Cindy Crawford BIOGRAPHY

Cindy Crawford BIOGRAPHY

 

Considered one of the world's most beautiful women, supermodel Cindy Crawford has appeared just about everywhere that advertisements are allowed. Over her unprecedentedly long career, she has hawked everything from haute couture and perfume to soda pop and dairy products, and has made a fortune with her beauty and fitness videos and swimsuit calendars. Crawford also owns a piece of the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain. In 1995, Forbes magazine ranked her as the most highly paid model in the world. Crawford is the first supermodel to pose for Playboy and later risked her career by posing suggestively on the cover of Vanity Fair beside lesbian singer k.d. Lang.
In addition to appearing in television commercials, Crawford spent six years hosting the MTV cable network's House of Style. She is an intelligent, witty woman and a popular talk show guest. As an actress, Crawford occasionally guest stars on television series, as she did in a special 1998 episode of the NBC sitcom Third Rock From the Sun. In 1995, Crawford made a rather inauspicious film debut in the action thriller Fair Game. Despite the film's lack of box-office success, Crawford is still interested in pursuing an acting career.
Crawford is a native of De Kalb, IL, and was discovered as a teenager when a local news photographer took a picture of her while she was detasselling corn. Already an impressive beauty, she left her country job to become a model for the summer. She continued modelling for the next two summers, through the Chicago division of the Elite modelling agency and then decided to go to college. Helped by an academic scholarship (she'd been a straight-A student in high school), Crawford studied chemical engineering at Northwestern University, but shrewdly decided that she'd make more money as a model. For a while, Crawford worked in Chicago, but didn't hit the big time until she moved to New York City in 1986.

Married Cindy Crawford wants guys to flirt with her

Married Cindy Crawford wants guys to flirt with her

Supermodel Cindy Crawford, who is happily married to Rande Gerber, wants men to flirt with her irrespective of her marital status.

"I really don"t get any of those old chat up lines - any at all actually. It"s actually sad and a bit of a shame because it"s nice to flirt," said Crawford, 45, who has two children - Presley, 10, and eight-year-old Kaia.

She recently said her personality has been affected by the ageing process and that she doesn"t believe people find her as attractive as earlier, reports contactmusic.com.

"Age can be daunting, but you can"t stop it. I know 20-year-old guys don"t look at me any more. I don"t feel it like I used to. I remember walking down streets in New York at the height of my modelling career, my hair up, and all the construction guys would go crazy. It"s different now," she said.

Cindy Crawford, the former supermodel

Cindy Crawford, the former supermodel

As one of the first top models to conquer the Western World, along with our own Elle McPhearson, Cynthia Ann Crawford is still as ravishing as she was in her heyday during the early nineties.

Her face was as recognisable as McDonald's golden arches, what with her trademark beauty mole above her lip, and her statuesque appearance (she's almost 5'10" tall) helped her stand out, and strikingly so.
The Crawford story starts on February 20, 1966, in the town of De Kalb, Illinois.
Her American upbringing isn't the happiest of stories - when she was eight years old, her four year old brother, Jeff, died of leukaemia and ever since, Cindy has donated a significant proportion of her earnings to leukaemia research.
Cindy Crawford was a brilliant student, who won a scholarship to study chemical engineering at the North-western University after graduating from De Kalb High School. She never graduated from university after embracing the fashion industry. Interestingly, Cindy scored perfectly on her college calculus exams, too, helping to dispel the myth of all models being air-heads.
Cindy's first brush with the wild world of fashion occurred when she was 16 years of age, when a local newspaper photographer in Illinois asked for a few photos. Since then, she's never looked back, going on to become one of the world's most recognisable faces (and bodies) making millions and millions in the process.

In 1983, Cindy Crawford got to the finals of an Elite Model [Management] Look of the Year contest, and following this her star just kept on rising.
Since then, she's appeared on too many magazine covers to mention, about 600 in total, and was arguably the first top model to pose in Playboy magazine. Of this somewhat controversial photo shoot she was quoted as saying: "When I did Playboy, I got letters from women who didn't consider it feminist to do nude photographs. I thought the whole point of being a feminist was that you got to make your own choices."
 and her love of getting her clothes off didn't wane - in 1997 she again posed nude on the cover of a French magazine (Voici) with Rande Guber.
There were also many rumours in the early 90s that Cindy was bisexual, some even suggesting she had an affair with Christy Turlington. This was because the famous American models were photographed kissing behind the Roxy nightclub in New York in 1991.
A few years later, the rumour mill cranked up another gear as Cindy Crawford appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair shaving K.d. Lang. She is also a gay rights supporter, openly standing by the Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) group.
Anyway, getting back to our timeline (of sorts) Cindy Crawford married Richard Gere on the 12th of December, 1991, by Rev. Wes McPherson at the Little Church of the West, in Las Vegas.
This marriage lasted four years and in 1995 the two high-profile celebrities parted ways. The reason for their split? Nobody knows...
In the early to mid-1990s, Cindy Crawford was earning an estimated $7million a year, had been voted into the upper echelons of numerous 'sexiest' lists and was a household face thanks to her multi-million dollar deals with ABC, MTV, Revlon cosmetics, Pepsi and Blockbuster Video.
In 1998 she wedded night club owner Rande Gerber in 1998 and has since had a baby daughter, Kaya Jordan Gerber.
Today, Cindy Crawford leads a much less hectic life, spending her time in New York and Los Angeles with her family.

Top Fashion Supermodel Cindy Crawford biographyord

Top Fashion Supermodel Cindy Crawford biography

Cynthia Ann Crawford was born February 20, 1966, in De Kalb, Illinois. She was discovered by chance by a newspaper photographer, who noticed then 16-year old Cindy at work during her summer job of detasselling corn and took her a picture of her. The photo and the positive feedback surrounding Cindy's photogenic talents were enough to convince her to quit her day job and take up modelling.
Thanks to two summers of modelling, represented by Elite Model Management in Chicago, the All-American beauty proved to also have brains -- she traded in the glamorous life a model (at least temporarily) to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, on scholarship.

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.
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.
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.
In 2005, Cindy created a beauty product with Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh called Meaningful Beauty for Guthy-Renker.

Campaigns:
Anne Klein II, Bally, Capezio Bags, Cindy Crawford fragrance, Citroen, Dormeuil, EAS AdvantEdge, El Corte Ingles, Ellen Tracy, Enrico Coveri, Escada, Foster Grant, Gap, Gianni Versace Couture, Grosvenor Furs, H, Halston, Herve Leger, Isaac Mizrahi, JH Collectables, Josie, Kathleen Madden, Keds shoes, Laura Biagiotti, Levante, L'Oreal, MCM, Moulinex, North Beach Leather, Omega watches, Pepsi, Pizza Hut Cheezy Crust Pizza, Revlon, Revlon 'Fire & Ice', Sportmax, Swish Jeans, Umberto Ginocchietti, Valentino, Versace, Weight Watchers, Windsmoor