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Cindy Crawford, legendary supermodel
Cindy Crawford

CINDY CRAWFORD

Marcellous Jones


By Marcellous L. Jones

Supermodel Cindy Crawford, born Cynthia Anne Crawford, is best known as the "All-American" glamour girl. She has the distinction of being officially crowned as one of the original modern day supermodels, known as the "Fab Five" (See Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Tatjana Patitz).
She was born in Dekalb, Michigan and raised in the countryside of Illinois, USA. Her parents are John Crawford and Jennifer Moluf. She had a brother who died at a young age of leukemia.

Cindy's break came by hazard. She was seen and photographed by a newspaper photographer as she was shucking corn on her summer job. At the time, she was 15 years old. The picture and the positive reactions from the photos convinced her to give modeling a chance. This proved to be a money-maker for the young future star.

In the beginning, not everyone shared in the thought that Cindy could make it to the big league of the modelling world. Due to her distinguished beauty mark, many modelling agencies rejected her upon first sight. Headstrong and refusing to bow to pressure from agents to have her mole removed, she got accepted to Elite (Chicago) for representation after having completed a training course for perspective models at a local John Casablancas Modeling and Career Center. Dedicated to her craft, Cindy commuted from home to Chicago to work with photographers, go on castings and for her work assignments.

A brilliant student, Cindy graduated high school not only as an honor student, but as class valedictorian too. She then entered the prestigious Northwestern University on a scholarship, and where she studied chemical engineering.

She continued modeling while at Northwestern and maintained a 4.0 GPA. However, feeling that her time had come, she left school and moved ...

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