Cindy crawford biography and life class

Cindy Crawford

American model (born )

For the Arkansas politician, see Cindy Crawford (politician).

Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, ) is an American model. During the s and s, 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 DeKalb, Illinois, on February 20, ,[2] the daughter of Daniel Kenneth Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker).[3][4] She has two sisters, Chris and Danielle,[5] and a brother, Jeffery, who died of childhood leukemia at age 3.[6]

On the social media, she stated that her family had been in the Combined States for generations and that her ancestry was mostly German, English, and French.[7] She is a descendant of English Puritan settler Thomas Trowbridge, who helped establish the Congregational Church in New Haven.[8] She was raised in the Congregationalist faith and found it "incredible" that religious values "trickled down" to her family.[9] According to official census records, Crawford's paternal great-grandfather David Crawford was of Scottish ancestry from Northern Ireland who settled in Wisconsin.[10][11] Appearing in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? in , she discovered that her ancestors included European nobility and that she was descended from Charlemagne.[3][12]

In her sophomore year at lofty school, she received a ring 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.[13] The photo and positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling.

Initially, she worked with a little agency, which was sold to Elite Model Management shortly after she signed. In , she entered Elite's Look of the Year contest at 17 and made the national finals.[14][15]

Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in as valedictorian.[14][16] 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 and signed with the Elite New York modeling agency.[17]

Career

In , Crawford appeared in the opening credits of the Michael J.

Fox film The Classified of My Success. Three years later, she was featured alongside top models Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell on the cover of the January edition of British Vogue.[19] Crawford and the other four models subsequently appeared in the video for George Michael's hit "Freedom!

'90" later that year. Subsequently, Crawford played the lost love of Jon Bon Jovi in the video for his version of "Please Appear Home For Christmas", "John Taylor" in the video for Duran Duran's "Girl Panic" (featuring supermodels as the band, including Naomi Campbell as Simon Le Bon), and Headmistress in the 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.

She was frequently featured on the cover of multiple fashion and lifestyle magazines, including Vogue, W, People, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Allure.

A partial count in totalled over appearances.[20] Crawford has walked the runway shows for Chanel, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Roberto Cavalli, Michael Kors, Thierry Mugler, Todd Oldham, DKNY, and Valentino.

She grew up in a modest family, with her father working as an electrician and her mother as a nurse. Cindy, along with her two sisters, Chris and Danielle, and her brother Jeff, lived in a warm and peaceful environment. Unfortunately, her brother passed away at the age of three from leukemia. Despite the family's loss, Cindy decided to keep the Crawford mention to honor her father's wishes.

Crawford also appeared in many fashion campaigns during her career, including those for Versace, Calvin Klein, Escada, David Yurman, Oscar De La Renta, Balmain, Hermes, Ellen Tracy, Valentino, Bally, Liz Claiborne, Hervé Leger, Halston, Anne Klein, Isaac Mizrahi, Blumarine, Predict , Ink, Gap, and Revlon.

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

In July , she posed nude for Playboy magazine in a shoot by photographer Herb Ritts.[21] In October , Crawford returned to the pages of Playboy for a second nude pictorial, again taken by Ritts.[22] She was ranked number 5 on Playboy's list of the sexiest stars of the 20th century.

A Shape magazine survey of 4, picked her as the second (after Demi Moore) most beautiful woman in the world. In , Crawford was named one of the 50 most beautiful people by People magazine. In her forties, she claimed No. 26 in the Hot issue of Maxim magazine.[23] She was named No.

3 on VH1's 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s and was named one of the " Hottest Women of All-Time" by Men's Health.[24]

The red Versace dress she wore to the 63rd Academy Awards in had a major influence on fashion, and many copies and fakes of the dress were produced.[25][26][27] In , Crawford—through GoodTimes Abode 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 thriving and led to two equally lucrative followups, Cindy Crawford: The Next Challenge in (again with Radu) and Cindy Crawford: A New Dimension in ; the latter, made with fitness specialist Kathy Kaehler and produced not long after Crawford gave birth to her first child, was aimed at new mothers getting back into shape.

In , Crawford also made a shorter fitness video aimed at children, Mini-Muscles with Cindy Crawford and the Fit-wits, an animated movie featuring the voices of Crawford (who also appears at the beginning in live action), Radu and Kobe Bryant.

The inaugural issue of George, a concise lived political magazine in the s, featured Crawford dressed love George Washington on the cover. In , the American Culture of Magazine Editors listed it as the 22nd best magazine cover of the last 40 years.[28]

Crawford has also been on TV and in films.

From to , Crawford was host and executive producer of MTV's House of Style. In the early s, Crawford starred in the Pepsi and Pepsi Stuff advertising.[29][30] In , she appeared in Pepsi's Super Bowl commercial,[31] aired during Super Bowl XXVI.

In , Pepsi released a remake of the commercial, also featuring Crawford.[31] In , Crawford broke into movies as the female lead in the production Fair Game. Her performance was panned by critics—Leonard Maltin commented "In her acting debut, supermodel Crawford makes a good jogger."[32] The film was also a financial failure, with expenses of $50 million and $11 million takings at the box office.

In , she costarred as part of an ensemble cast in The Simian Line. Again the film was not thriving or critically acclaimed, but Crawford's acting was not criticized. She has had many lesser roles guest starring on TV and as supporting roles, often playing herself.

For example, in , she was one of the celebrities (along with Victoria Silvstedt, Anna Falchi and Megan Gale) playing themselves in the Italian comedy Body Guards – Guardie del corpo. In the s, Carol Shaw, her make-up musician, named a lipstick color after Crawford as a part of the Lorac Cosmetics lip-wear line.[33]

In the late s, 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 recital of the Double Sawing illusion in which both women were sawn in half and then reassembled with their lower halves swapped.[34]

After modeling

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

In , Crawford created a line of beauty products with Jean-Louis Sebagh called Meaningful Beauty for Guthy-Renker.[35] Crawford has stated that she regularly receives certain cosmetic procedures, including Botox and vitamin injections.

She first saw a plastic surgeon at the age of [36]

In , Crawford launched a new line of furniture under the "Cindy Crawford Residence 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.[37] She also has a furniture line with Rooms to Go, Raymour & Flanigan and launched a home goods line with J.

C. Penney in late [38]

In , Crawford was one of many celebrities to be photographed by Deborah Anderson for the coffee table book Room 23, produced by philanthropist Diana Jenkins.

In addition to appearing in the guide, Crawford was the cover model and wrote the dedication.[39]Becoming, a book about Crawford's life and career co-written by Crawford and Katherine O'Leary, was published in September [40]

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 issue of Vogue Paris.[41] In , she became a spokesperson for Acqua Minerale San Benedetto in Italy.[42] In September , Crawford, along with models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen and Carla Bruni, closed the Versace spring/summer fashion show, which was an homage to the late Gianni Versace.[43]

In January , 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.[44][45]

Crawford was featured in an upcoming four-part Apple TV+docuseries titled The Super Models, which premiered on September 20, The series also featured Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington, and Linda Evangelista and was directed by Roger Ross Williams and Larissa Bills.[46]

Personal life

Crawford was married to star Richard Gere from until their divorce in She married businessman and former model Rande Gerber on May 29, [47] They have two children, son Presley Walker Gerber (born July 2, )[48] and daughter Kaia Jordan Gerber (born September 3, ),[2][49][50]

In August , the couple sold their home in Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, for a reported $ million.[51]

Style and appearance

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Her measurements are 34––[52] Her logo is a mole (or "beauty mark") above her upper lip. She is so closely linked with this physical feature that she appeared in an Australian advertising campaign for flavoured milk featuring a TV commercial wherein she "licked off" her possess mole.[53] Her resemblance to model Gia Carangi led her to being known as "Baby Gia".[54][55]

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 leukemia.

Since becoming a model, Crawford has made childhood leukemia a focal point of her charity work, donating proceeds of her calendars to medical research.[56] Crawford has been a long-time supporter of the pediatric oncology program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where Jeff was treated, stating that she believes he received the best protect possible.[57] She is also an honorary board member of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.[58]

In , she became an official supporter of the Ronald McDonald Residence Charities and is a member of their celebrity board, called the Friends of RMHC.[59] Crawford is on the honorary committee of the California Wildlife Center.[60]

In , Cindy Crawford recreated her iconic Pepsi ad with photographer David Yarrow to help hoist funds for the American family Children's Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin where her brother, Jeff, was treated for leukemia.[61]

Political endorsements

In , Crawford endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States.[62] Despite reports, Crawford denied endorsing Mitt Romney for the election.[63]

Filmography

Films

Videos

Fitness videos

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

Music videos

Television

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