1990s supermodels: what Cindy Crawford regrets at 51

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In the 1990s. girls all over the world wanted to be like her, and men admired her beauty. Cindy Crawford was one of the most famous and successful supermodels of the late twentieth century. In 2000, she stopped going out on the catwalk, but she still appears on the covers of glossy publications - even at 51, she has a magnificent figure and a blooming appearance. At her age, she only regrets that she missed the chances that fate gave her.

Cynthia Ann Crawford was born in a provincial American town in the family of a nurse and an electrician. Her photo got into the local weekly due to a fluke: a journalist came to the farm where she worked during the summer holidays to report on the harvest. A famous photographer later drew attention to this picture, and the girl was invited to a photo session. And at the age of 17 in New York, she signed a contract with one of the largest modeling agencies.

At first, photographers saw only one flaw in her appearance - a mole above her upper lip, and they tried to hide it in the first pictures for the covers, and later this mole became her "trademark." Cindy Crawford was compared by many to one of the first supermodels Gia Carangi, but the similarity was only external: unlike her predecessor, Cindy was never fond of parties, alcohol and drugs and did not disrupt filming.

She was the face of well-known cosmetic companies, collaborated with the Fashion houses of Versace and Escada, she has about 600 covers of glossy magazines on her account. In 1995, Cindy Crawford became the highest paid supermodel. Karl Lagerfeld considered her beauty to be classic, she took 5th place in the rating of "100 Sexiest Celebrities of the 20th Century".

At 51, she does not go to the catwalk, but continues to appear for magazine covers and in commercials. Both in the profession and in her personal life, everything turned out very well for her. But there were moments in her biography that she still regrets. So, now the model admits that she misbehaved in her first marriage with actor Richard Gere, which is why this union lasted only 4 years. Then she tried to pretend that she shared his interests, although in fact she did not understand either his hobby for baseball or practicing meditation. Because of this, the husband did not perceive her as an independent unit.

She realized her mistakes only in her second marriage with the owner of a restaurant chain, Randy Gerber. “I think the secret of our marital longevity is precisely that the relationship began with friendship. With him, it never even occurred to me to share all his interests or hide my own. The first husband was never my friend, did not perceive me as an equal. How else, because I was a naive provincial girl, and he was Richard Gere himself!”, The model admits.

Cindy Crawford also regrets the missed opportunities that opened up before her in her younger years: “In my youth, it was not possible to say the word“no”as often as I did. Maybe I missed the interesting and promising chances that I was given in my youth. Now the time is gone, nothing can be returned."

In her youth, she did not spend time at social events and parties, did not play novels with billionaires who showed her attention, did not make scandals and preferred reading to dancing. Although this is hardly worth regretting.

But her predecessor Cindy Crawford, with whom she was so often compared, had a completely different life. Gia in life and in movies: tragic story of one of the first supermodels