Cindy Crawford has a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter. She (along with so many others) has a memoir coming out called Becoming, which is geared towards helping women of all ages develop a positive self image. She talks about nudity, empowerment, and parenting in the book.
This memoir could be a good read. I feel like Cindy has seen some stuff throughout her decades on the runway, and I’d love to hear her dish a bit. She’s not doing it yet though (give her time). These excerpts are all about appearances and aging. Cindy says she avoids magnifying mirrors if at all possible, which is how she copes with growing older. I think Cindy has had some work done over the years (she looked different for awhile in 2012, but things have settled). Little stuff here and there, but she still looks like Cindy Crawford. She talks about her famous mole here and how it helped launch her career:
On cosmetic procedures: “If you can change it, do. But if you can’t, learn to accept it. I kept my mole when I was in high school and that was a big choice. And then look it ended up being something that made people remember me. So I guess I try to live by that. It’s like, if I can change something if I’m really unhappy with something, and I can change it if it’s within my power, but a lot of times it’s not.”
How she feels about plastic surgery: “I don’t know. It’s just personal. I don’t judge. Every woman feels pressure to look a certain way, and I think being a model and being in the public eye, in some ways, you’re more aware of it, and you’re more judged by it. It’s intimidating. Even for me, it’s like you know I haven’t even turned 50 yet, and even writing this book and everything, it feels like, oh my god. It’s such a benchmark or whatever … I’ve been getting 50 for the last three years, so I’m like geez.”
On the new models: “I’m a little bit jealous that they have social media, because I think that through the use of social media, they are better able to help shape their own image. I think my generation of models, we were perceived the way we were – you know – through our pictures. On social media, you can create or just illuminate your own image, and I think some of the young models are really good at it. I think that more and more social media presence is what will helps you start your own clothing line or campaign or end up on a cover of a magazine.”
She still feels pretty solid as a model: “No one is better at Cindy Crawford than Cindy Crawford.”
[From Hollywood Reporter]
Well, Cindy did enormously well for herself even without the aid of social media. She hosted MTV’s House of Style, which was the precise point when she volleyed into supermodel territory. These days, it’s easier to publicize yourself through Instagram (just ask Kendall Jenner and Kate Upton) and make yourself known with less industry red tape. Can you imagine if Linda Evangelista, Kate Moss, Tyra Banks, and Cindy all had the advantage of social media back in the day? This would be a sight to see, but there would also be a loss of mystique.
Photos courtesy of WENN
She looks great. Cara Delewhatever and the rest of today’s models can’t compare.
Yes she does look great. I miss the 90’s SUPERModels.
It is amazing that the modern day models have Social Media. It makes PR for them easier, but it’s a mixed blessing, because it’s hard to keep the bad stuff hidden too.
Cara isn’t her contemporary. More like Gisele. Models really aren’t celebs as they were when she was popular. The times they are a changing……
I know Cara isn’t her contemporary. Gisele isn’t really either – she arrived at the end of the nineties, after Cindy/Naomi/Linda had been displaced by the favor towards “heroin chic.” Gisele was a return to the early ’90s look, but she was certainly next generation from Cindy.
My point was that contemporary “supermodels” don’t compare with those of the 1990s.
Agreed. Have you seen Kate Mose’s face? Eek: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3248396/As-years-smoking-drinking-sunbathing-toll-Kate-Moss-experts-reveal-s-proof-end-face-deserve.html
Jesus, this article is nasty.
Daily Mail commenters tend to be the worst, but the generally negative response they had to the article is right on.
Kate is still a beautiful woman wrinkles and all. Gorgeous bone structure. That article is hateful. I admire Kate for being true to herself and not having an unrecognizable face full of fillers. Yes, she uncompromisingly smokes, tans and parties – good for her; she lives her life how she wants too. We have lost sight of what normal aging is and that article comparing her to 20 year old Cara is sickening. Might she have looked better now with less of a hedonistic lifestyle? Probably so, but I don’t think she gives a fig at the moment. There is nothing “eek” about her lovely, natural, moveable face.
Kate Moss has always been extremely photogenic, but not so pretty in real life. Her accent, mannerisms, and teeth are very lower class.
I don’t necessary think women need to get fillers and I haven’t (being almost 40 myself) but I do believe in taking care of my skin. I say “eek” because all the crap she has done over the years really shows up on her face in a terrible way.
That was a horrible article. Of course she no longer looks like a 20 yr old. And, ladysussex, what exactly is not “pretty” about her accent. Really? Should she change her accent to please the snobs?
I love Kate Moss and think her teeth give her wonderful character. An old boyfriend of mine met her at a random party once and said she was very sweet to him. She seems to enjoy her life and that’s what makes her so beautiful. What a nasty article!
I always wonder what Cindy Crawford would look like if she hadn’t messed with her face.
She used botox for years until she finally admitted that her seemingly ageless face wasn’t due to the creams she was shilling.
I think the year the face work became obvious was the year she did something around her eyes in addition to the regular botox.
Her face changed so drastically that year.
When I see her pictures now, I only see her new face. Her old face is gone.
Ditto Elle MacPherson.
You mean those Meaningful Beauty commercials that I wake up to at 3 am are all bullsh!t?! What??!?? My life is a lie. Excuse me while I reevaluate all my priories. Next you’re going to tell me that Wen Haircare is a scam…
Shambles, i’m from a more innocent age. We actually believed it when commercials told us w could have a wrinkle free, endlessly dewy skin aging process or our hair would magically thicken to triple it’s thickness by using a magic shampoo + conditioner set. LOL
….but seriously, Cindy Crawford had a best selling beauty cream range that she credited with her flawless dewy face until she came clean about the botox. I’m surprised she’s still brazenly selling magic creams.
Lak, color me naive, but I wanted to believe in WEN so badly. I always want to believe the infomercials. Then I did some googling and discovered that it makes your hair slimy and people have had to change banks just to stop being charged for product they never asked for. Guthy Renker (who also backs Cindy’s line of lie-creams) is the devil.
I don’t know where this will appear, but it is a response to Shambles. In small defense of WEN, I will say I use it and it does work FOR ME. My hair doesn’t look like it does in advertising because I don’t have Chaz and his team at my beck and call to make it look like that. IF, and that is a big IF, you want to try it, buy it from QVC on easy pay. And buy it in a kit of three or four different scents. This way, if you try it and don’t like it, you can send it back and aren’t out the money. Disclosure – I DON’T work for QVC and I definitely don’t get my WEN for free.
@Shambles: I’ve heard good stuff about Perfect Cleansing Cream though I cannot vouch for it.
Dr. Jean Sebagh has his own skincare line that’s freak expensive. Personally, I stick with Retinol and sunscreen. Working great so far!
As some of you know, Cindy Crawford is my BFF (translation I hung out in the same lobby lounge at an airport with her last year) and I can tell you, in person her face looks even more messed with than in pictures. She definitely has shades of L.A. cat face. It’s sad.
On a positive note, her body is slamming, her clothes are great and her hair is glorious.
Right here with you. I sat, mesmerized, staring at Cindy’s face in the thumbnail on the front page for a good three minutes trying to find something – anything! – on her face that seemed familiar. Finally, I settled on the mole. So good choice keeping it, Cindy. It’s still recognizable long after you no longer are. Congrats.
At this point, everyone is preaching the same message. It is important to talk about aging (as if we had a choice), but the interviews and memoirs sound the same, almost like celebs unanimously agreed to talk about the same thing.
She was so gorgeous, she wouldn’t have needed social media to become famous! None the new models have the presence or looks of the 90’s supers so they need all the help they can get…
Who needs social media when you have informercials on every cable station in the wee hours of the morning instructing us all on how to be as beautiful as she thinks she is. Model tip! Cloying.
I don’t even really put Giselle in the league of the Supermodels of the 90’s even though I know she is put in that category and she is the best selling, highest paid.
Those 90’s ladies had personality along with their looks and they were so awesome. I just loved buying every magazine they were on.
It’s a whole different world now than when Cindy, Elle, Linda, Janice and the rest of them were clubbing with Warhol. The girls today seem younger, but probably aren’t. Every generation has their own thing. My mom liked Twiggy…with her skinny little self. I liked Kate Moss, especially when she was the badass dating Johnny Depp…
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe I’m just old, but the models of today do nothing for me and I can’t really wrap my head around the fact that Kendell Jenner is considered a supermodel. Beauty is subjective tho.
It still crushes my soul a tiny bit that my beloved Estée Lauder is using Kendall. I’ve been less interested in them since then.
Not to mention that she was also very smart and even educated. Although she dropped out of college, she started in a tough program at Northwestern, and actually earned her way into the program. I think the stability and education of her youth helped her have a loooong and diverse career.
Arghh!!! The educated rumor again!!. She applied & was accepted at Northwestern which is a feat. Congrats. She likes to say she was in Chemical Engineering. She wasn’t. She might have wanted to go that route BUT she dropped out after a semester. Engineering students don’t declare specifics in their first semester freshman year. She is lovely & has amazing hair & was truly a model during the reign of THE Supermodels. She is known w/the likes of Linda, Christy, Naomi. One name is all that is needed & you know who she is. That is more than enough!!
She was brilliant at marketing herself.. However she is not “educated” in the manner she wants people to believe…but Shallow? Quite.
BUT she DID have the grades and brains to be Accepted at Northwestern. She is no brainless person. So what if she took a different path when the opportunity to model came along in her youth and make Million’s.
If Cindy wanted to go back and continue her education I’m sure she could.
Many models go back to school after their careers are quiet and earn degrees. I know one girl who was a model in NYC, for ten years, today she is a Doctor
Just because she quit her education does not mean she is not smart. She is obviously a very good business woman.
I also saw her in NYC during the 90’s and she was such a beautiful lady, really stunning and not a skinny Minnie, like models today. Those 90’s models had strong bodies.
I think she had the grades to get in and I don’t doubt that she was a good student, but whenever she talks I wonder why she doesn’t sound more evolved. I think she’s smart as a businesswoman, but sort of bland in every other way. The chemical engineering thing should make her seem more interesting, but whenever she starts speaking I’m like “Why don’t you have any other interests besides how you look and what you’re selling?” I wouldn’t wonder this if the Northwestern thing wasn’t mentioned however. Other celebrities are bland too, but we’re not expected to find them brilliant either. I guess I’m baffled as to why everything in her life revolves around her looks if she had chemical engineering thing going for her. Even with her kids, she doesn’t seem interested in developing them in any other way except through their looks which I find weird for someone who had other options besides becoming a model.
@perplexed
Good point about the seeming narrowness of her interests, especially regarding her presentation of her children. I find that odd, too. Perhaps she limits what she shares to what she feels people are interested in (and what she can monetize).
@perplexed I am also surprised that Cindy hasn’t evolved more. I remember an interview with her from the nineties, around the time she was dating Richard Gere. She was very interested in cooking and healthy food back then. In that interview she mentioned that she regretted having ‘grown up on Wonderbread’ (she is from a modest background) and that she would love to educate children on healthy eating in the future. I always wondered why she didn’t follow up on that, it would have been a great way of giving back.
So true! She was the perfect model. But back then the image was of health and youth. Today I think the image is just thin and youth.
How many of today’s models would actually be considered “Supermodels” ? They all seem the same and missing that” something” that made Cindy, Linda and the rest so popular.
Also the supermodels of the 90’s were in a George Michael music video and don’t forget Rupaul’s “Supermodel”!
Agree, and she’s not articulate.
Meant to attach this to the comment below.
I always cringed when I came across “House of Style” on MTV. She was so wooden; she sounded like she was reading her lines.
I always thought she was stunning, so it was a bummer to see her not do so well with the speaking on video.
Today’s popular models lack personality and charisma and distinctiveness. Just like young Hollywood actresses … so cookie cutter and forgettable.
Ladies, I hate to admit this…but I think the reason we are waxing poetic about the supermodels of yore and talking about how all the new models just don’t have the same panache…is because we are getting old! I’m sure the 20 somethings of today think that Cara Delvigne (spelling?) and Gigi Hadid are ALL THAT and are probably in the artiste-du-jour’s music videos to boot.
Actually, models are very different than they were in the 90s heydey. Models today are hired more because of how many Instagram followers they have and who their parents are. The “Supermodels” like Cindy, Claudia, Linda, Naomi, etc. were women who rose to the top of their profession because they truly possessed that extra It. The 90s were also the last of the Supermodels as actual models – now actresses more typically fill that niche in beauty campaigns and magazine covers. Not to mention that trends in models change as well; after the Supermodels of the 90s came the Heroin Chic/Waif movement, then more androgynous, Eastern European was in fashion.
Forgive me Cindy lovers, but this woman is still as much of an egomaniac as she was way back when. Good job Richard Gere for getting out of that one. Personally, I wouldn’t want to be remembered for a mole next to my lips.
I can’t look beyond the mole, I’m always so grossed out…
And…a lot of dermatologists would advise removing it. With age, I’m sure there’s little something something’s spurting out of it. Ewww, why did I visualize that! My problem with her is her arrogance. When she’d sit down with mom and her sisters and they would go on and on about her beauty. There’s more to life than looks and her MTV model tips. That was a lifetime ago, she has to be zeroing in on 50.
I think she’s in a weird position because she’s a model, but, yeah, she never sounds particularly deep. She sounds even more shallow than the other models you see on Oprah — but maybe it’s a marketing thing and she does it for business. I can’t imagine talking about my looks ALL the time, even if I were beautiful, but she’s very successful money-wise, so what do I know…
I lost all respect for her when I saw her on Oprah and did a tour of her living room, which had big photo albums full of her old modeling photos stacked on the tables! She reminds me of one of those former beauty queens who still, when introducing herself to new people, mentions that she was “Miss Such-and-Such” even though it was more than 30 years ago.
Oh. I had an experience the other day of walking into someone’s home to find a similar display. It it a strange thing to meet with. . .
Am I the only one who find the celebs who don’t use social media MORE interesting? Like, you don’t know where they are, their private life, anything. It’s more interesting to have to read celebs interviews to get to know them a bit or what they’re up to, or buy magazines to look at pap-pics. Social media just screams “HERE I AM, I LIKE THIS, I LIKE THAT” and all of a sudden you know all this stuff so it’s not intresting anymore. It’s like when you starting to like this guy, you don’t want to know everything all of a sudden. It makes it more intriguing not to know. And it’s also a lot more interesting with celebs who are not famewhores. For me personally I think it’s outrageous that some celebrities (Kardashians *cough* Kardashians) even posts PAP-PICS OF THEMSELVES on their social media. I can just imagine Kendall googling herself to save those photos on her phone. Aren’t celebrities suppose to hate the paps, and work against the things that takes their private life away from them? I feel so many so called “celebs” these days are just HEEEREEE III AAAAMMM. Boring. Just me? Btw, sorry for my bad grammar… 🙂 I’m from Scandinavia.
I have to agree with you on that. But may I add to this; some celeb just want to be famous for nothing , so they do what they can to stay relevant, and that is just pathetic. The constant need for fame.
I understand feeling put off by the hunger for undeserved attention. It’s sometimes true that
those who advise and employ these people consider a strong social media following to be a sign of strong marketability, so it can be something that influences the opportunities they are given – beyond fame.
I think that some (Many?) of those papparazis are pai by the Kardashians themselves, so they might get a selection of pics to choose from whih to publish and post. They use their media and the papa and journalists in tabloids to further their brands and create interest in their reality show.
I cannot distinguish fake from real with them, they ale so many things.
At least some if the (more real) models are using media to somehow empower themselves and not to be at the mercy of the fashion and make up houses.
Nope. Totally with you. Unless they’re posting things that aren’t about staying relevant or getting their fans to support their causes (seriously some of them are over the line with that crap) then forget it. Ans some celebs then start complaining about fans being overly friendly and intrusive when they kinda help create that situation with their social media presence.
The models of today, they don’t have something special about them than the models in late 1980’s or 90’s. That’s why they need social media to make them popular. So Cindy Ccrawfordp, you and the rest of the supermodel’s era should be jealous because you are the epithony of models. I think last supermodel who has something special is Gisele Bundchen. After them, they have nothing
“The models of today, they don’t have something special about them than the models in late 1980′s or 90′s. That’s why they need social media to make them popular.” +++++++++ WELL SAID! So true.
Social media presence is not of benefit to the top models. I don’t get her logic. There’s no mystery then. The lower-tier models use it ad nauseum, but are they really supermodels? No. Maybe some very, very young models are using it like Kendall, Gigi, but I don’t understand how it makes them any better or benefits them than what the real supermodel’s careers were back in the day. These present day models who are all over social media just aren’t that interesting. Their social media presence only shows them out partying our posting selfies or their latest appearance.
I don’t think top models need to use social media, but maybe she feels she could have gotten into other business ventures earlier (like her furniture line?) with the use of it.
It may not have the advantage of making them more interesting to you, but I think she was observing that it gives THEM the ability to present themselves in the way THEY choose – for better or worse. My impression was she admired the freedom of that.
“a memoir …which is geared towards helping women of all ages develop a positive self image”. Please. These annoying ‘slebs’ who have made a career out of being genetically gifted? Really, what can they teach everywomen about positive self image? I embraced my mole? Well done, Cindy, that must have been a struggle. I’d rather hear from someone like Amy Purdy or Adele (because they’ve had to deal with some major body trauma, or don’t conform to the ‘norm’ yet still embrace themselves.
So agree. It’s like the 22 year olds on the moisturizer commercials telling me how to avoid wrinkles. Duh, be 22. I’m really not interested in how Cindy Crawford has “learned to accept herself.” Spare me.
Exactly this.
I think some people who are insecure and idolize these celebrities can benefit when they come off the pedestal and come forward with their own insecurities. I agree though, that, at this point, the “self-acceptance” thing is overdone and can sometimes feel insincere and hollow.
For whatever reason, there does seem to be a market for it.
For me, the most powerful message of “self-acceptance” comes when someone who doesn’t fit into society’s narrow ideals of perfection comes forward with true talent and self-confidence.
Adele is a great example of that.
Her children are gorgeous. Why do fillers exist? Why do people get them? I feel like they only make people look worse and once you start you can’t stop using them and it spirals out of control.
When her daughter was very young, she posted a pix of her in shorts that had the word juicy on the butt. Maybe some little kid in the neighborhood backyard, that might be cute, but I thought it was gross…..lots of weirdos on the internet and she gave them that picture. Didn’t like her before, but that just put me over. Ignorant twit.
@ Nancy
Exactly. Cindy is as much of a showbiz mother as Kris Jenner. In every picture young Kaia is almost always caked in make up (even to bake!!) as if her mother worries her natural features are not up to par.
I agree that she is a showbiz mom, she been pushing her kids to become model since they were babies. She seems to be reliving her modeling career through her kids.
Cindy’s eyes look different. It’s like whatever made the eyes work to differentiate her face from other people’s is gone.
I don’t know why she is jealous, she uses social media also. She has a instagram, website and Facebook site. Seems to enjoy using them to control her image.
My impression was she wishes she had had them as an outlet in her day. . .
She certainly does have catface. Hopefully she will stop before it gets out of hand. And she should be gratefull social media wasn’t around, the public knowing too much isn’t always a good thing Cindy.
Wow, Cindy has really overdone the botox and plastic surgery. Personally, the vast majority of my favorite actors shun social media.
She doesn’t look overdone to me. Maybe a tad bit too much filler, I agree, but I wouldn’t call it in cat face territory yet. She just looks like an older version of herself, a more mature face, that kind of square look faces get as aging. I do love her sense of style. I think getting her eyes done hardened her.
It must be hard as you are hitting 50 I think when you were an absolute stunner when a younger model. She is fine with it, but I think everyone must mourn at sometime their youthful beauty. Watch the firsts few minutes of this workout video of her in her 20s. When the guy is rolling her over his back in stretches in that black one-piece, her body is glorious and just so fit and strong, and her face was to die for and her massive head of hair.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKCTpodqeqg
I meant “some time.”
Watched only a minute or so, but this is such an oddly shot video. More guys than women must have bought it.
She does seem to use interesting music in it though. Most exercise videos have such boring music (probably because of copyright).
Well that was a whole lot of nothing! Doesn’t make we want to pick up her book.
She will probably go down in history as one of the most successful supermodels.
(But her face is dangerously treading in Janice Dickinson territory.)
Conversely without social media a lot of these ‘supermodels’ wouldn’t be models at all. Looking at faces like Gigi Hadid’s in the wild remind me that while she’s pretty in terms of being a model she feels so…2nd/3rd tier. Same with Kendall Jenner and all of them.
It used to be models were of a different tier than celebrities and now we see these same beautiful average faces everywhere. None of these chicks stands out.
Hmm. I know what you mean when you say there was a time when they felt “of a different tier,” but I never felt that was by nature of the models, themselves. I always thought media hype, mystery and exclusivity produced that feeling. For me, it feels as though the change is just the result of a changing media landscape. . . .
Fair call. I’m a little bit jealous of people who get to coast through life thanks to beauty privilege.
Yup ! And then they get doted on for how “great they look at their age”. Well they weren’t working a stressful 9 to 5 or 12 hour shift in a factory were they? Nope. They woke up whenever they wanted, did a yoga session, ate their organic food, and walked on the beach each day. All because they were blessed with good looks and height.
Spot on.
To me, social media seems to be rather a disadvantage for models. There’s no mystery anymore. We see selfies on a daily basis, and are getting tired of having to witness their every step. They aren’t “special” anymore. Cindy is making the same mistake by putting her family life out on Instagram on a daily basis. I actually thought she was brighter than telling her daughter something like “Enjoy carbs while you can!”, but it seems she’s still very insecure, and aging does indeed scare her. She messed with her face quite a bit, and I find her very masculine looking. And I definitely don’t need to read a book by a woman who insisted that ”Meaningful Beauty” is the secret to her everglowing skin. That stuff is full of toxic chemicals. Next to a melon extract, of course;-)
A “rare” melon extract at that 😉
Like a few others here, I feel a need to climb on a soap box. I AM SOOOOOO SICK OF BEING MADE TO FEEL BAD ABOUT MYSELF. I have to be a certain size or my hair has to look a certain way or certain body parts smell bad all the time or my eyelashes aren’t visible enough. ENOUGH! This is a woman who once said “Even I don’t get up in the morning looking like Cindy Crawford”. And now she does?! Give me a break. I am the only one who has to live with me my whole life. If I don’t like some part of me, it is up to me to fix it. But I darn sure am not going to get lessons in how I should be from someone who isn’t even in a natural state themselves when they peddle a product telling me what is wrong with me. I am not interested in someone who uses fake lashes telling me to use this mascara, or that person with hair extensions telling me to use that hair care. If I haven’t showered in a couple of days, when I get on an elevator my reflection is not that of someone who looks like they are looking for their next fix. Cindy stop trying to peddle your overpriced line of snack oil to women with low self esteem and get your own affairs in order. Just because you feel bad about how you look doesn’t mean you should be telling others they look bad.
I really thought she had hit 50 already??
Wow her daughter is a carbon copy !!!!!
Never understood why she named her kid Presley. If she was a fan, wouldn’t Elvis been the better choice.
Presley sounds like such a wealthy white person’s name too.
She comes across as vapid to me at times, but she is a strong businesswoman and good at marketing — maybe that’s why she sees social media as an advantage. Someone like her probably wouldn’t have screwed up on it — social media probably works if you’re good at it, and I could see someone like her (non-controversial, never says anything truly offensive, talks about the products she’s shilling without coming across like a Kardashian) excelling on it. She’d probably approach Twitter the way Taylor Swift does. Once in a while she might say something dumb, but she’d probably be smart enough to rein that in if her business or brand is on the line. She’s never struck me as one who reveals too much, even though she talks about her beauty (what a boring topic) a lot.
I was struck by the line: “No one does Cindy Crawford better than Cindy Crawford.” So you can tell she sees herself as a business rather than as someone who would be up to all kinds of weird nonsense on social media like Miley Cyrus.
Her son is going to be really handsome when he gets older. He already is, but it’s unusual for a 16 year old boy to be that good-looking and, well, not awkward. So it’ll be interesting to see what he looks like when he’s 25.
He is. More and more I find myself noticing the change in looks/presence that men go through when they hit about mid-thirties. I find myself looking at twenty somethings and wondering what they will look like when they are 35. The change from boy to man seems to settle in. . .
I am glad Thyra Banks didn’t grow up in the social media era…
She looks awful. She looks likes Janice Dickenson. Women really need to stop messing with their faces. I guess she looks “younger” maybe but also not like herself. How can that be worth it especially when you are Cindy Freaking Crawford and completely gorgeous?
I think it speaks to a fear and pressure that her “learning to love yourself” message somehow contradicts.
Does botox mess your eyes up? Her eyes are what sort of take her into Janice Dickinson territory. You can sort of see her original set of eyes in her daughter or son.
Her son’s cheekbones look like they could cut glass. Since he’s a boy, I wonder if he’d be as interested in modelling as his sister. It’d be funny if he was all “No Mom, I want to be a hockey player!’
I agree with the person up thread who thinks we are waxing poetic. I grew up a huge Cindy Crawford fan. I’m still a fan because she was part of my youth. It was different then. We didn’t have the internet. We had MTV and magazines. The SUPER models were created and we followed them…..their shows, the rockers they dated, music videos, all of it. They were our pop culture characters of the day. So no, I don’t think they are any prettier or any better than models now, but because they made up my formative years pop culturally speaking, they seem “better”. I guess the kids now have reality stars and YouTube sensations to keep up with.
“she still looks like cindy crawford’?! Are you high?
She looks like a tranny who did plastic surgery to look more like Cindy C.
Her kids are gorgeous, just like their mother.
She’s right, but even more than just shaping one’s career, a lot of the models wouldn’t even have a career without social media. Kendall Jenner, Cara (she said this herself in an interview; that her career was all thanks to social media), etc. But it’s vapid business anyway and Cindy has that halo, for what it’s worth, for being an authentic supermodel (height, body, looks). Christy, Naomi, Cindy, Linda, Claudia and others like Elle McPherson, Tatjana Patitz, Paulina Porizkova, Veronica Webb, Stephanie Seymour (who’s also aged very well), Helena Christensen, Karen Mulder, Tyra Banks.
Today, even “models” like Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin can book catwalk jobs. You wouldn’t look twice at these girls on the street, even if they have the requisite model height. It’s all marketing for the brands.
To me, she looks a lot like Caitlyn Jenner. It’s as if they share the same surgeon. But I never saw her as striking or beautiful to begin with. I saw her as a fairly nondescript, attractive woman with a nice, athletic frame and pretty hair. Her deception with the whole “Meaningful Beauty” (or whatever that was called) soured me on her, not that I ever thought much of her or understood the infatuation w her to begin with. Her dread of aging is petrified, now, on her frozen, frightened face: I certainly wouldn’t buy anything about this woman’s sad, warping “thoughts” on beauty and aging. She clearly has nothing new or enlightening to say.