• Cindy Crawford's Official Website

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