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  2. 1 day ago · May 13, 2024. Rande Gerber, Kaia Gerber, Cindy Crawford and Presley Gerber.John Phillips/BFC/Getty Images. Cindy Crawford has always put her family first on her way to becoming one of the industry ...

  3. Feb 20, 2018 · Cindy (pictured far left) was born into a hardworking Midwestern family in DeKalb, Illinois, the second of four children. Her mother worked in a doctor’s office, while her father was a machinist...

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    Crawford was born Cynthia Ann on Feb 20, 1966 in Dekalb, Illinois. The second oldest of four, Crawford had two sisters, Chris and Danielle, and a younger brother named Jeffrey. In many ways, she had a typical middle-class uprbinging: Her father, John Daniel, was an electrician, while her mother Jennifer-Sue worked as a bank teller. Getty Images

    When Crawford burst onto the American fashion scene, her dark looks and confidence changed the game. As fashion designer Michael Korsonce put it, "Cindy changed the perception of the 'sexy American girl' from classic blue eyed blonde to a more sultry brunette with brains, charm, and professionalism to spare." Break that mold, Cindy. Getty Images

    Crawford appeared on an episode of the series Who Do You Think You Are in 2013 and discovered something incredible about her ancestry. Like many people, she's descended from a collection of earls, counts, and aristocrats—but one ancestor blows them all way. Most impressively, Crawford traced her lineage all the way to the famous Holy Roman Emperor ...

    Crawford has a hilarious and touching connection to Princess Diana. When Diana found out that her son Prince William had a massive crush on Crawford, she invited her and fellow models Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington to Buckingham Palace to greet the very starstruck boy. As William remembers it, "I went bright red and didn’t know what to say a...

    In her sophomore year at high school, Crawford received a call from a local clothing store asking her if she wanted to model for them. Crawford was disappointed to find out this was just a practical joke her classmates had cooked up—but she got the last laugh.The next year, the very same clothing store took her on as a model for real. Shutterstock

    Legend has it that Crawford got her big break when a photographer took a picture of her working on the family farm. As idyllic as this seems, the truth is much different. After a local put her on the cover of the DeKalb Nite Weekly, it generated buzz and encouraged her to pursue modeling. After that, she entered Elite Model Management's Look of the...

    Crawford isn't just a pretty face: she earned straight-As throughout high school, and was even Valedictorian. Shutterstock

    True to form, Crawford got into Northwestern University on a scholarship for chemical engineering, but her days were hardly carefree. While there, she endured ridicule in the male-heavy department because of her looks: one time, she turned up to a calculus class only to have the professor glance at her and snidely tell her she was in the wrong room...

    In 1986, Crawford dropped out of university and moved to New York to pursue a professional career in modeling. She started getting work immediately, but the fashion world was sometimes cruel. In particular, many of her first photoshoots and magazine covers—including for British Vogue—airbrushed out her iconic mole just because it was different. Get...

    Industry insiders almost immediately noticed that the young Crawford looked like 1970s top model Gia Carangi, earning her the nickname "Baby Gia." Flickr

  4. Jul 14, 2020 · Cindy Crawford was born Cynthia Ann Crawford in DeKalb, Illinois on Feb. 20, 1966. According to Marie Claire , her father, John, and her mother, Jennifer, were childhood sweethearts. For a time, Cindy Crawford's "all-American upbringing" was pretty mundane.

  5. Feb 28, 2023 · Born Cynthia Ann Crawford in DeKalb, Illinois, in 1966, Cindy Crawford started her modeling career while she was still in high school. She was a gifted student, earning a scholarship to study engineering at Northwestern University, but dropped out after one semester to pursue modeling.

  6. Nov 19, 2023 · Born in 1966 in DeKalb, Illinois, a young Cindy Crawford was first discovered at age 16 by a local newspaper photographer. After winning a modeling contest put on by the newspaper, she began to establish her modeling career while still in high school.

  7. Oct 6, 2015 · The book has been a chance to talk about growing up among the cornfields west of Chicago, and her early start modeling in the city. Crawford, 49, grew up in DeKalb, and she was the...

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