Cindy Crawford (Trabalho elaborado por José Carlos Mesquita, 8ºD)

Cindy Crawford



Cindy Crawford was born on the 20th February 1996 in the state of Illinois and became a North-American model.
When she was dedicating to the corn harvest, a short-time summer work, a photographer noticed her beauty and decided to take photos of Cindy. As a result of the session, her photogenia became noticeable, and that was enough to lead her to start her career as a model.
That summer, and the next she worked as a model for the Chicago’s Elite, but then she dedicated herself in exclusive to university, in the area of Chemical Engineering. Along the way she left her participation in the «Elite Look of the Year», in 1982, where she was one of the strongest candidates to victory. Later, she would leave her studies and go back to the “Fashion World”.
In the beginning of her career, someone suggested (she) her to take a birthmark she had close to her mouth off because it was ugly; she didn’t, and now it’s part of her image.
Cindy worked in Chicago until success took her to New York, where she lived until 1996 when she installed herself in Los Angeles. It only took two years to start to dress clothes of the most well known designers in the world and to occupy the front pages of the most fashionable magazines.
Until today, she has done more than 400 front pages in the world. One of the most famous is the «Vanity Fair» of 1993. There, Cindy appeared with the lesbian singer KD Lang in a pose that shocked the most conservatives.
Her success allowed her to integrate the first group of “super models”, up to the top models, where Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista belonged.
In 1998, she became the first super model to accept to pose for «Playboy». The experience was very well accepted by the public and allowed her a contract, which lasted for 6 years, to become the presenter of the fashion program «House of Style», of MTV.
She had an inclination for business too: she sold series of calendars and videos with images of her.
In 1995, she was considered by the North-American magazine «Forbes» as the most well paid model of the world. In that year she premiered in the cinema in “Easy Prey”, where she co-acted with William Baldwin, but the success was beneath the expected.
Cindy Crawford dedicated lots of time to charity, especially related with leukaemia, which stole her a brother when they both were children. Half the profits of her calendars are predestined to programs of leukaemia fighting.