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Cindy
Crawford was discovered in a Illinois corn field.
The teen beauty was working at her summer job,
detasseling sweet corn, when a local newspaper reporter
snapped her picture.
Positive feedback from that first of many photographs
convinced the enterprising young woman to leave the
world of pollen and rogues (that’s corn talk)
for the world of fashion (and rogues).
Modelling turned out to be a much more lucrative
summer job, and led her, after high school graduation
in 1986, to the bright lights of New York.
Back in Chicago, Crawford had done quite well.
She was, for instance, a finalist in the Elite
Model Management’s Look Of The Year competition
(we can’t help wondering who won!).
New York, though, was a different deal. In New
York she hit model superstardom.
She walked the finest fashion runways, graced
the covers of more than 400 magazines, and advertised
hundreds of products.
And after ten years in a business that worships
extreme youth, the 33 year old Crawford is still the
hottest of properties, earning $6.5 million per year
-- that’s one million more than her nearest peer.
Crawford is known for her mid-western kindness
and courtesy, but also for a willingness to take risks.
In 1988
she was the first supermodel to be “covered”
in Playboy magazine. (Ten years later, in 1998, Crawford
was named one of Playboy’s top ten Sexiest Stars
of the Century).
In 1993 she splintered another taboo by posing
suggestively for a Vanity Fair cover with singer, and
self-declared lesbian, k.d. lang.
In 1995 she posed as a cross-dressing George
Washington (“making politics sexy”) for
the inaugural George magazine cover. In 1999 she posed
nude, and seven months pregnant, for the cover of W
magazine.
A shrewd businesswoman, Crawford’s Crawdaddy
Inc. company investments include shares of Planet Hollywood,
a line of continually popular swimsuit calendars, workout
videos and the book Cindy
Crawford’s Basic Face: A Makeup Workbook.
Crawford was married to actor Richard Gere for
four years, during which time, in 1993, the pair were
named Sexiest Couple Alive by the entertainment media.
Gere and Crawford divorced a year later.
Crawford married restaurateur/nightclub owner
Rande Gerber in 1998.
Gerber and Crawford have a baby son.
The supermodel’s film credits include
appearances in the documentaries, Unzipped
(1995), Catwalk (1995), and Beautopia
(1998), and cameos in The
Secret of My Success (1987) and Sesame
Street: Elmopalooza.
Crawford sees acting in her future, and broke
in with the critically panned
Fair Game (1995).
Her television career has been more successful,
and includes a guest appearance in 3rd
Rock from the Sun (1998), and broadcast journalism
as host of MTV’s House
of Style (1989 - 1995), Later
(1997), and a “sexuality in America” special,
Sex
With Cindy Crawford (1998).
Crawford is recognized, too, as an intelligent
and witty guest on the talk show circuit.
Her child development series, Presley’s
First Year, named for her son and produced
for the Good
Morning America show, has been well received.
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