Cindy Crawford

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Cindy Crawford
Crawford in 2015
Born
Cynthia Ann Crawford

(1966-02-20) February 20, 1966 (age 58)
DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.
Alma materNorthwestern University
Occupations
  • Model
  • actress
  • television personality
Years active1983−present
Spouses
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​
(m. 1991; div. 1995)​
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(m. 1998)​
Children2, including Kaia Gerber
Modeling information
Height5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (1.77 m)[1]
Hair colorBrown[1]
Eye colorBrown[1]
AgencyStorm Management (London)
Websitecindy.com

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was among the most popular supermodels and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers and runways, as well as fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into acting and business ventures.

Early life

Crawford was born in

Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013, she discovered that her ancestors included European nobility and that she was descended from Charlemagne.[12][13]

In her sophomore year at high school, she received a call from a local clothing store regarding modeling work, only to discover it was a prank by two of her classmates. However, the following year, another store hired a number of high school girls, including Crawford, to work for them (including a fashion shoot). In her junior year, local photographer Roger Legel, whose duties included photographing a different college girl to be that week's coed in the DeKalb Nite Weekly, asked to take her picture for the publication; the result was Crawford's first cover.[14] The photo and positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. Initially, she worked with a small agency, which was sold to Elite Model Management shortly after she signed. In 1983, she entered Elite's Look of the Year contest at 17 and made the national finals.[15][16]

Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in 1984 as valedictorian.[15][17] She earned an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she attended for only one quarter before dropping out to pursue a full-time modeling career. After working for photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago, she moved to New York City in 1986 and signed with the Elite New York modeling agency.[18][19]

Career

In 1987, Crawford appeared in the opening credits of the

Please Come Home For Christmas", "John Taylor" in the 2011 video for Duran Duran's "Girl Panic" (featuring supermodels as the band, including Naomi Campbell as Simon Le Bon), and Headmistress in the 2015 video for Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" as part of a cast including Jessica Alba, Selena Gomez, and fellow models Lily Aldridge, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Martha Hunt and Karlie Kloss.

Crawford in 1995

She was frequently featured on the cover of multiple fashion and lifestyle magazines, including

Guess, Ink, Gap, and Revlon. She has also worked for Omega, Maybelline, Clairol, Pepsi, and Chilean retail stores Ripley (partner of Macy's
).

In July 1988, she posed nude for

Men's Health.[25]

The

GoodTimes Home Video and her company Crawdaddy Productions—made an exercise video with Radu Teodorescu named Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body; although criticised by some[who?] for being unsafe,[citation needed] it was hugely successful and led to two equally lucrative followups, Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge in 1993 (again with Radu) and Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension in 2000; the latter, made with fitness expert Kathy Kaehler and produced not long after Crawford gave birth to her first child, was aimed at new mothers getting back into shape. In 2001, Crawford also made a shorter fitness video aimed at children, Mini-Muscles with Cindy Crawford and the Fit-wits, an animated production featuring the voices of Crawford (who also appears at the beginning in live action), Radu and Kobe Bryant
.

The inaugural issue of George, a short lived political magazine in the 1990s, featured Crawford dressed like George Washington on the cover. In 2005, the American Society of Magazine Editors listed it as the 22nd best magazine cover of the last 40 years.[29]

Crawford has also been on TV and in films. From 1989 to 1995, Crawford was host and executive producer of

Body Guards – Guardie del corpo. In the 1990s, Carol Shaw, her make-up artist, named a lipstick color after Crawford as a part of the Lorac Cosmetics lip-wear line.[34]

In the late 1990s, she made a number of appearances in magician David Copperfield's stage shows, standing in for her fellow supermodel Claudia Schiffer as Copperfield's guest assistant. During these appearances, she took part in a number of different illusions including being levitated, guillotined, and sawn in half in Copperfield's Clearly Impossible illusion. On a number of occasions, she joined Copperfield and Schiffer in a performance of the Double Sawing illusion in which both women were sawn in half and then reassembled with their lower halves swapped.[35]

After modeling

Crawford quit full-time modeling in 2000 and now appears only occasionally in fashion

plastic surgeon at the age of 29.[37]

In 2005, Crawford launched a new line of furniture under the "Cindy Crawford Home Collection" name. The collection is manufactured by HM Richards Inc. She assisted in the creation of the line by consulting on the features, colors, or styles that fit the needs of families or reflected her own tastes.

J. C. Penney in late 2009.[39]

Crawford at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival

In 2009, Crawford was one of many celebrities to be photographed by

Diana Jenkins. In addition to appearing in the book, Crawford was the cover model and wrote the dedication.[40] Becoming, a book about Crawford's life and career co-written by Crawford and Katherine O'Leary, was published in September 2015.[41]

Crawford appeared on the US version of

Lipsync Battle reenacting her performance in the bathtub from the George Michael music for "Freedom! '90", performed by actor Zachary Quinto
.

Crawford and her daughter Kaia appeared together on the cover of the April 2016 issue of Vogue Paris.[42] In 2016, she became a spokesperson for Acqua Minerale San Benedetto in Italy.[43] In September 2017, Crawford, along with models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen and Carla Bruni, closed the Versace spring/summer 2018 fashion show, which was an homage to the late Gianni Versace.[44]

In January 2019, Crawford, along with her husband Rande Gerber, Michael Meldman, Jeff Shell, and Jay Sures announced they would purchase the Hollywood deli, Nate 'n Al, to keep its doors open after three generations of family ownership.[45][46]

Crawford was featured in an upcoming four-part Apple TV+ docuseries titled The Super Models, which premiered on September 20, 2023. The series also featured Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista and was directed by Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills.[47]

Personal life

Crawford was married to actor Richard Gere from 1991 until their divorce in 1995. She married businessman and former model Rande Gerber on May 29, 1998.[48] They have two children, son Presley Walker Gerber (born July 2, 1999)[49] and daughter Kaia Jordan Gerber (born September 3, 2001),[2][50] the latter of whom has had a successful modeling career.[51]

In August 2021, the couple sold their home in

Beverly Hills, for a reported $13.5 million.[52]

Style and appearance

Crawford is 5 feet 9+1⁄2 inches (1.77 m) tall with brown hair and eyes. Her measurements are 34–25.5–36.

mole (or "beauty mark") above her upper lip. She is so closely associated with this physical feature that she appeared in an Australian advertising campaign for flavoured milk featuring a TV commercial wherein she "licked off" her own mole.[54] Her resemblance to model Gia Carangi led her to being known as "Baby Gia".[55][56]

Advocacy and charity work

When Crawford was 10 years old, her three-year-old brother Jeff—whom she continues to praise as "the fourth most influential person in [her] life"—died of

pediatric oncology program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where Jeff was treated, stating that she believes he received the best care possible.[58] She is also an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.[59]

In 2007, she became an official supporter of the Ronald McDonald House Charities and is a member of their celebrity board, called the Friends of RMHC.[60] Crawford is on the honorary committee of the California Wildlife Center.[61]

In 2021, Cindy Crawford recreated her iconic Pepsi ad with photographer David Yarrow to help raise funds for the

American family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin where her brother, Jeff, was treated for leukemia.[62]

Political endorsements

In 2008, Crawford endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.[63] Despite reports, Crawford denied endorsing Mitt Romney for the 2012 election.[64]

Filmography

Films

Year Title Role
1987 The Secret of My Success Model in opening montage, uncredited
1995 Unzipped Herself
Catwalk Herself
Fair Game Kate McQueen
1998 54 VIP Patron
Beautopia Herself
2000
Body Guards – Guardie del corpo
 		Herself and her double
2001 The Simian Line Sandra

Videos

Fitness videos

Year Title
1992 Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout
1993 Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge Workout
2000 Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension
2001 Mini-Muscles with Cindy Crawford and the Fit-wits

Music videos

Year Title Artist Notes
1990 "Freedom! '90" George Michael
1991 "Voices That Care" Voices That Care Part of the choir
1994 "Please Come Home for Christmas" Jon Bon Jovi As Jon Bon Jovi's girlfriend
2011 "Girl Panic!" Duran Duran As John Taylor
2015 "Bad Blood" Taylor Swift As Headmistress
2023 “One Margarita (Saucy Remix)” That Chick Angel As Herself, recreating her 1992 Pepsi ad [65]

Television

Year Title Role Notes
1989–1995 MTV's House of Style Host
1996 Muppets Tonight Herself Episode: "
Episode 5
"
1997 Frasier Dorothy (voice only) Episode:
"Halloween"
1998 3rd Rock from the Sun Masha, one of the invading Venusians Episode: "36! 24! 36! Dick!"
Elmopalooza Herself Cameo
The Secret World of... Supermodels June 16, 1999

The Man Show “Bathroom Talk, with Cindy Crawford”.

Sex with Cindy Crawford Host Television special
2002 According to Jim Gretchen Saunders, manager of a car dealership Episode: "Cars & Chicks"
2004
Headliners and Legends: Cindy Crawford
2007 Sunrise
2009 Wizards of Waverly Place Bibi Rockford[66] Episode: "Fashion Week"
2013
Who Do You Think You Are?
 		Herself Season 4, Episode 6
2015 Cougar Town Herself Episode:
"Yer So Bad"
The Hospital in the Sky Herself Narrator
2016 Lip Sync Battle Herself Episode: "
Zoe Saldana vs. Zachary Quinto
"
2019 BoJack Horseman Cindy Crawfish Episode: "A Horse Walks into Rehab"
2021 Friends: The Reunion Herself Television special
2022 Pepsi, Where's My Jet? Herself
2023 The Super Models Herself Also executive producer

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