- Real Name
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Cynthia Crawford
- Nationality
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American
- Birth Date
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February 20, 1966
- Lives Now
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Los Angeles, CA
- Status
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Cover girl,
Retired (mostly),
Sexy girl,
Supermodel
- Known for
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Hair,
Mole,
Name
- Agencies
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Storm
- Friends
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Yasmeen Ghauri,
Naomi Campbell,
Tatjana Patitz,
Christy Turlington,
Donatella Versace,
Claudia Schiffer,
Linda Evangelista
- Children
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Kaya (Born 9/3/01),
Presley (Born 7/2/99)
- Married
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Richard Gere
(91 - 95, actor),
Rande Gerber
(currently)
- Model Turned
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TV personality (MTV‘s House of Style, 1989),
Activist (skin-care awareness),
Actress (Fair Game, 1995),
fitness host (Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout, 1992),
home décor designer (with Malibu Designs, 2007)
Quoted
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“I'll sometimes dance on a table for my husband and his friends.”
—Vogue.co.uk
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“Fashion is about changing and what‘s new—41-year-old models aren‘t usually on covers, so if I‘d only wanted to model, that would have been a depressing road.”
—New York magazine
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“They wanted me to interview Madonna, but I was too scared. I've seen interviews she's done with women, and I didn't want her to be mean to me.”
—Playboy
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“I think watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.”
—Hello! magazine
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“I would not have become a supermodel in 2009. I look too healthy.”
—AFP
Cindy Crawford's Career Highlights
- 20 FEB, 1966
- Born in Dekalb, Illinois
- 1983
- Local newspaper photographer takes her picture while she’s at work in a cornfield, which encourages her to try modeling
- 1983
- Enters Elite Look of the Year modeling contest, finishes in the top fifteen finalists
- 1985
- Drops out of chemical-engineering studies at Northwestern University to pursue modeling
- 1986
- Moves to New York
- AUG 1986
- Featured on first Vogue cover
- 1987
- Appears in print ad for the Gap
- 1987
- Appears on the covers of British Vogue, French Vogue, and Cosmopolitan
- 1988
- Travels to India on a shoot for British Vogue, photographed by Patrick Demarchelier
- JUL 1988
- Appears nude in Playboy
- 1989
- Hosts MTV’s House of Style
- 1990
- Becomes the face of Halston
- 1991
- Signs cosmetics contract with Revlon Video»
- 1991
- Ellen von Unwerth photographs Crawford with Tatjana Patitz for Italian Vogue
- 12 DEC, 1991
- Marries actor Richard Gere
- 1992
- Tapes a fitness video, Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body Workout
- MAY 1992
- Named one of People magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People
- AUG 1993
- Featured on the now iconic cover of Vanity Fair in a provocative pose with recently outed k.d. lang
- FEB 1994
- Featured in Pirelli calendar
- 1995
- Becomes Pepsi spokesmodel Video»
- 1995
- Appears in the “I’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign for PETA
- 1995
- Named one of People magazine’s best-dressed list
- MAR 1995
- Named the highest-earning model in the world by Forbes, with a reported annual income of $6.5 million
- AUG 1995
- Divorces Richard Gere
- NOV 1995
- Plays a Miami attorney in movie Fair Game, alongside Alec Baldwin Video»
- OCT 1996
- Launches a beauty book, Cindy Crawford's Basic Face: A Makeup Workbook
- 29 MAY, 1998
- Marries Rande Gerber
- JUN 1999
- Appears nude and pregnant on the cover of W magazine
- JUL 1999
- Has child, Presley, with husband Rande Gerber
- SEP 2001
- Has second child, Kaya, with Gerber
- 2002
- Named one of People magazine’s Most Beautiful People
- AUG 2002
- Featured on the cover of French Vogue, photographed by Mario Testino
- FEB 2005
- Appears in British Vogue editorial, photographed by Nick Knight
- DEC 2005
- Featured on the cover of Maxim
- 2006
- Appears in Liz Claiborne ads
- 30 MAY, 2006
- Signs with IMG
- SEP 2006
- Threatens to sue French magazine Gala for affirming that she used Botox
- SEP 2006
- Stirs controversy after letting Kaya pose topless, with a stick-on tattoo on her lower back, for a swimwear-company ad campaign
- 22 OCT, 2006
- Protests with her family against a liquid-natural-gas facility being built off the coast of Malibu
- 1 FEB, 2007
- Launches a new home-décor line with Malibu Designs
- MAR 2007
- Opens SaraBoo Creek, an artsy retail boutique in Illinois
- 15 DEC, 2007
- Surprises a family in Arizona with a house full of her Cindy Crawford Home collection furniture
- JAN 2008
- Featured on the cover of Italian GQ
- APR 2008
- Appears on the cover of French Elle
- 7 MAY, 2008
- Speaks at the DKMS Linked Against Leukemia Gala
- NOV 2008
- Appears in French Vogue editorial, photographed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin
- 2009
- Featured in the spring issue of LOOK Story»
- JUL 2009
- Featured on the cover of Spanish Vogue, photographed by Alix Malka
- SEP 2009
- Appears in Harper's Bazaar editorial, photographed by Peter Lindbergh