Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model, actress and television personality. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was among the most popular supermodels and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, as well as fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into acting and business ventures.
In her sophomore year at high school, she received a call from a local clothing store regarding modeling work, only to discover it was a prank by two of her classmates. However, the following year, another store hired a number of high school girls, including Crawford, to work for them (including a fashion shoot). In her junior year, local photographer Roger Legel, whose duties included photographing a different college girl to be that week's coed in the DeKalb Nite Weekly, asked to take her picture for the publication; the result was Crawford's first cover.[9] The photo and positive feedback she received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. Initially, she worked with a small agency, which was sold to Elite Model Management shortly after she signed. In 1983, she entered Elite's Look of the Year contest at 17 and made the national finals.[10][11]
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Crawford graduated from DeKalb High School in 1984 as valedictorian.[10][12] She earned an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, which she attended for only one semester before dropping out to pursue a full-time modeling career. After working for photographer Victor Skrebneski in Chicago, she moved to New York City in 1986 and signed with the Elite New York modeling agency.[13][14]
In 1987, Crawford appeared in the opening credits of the Michael J. Fox film The Secret of My Success. Three years later, she was featured alongside top models Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Tatjana Patitz and Naomi Campbell on the cover of the January 1990 edition of British Vogue. Crawford and the other four models subsequently appeared in the video for George Michael's hit "Freedom '90" later that year. Subsequently, Crawford played the lost love of Jon Bon Jovi in the 1994 video for his version of "Please Come Home For Christmas", "John Taylor" in the 2011 video for Duran Duran's "Girl Panic" (featuring supermodels as the band, including Naomi Campbell as Simon Le Bon), and Headmistress in the 2015 video for Taylor Swift's "Bad Blood" as part of a cast including Jessica Alba, Selena Gomez, and fellow models Lily Aldridge, Cara Delevingne, Gigi Hadid, Martha Hunt and Karlie Kloss.
In the late 1990s, she made a number of appearances in magician David Copperfield's stage shows, standing in for her fellow supermodel Claudia Schiffer as Copperfield's guest assistant. During these appearances, she took part in a number of different illusions including being levitated, guillotined, and sawn in half in Copperfield's Clearly Impossible illusion. On a number of occasions, she joined Copperfield and Schiffer in a performance of the Double Sawing illusion in which both women were sawn in half and then reassembled with their lower halves swapped.[29]
Crawford quit full-time modeling in 2000 and now appears only occasionally in fashion magazines. In 2005, Crawford created a line of beauty products with Jean-Louis Sebagh called Meaningful Beauty for Guthy-Renker.[30] Crawford has stated that she regularly receives certain cosmetic procedures, including Botox and vitamin injections. She first saw a plastic surgeon at the age of 29.[31]
In 2009, Crawford was one of many celebrities to be photographed by Deborah Anderson for the coffee table book Room 23, produced by philanthropist Diana Jenkins. In addition to appearing in the book, Crawford was the cover model and wrote the dedication.[34] Becoming, a book about Crawford's life and career co-written by Crawford and Katherine O'Leary, was published in September 2015.[35]
Crawford and her daughter Kaia appeared together on the cover of the April 2016 issue of Vogue Paris.[36] In 2016, she became a spokesperson for Acqua Minerale San Benedetto in Italy.[37] In September 2017, Crawford, along with models Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell, Helena Christensen and Carla Bruni, closed the Versace spring/summer 2018 fashion show, which was an homage to the late Gianni Versace.[38]
Crawford was married to actor Richard Gere from 1991 until their divorce in 1995. She married businessman and former model Rande Gerber on May 29, 1998.[41] They have two children, son Presley Walker Gerber (born July 2, 1999)[42] and daughter Kaia Jordan Gerber (born September 3, 2001),[2][43] the latter of whom has had a successful modeling career.[44]
We loved Cindy with our whole hearts. I thought we would be forever friends, we were, but taken too fast. Our thoughts and prayers ?? for those loved ones this sweet woman leaves on earth. Cindy, You are only a prayer away. We will miss you so much. Enjoy that beautiful mansion in the sky where love is the only way. I miss you already.
Results of telomere length associations with other various dietary aspects were inconsistent.13,29,30 The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) previously examined sugar-sweetened soda consumption in relation to telomere length among adults.30 Their results showed no association after adjustment for sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, and BMI. The fact that MESA had a smaller sample size and an older population, on average than NHANES, might account for why an association was found in our study but not in MESA.
We observed no significant associations between consumption of noncarbonated SSBs and telomere length. The lack of association might be attributed to the large degree of heterogeneity in sugar content across beverages.46 In the study population, the average consumption of noncarbonated SSBs (0.3 servings/day) was substantially lower than the average consumption of sugar-sweetened sodas (1.5 servings/day); it might be that sugar consumption in beverages affected telomere length only at higher intake levels. Consumption of noncarbonated SSBs has increased in recent years, whereas overall intakes of sugar-sweetened sodas have decreased, and an association between consumption of noncarbonated SSBs and telomere length might emerge in future studies.3 Even lacking a significant current association with telomere length, decreasing consumption of SSBs to reduce risks of obesity-related chronic disease seems prudent.8,10
We recently got a rare look inside of Hauser's family life when the actor shared a Happy 4th of July post on Instagram alongside a photo of himself, his wife, and his daughter Steely Rose. The sweet little trio posed together in front of a stunning beach sunset and we have no doubt that they enjoyed some much-deserved family time along with their two other children. 2ff7e9595c
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