Cindy Crawford Biography: Real Name, Occupation, State Of Origin, Parents, Alive, Siblings, Model, Actress, Award & More Details About Her
BIOGRAPHY
Cynthia Ann Crawford is an American Model, Actress and Television Personality. She was born on February 20, 1966. Cindy Crawford, as she is popularly called, was one of the most popular supermodels of the 1980s and 1990s. She is a very beautiful model with a trademark mole above her upper lip.
Cindy Crawford came to limelight at about the time of demise of one of the first supermodels, Gia Carangi. She is also said to have a striking resemblance with Gia, hence her being referred to as “Baby Gia”. She appeared on covers of several magazines, runways, ads, fashion campaigns and products. She started out as a model but later on ventured into acting and working with TV media houses, filming and then business.
CAREER LIFE
In her junior year at DeKalb High School, Cindy Crawford was hired, alongside a number of other high school girls, by a local clothing. While photographing another college girl for the DeKalb Nite Weekly, local photographer Roger Legel asked to take a photograph of her, and this was how Cindy made it to the cover of her first magazine.
The reactions from the readers convinced her to push further into the world of modelling. She then joined Elite Model Management and made it to the National finals of Elite’s “Look of the Year” contest in 1983 at 17 years of age. After she left Northwestern University, she worked with photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago. In 1986, she moved to New York City where she signed with Elite New York Modeling Agency.
In I990, Cindy Crawford appeared alongside top models Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell on the cover of the January 1990 edition of British Vogue. Later the same year, all five of them subsequently featured in the video for George Michael’s hit “Freedom 90”. In 1994, Cindy played a key role in Jon Bon Jovi’s music video “Please Come Home for Christmas”. She has appeared in several other music videos including playing Headmistress in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” in 2015. Cindy Crawford has also worked alongside other top models like Kara Kloss, Cara Delevingne, Martha Hunt, Lily Aldridge, Helena Christensen, Carla Bruni. She has made over 500 magazine appearances including Cosmopolitan, Allure, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, People, and she has worked with popular brands like Calvin Klein, Versace, Revlon, Valentino, Dolce & Gabbana, Christian Dior, Ralph Lauren, Chanelz DKNY and many more.
From 1989 to 1995, Cindy was host and executive producer of MTV’s “House of Style”. In 1992, she appeared in Pepsi’s Super Bowl commercial. She was named of the 50 most beautiful people by People magazine in 2002, and one of the “100 Hottest Women of All Time” by Men’s Health.
In 2005, after she quit active modeling, she created a line of beauty products with Jean-Louis Sebagh called “Meaningful Beauty” for Guthy-Renker. She also launched a furniture line with the name “Cindy Crawford Home Collection” manufactured by HM Richards Inc. in the same year.
Through her career in modeling, acting and later her business prowess, she gathered for herself a good measure of fortune. She has been described by Forbes as one of the richest supermodels. According to the New York Post, she has earned over 300 million dollars as a model, her job as an actress raked in almost 50 million dollars throughout her career. She invested time and money in her fashion brand which gets her about 5 million dollars every year.
She has properties in Canada as well as in the United States of America but still resided in a luxury home in Los Angeles. Her Los Angeles home comes with a price tag of 22 million dollars. She also has oceanfront property in neighboring Malibu that has a value of 24 million dollars. She also has a private jet.
In August 2001, Cindy and Rande sold their home in Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, for over $13.5 million.
PROFILE
Full Name: Cynthia Ann Crawford
Age: 57 years old
Birthday: February 20, 1966
Net Worth: $400 million
Children: Presley Walker Gerber (son), Kaia Jordan Gerber (daughter)
Siblings: Chris, Danielle (sisters), Jeffrey (brother)
Partner: Rande Gerber
Nationality: American
Birthplace: Dekalb, Illinois, U.S
Height: 5′ 9″ (1.75m)
Profession: Actress, Model, Television Personality
Father: Dan Crawford
Mother: Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker)
EARLY LIFE
Cindy Crawford was born on February 20, 1966, in DeKalb Illinois to father – Dan Crawford, and mother – Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf. She had three siblings; two sisters and one brother. Her two sisters were named Chris and Danielle, and she had a brother named Jeffrey who died of leukaemia at a tender age of 3. Cindy was 10 years old at the time. She usually referred to him as the fourth most influential person in her life.
Cindy attended Dekalb High School and graduated as the valedictorian in 1984. She was awarded a scholarship to study Chemical Engineering. She didn’t finish the program though, as she dropped out after one semester to delve wholly into modelling.
PERSONAL LIFE AND RELATIONSHIPS
In 1991, Cindy Crawford got married to actor Richard Gere, but they got divorced in 1995. Then she met and married an entertainment industry businessman and former model Rande Gerber on May 29, 1998. Cindy gave birth to their first child, a son named Presley Walker Gerber, on July 2, 1999. They also have a daughter, Kaia Jordan Gerber, born on September 3, 2001. Her daughter is also a very successful model. Cindy Crawford and her daughter Kaia appeared together on the cover of the April 2016 edition of Vogue Paris.
Cindy Crawford stated on social media that her ancestry was a a mix of English, French and German. In 2013, she discovered that she is a descendant of Charlemagne, and that her ancestors consisted of English nobles and royals of the middle age. This was discovered when she appeared in an episode of “Who Do You Think You Are?”.
As a result of the loss of her brother to childhood leukaemia, she directed her charity work and advocacy during her modeling years to medical research in the fields of Pediatric Oncology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Jeff, her brother, was treated. The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation also has her as an honorary board member.
In 2021, she recreated her legendary Pepsi commercial with the photographer David Yarrow, for a fundraiser for the American Family Children’s Hospital in Wisconsin, Madison.