Cindy Crawford Biography:

Sixteen-year-old Cindy Crawford was earning her summer income by working in the corn fields, when a photographer from a local newspaper took her picture. The photo showed a young girl of extraordinary, all-American beauty, and it generated enough positive feedback to convince her to quit her farm job and spend the summer modeling.

Her good fortune did not end there. This former maiden of the cornfield would go on to turn her captivating beauty into a career as a multimillion-dollar commercial pitchwoman, television personality, fitness-video queen, and possible movie star. Her purse was full of money from the Chicago office of the Elite Modeling Agency, and she then enrolled at Northwestern University to study chemical engineering on an academic scholarship. She made straight As through high school.

It only took her one semester to conclude that modeling was a far more rewarding and marvelous career than engineering, and she left the University to model full-time for Chicago photographer Victor Skrebneski. In 1986, having made it big in Chicago, she relocated to New York to try and extend her talents. Within two years of arriving in the Big Apple, she had become a authentic supermodel and sexy celebrity, swaying down top runways, gracing top magazine covers, going to top parties, and earning top dollars.

In 1988, she made a brave decision to become the first modern supermodel to pose for Playboy Magazine. Among those awed by the photo layout were executives at MTV, who then hired her to host the network's fashion program, House of Style, where she held that job for six successful seasons.

She again showed to be an entrepreneurial guru by launching a best-selling series of swimsuit calendars when her photo shots for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue got cut from the final photo spread. She put at risk her commercial contracts by posing nude on a 1993 cover of Vanity Fair with openly gay singer and songwriter K.D. Lang.

When fellow super models Naomi Campbell, Elle Macpherson, and Claudia Schiffer invested in the Fashion Café enterprise, a savvy Crawford decided instead to buy a piece of Planet Hollywood.

In the usually erratic world of high fashion and modeling, she remained the hottest of properties for ten years after beginning her modeling career. By 1995, Forbes calculated that she was the world's highest paid super model, with annual earnings in the neighborhood of $9.5 million (Schiffer ranked second at $5.3 million). The business magazine accredited her continued financial success to her charm and her ability to sell her name and face for commercial endorsements on a scale similar to that of professional athletes.

Her company, Crawdaddy Inc., was raking in the bulk of its fees from Pepsi, Kay Jewelers, and Revlon, which signed her to a multiyear, seven-figure contract. Before passing her thirtieth birthday, had started to reposition herself for a post-modelling career. She stepped down from House of Style, pulled up stakes in Manhattan, and relocated her base to Los Angeles, where she signed up for her first feature film, the box-office bomb "Fair Game" (1995) With Salma Hayek, about a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her. 

She then had a guest cameo in the movie "54" (1998) about the famous 70's New York City Studio 54 nightclub seen and told through the eyes of a young employee. While her role was small, it gave her the chance to work with an all-star cast that included Ryan Phillippe, Mike Myers and Salma Hayek. She then had a starring role in the romantic comedy "The Simian Line" (2000) with Harry Connick Jr., about an eccentric palm reader who predicts that one of the couples attending an intimate dinner party will end their relationship before the year is over, sparking confusion and doubt amongst the guests.

The model turned actress has made numerous guest appearances on television sitcoms and talk shows including "MTV Music Awards", "Saturday Night Live", "Late Show with David Letterman", "Ellen", "The Howard Stern Show", "The Rosie O'Donnell Show", "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The View", "Frasier", "3rd Rock from the Sun" and "According to Jim".

Her appeal extends into her personal life: she attracted the eye of actor Richard Gere, seventeen years older than her, and after dating for four years, they married in December 1991. Their quick Las Vegas ceremony, which featured wedding rings made of foil, cemented what appeared to be a perfect union, if not to all observers, then at least to People Magazine, which called the couple the Sexiest Couple Alive. Three years later, and mere months after she and Gere took out a $30,000, full-page ad in the London Times that declared their love to be true and of the heterosexual variety, she filed for divorce. There had been rumors that Gere was gay for many years, the divorce announcement was a disappointment to the Hollywood tabloid press that once again went on the bandwagon speculating that he was gay.

She has since rebounded romantically, wining and dining a series of high-profile companions, including actors Robert De Niro and Val Kilmer.

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