Cindy Crawford is giving us one of those “duh” moments. She’s out there promoting something, and during an interview she claimed that by today’s standards for models, she is simply too healthy to make it. Dur. Cindy goes on – talking about how she has “big breasts” (not really), normal thighs (still look skinny to me, but whatever) and toned upper arms (she does have great arms). I get that Cindy is trying to maybe make us feel better when describing a simple truth about the current crop super-skinny models, but I feel like this is a “thank you, Captain Obvious” moment. Is there anyone out there who doesn’t look with horror at the nearly pre-pubescent, shapeless girls that pass for “supermodels” these days? I miss Cindy. I miss Linda Evangelista, too. I loved Linda.
US former supermodel Cindy Crawford says she would have little chance of making it big in the fashion business today with her curvy figure, a German celebrity magazine reported Tuesday.
“I would not have become a supermodel in 2009. I look too healthy,” Crawford told Bunte.
“A body like mine with big breasts, normal thighs and toned upper arms” is no longer what the industry is looking for, she said.
Crawford, 43, said she was happy with her physique but worried about the effects of ageing like wrinkles and bulges.
“That’s why I like being in my 40s so much — being at peace with yourself, knowing about your strengths beyond being pretty,” she said.
Crawford, known for her trademark beauty spot above her upper lip, briefly studied chemical engineering before becoming one of the world’s most popular cover girls in the 1980s and 1990s.
[From Yahoo News]
It seems like Cindy has been getting more press lately for whatever reason. Part of it is that she’s launched a home accessories line at J.C. Penney, and she’s been giving more interviews. A few months ago she even talked about her “cellulite” in Redbook. Cindy has also been in the news because she’s been hanging out George Clooney and his girlfriend, who looks like a budget version of Cindy. I wonder if Cindy ever really thinks about that – that her husband’s best friend is a little bit obsessed with her, to the point where he seems to date women that look a lot like her.
Cindy Crawford is shown at an Omega event on 10/15/09, credit: Fame Pictures, and in London at the after party for The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Credit: WENN.com
I miss Linda the most. She was the best of the supermodels IMO.
Cindy better get to a dermatologist, because that beauty mark of hers is now a big ol’ ugly mole.
Uh, you guys are taking seriously something that came out of a model’s mouth?
I think Clooney’s so obsessed with her because she looks like a female version of himself.
And I’ve been hearing on the gossip sites that she doesn’t use that skin stuff she’s been hawking.
Cindy probably meant she has breast which current models don’t. Even Kate Hudson has large breasts compared to most models.
I miss Christy turlington, and Claudia schiffer
It’s known in the modeling/business world that Cindy Crawford is no dummy; she invested her money, is sharp when it comes to managing her fortune, and isn’t likely to snort it all away like some have done. She actually has a brain.
As to normal, no, she’s still slimmer than the average woman, and has genes that allow her to age much more gracefully than a lot of women. She still is a pretty woman, even at the the perceived “advanced” age of forty something.;-)
cindy’s my definition of great body, naomi’s too (maybe with a little help of some substances *sniff*)
and I completely agree with her statement, today’s beauty profile is sick
Does she mean that she, as she is right now, couldn’t enter into modelling? Because that is totally true; she is way too old for a start in modelling, even if she is still gorgeous. If she means that the body she had back when she did start wouldn’t get her into the biz nowadays… she may still be right. These days they are almost all ridiculously skinny, and she is a little meatier (for a model… not for an average schlub, obvs).
Kaiser, I loved Linda, too!
She looks beautiful, for any age, but… that dress is a no go, the belt kinda looks like she put a superhero eye mask about her waist.
She was my least favorite super model. Not that she isn’t pretty, but Elle McPherson was always my fave, along with Helena Christiansen.
@ Green is God: Cindy better get to a dermatologist, because that beauty mark of hers is now a big ol’ ugly mole.
Hater much!? I have a mole, also termed beauty spot. What’s up with the negativity? Mine is healthy and noncancerous, looks good, and i get much compliments for it.
Pole you are right. Linda and Iman are my all time fav su-mo’s.
Cindy looks like she’s starting to hit the botox bottle and it’s not needed. She looked like she was aging gracefully, but now I just don’t know. Something seems off for some reason this year.
so george has a little crush…ha!
Have you seen the bony thighs on the newest models? Twigs. Twiggy looked MEATY compared to them. Emaciated, concentration camp, refugee-thin girls. It’s gotten really bad again, and it’s time to take designers and magazine editors to task once more.
The most recent issue of Vogue has a picture of a tennis player (star?) talking to a woman on a sidewalk, sorry I can’t be more specific but I don’t have the magazine with me. The woman the tennis player is talking to is so skinny it made me do a double-take. I thought surely it’s photoshopped, but I don’t think it is. She is absolutely emaciated…how anyone could find that attractive I don’t know. And why Vogue would choose to overshadow the tennis person (which the brief article was about) is beyond me.
She’s so gorgeous- her body still looks amazing, too.
I don’t get why is it such a big deal when models are super skinny. It is just a fad that will change in a few seasons. Swings and roundabouts. Of course there are impressionable teenage girls, but if they don’t get their bad influences from the fashion industry, they will get them from somewhere else. Heaven knows there are enough bad influences out there to go around without demonising fashion, it is getting old. High fashion is art – it is not meant to be a guideline on how to live or eat, or indeed, even what is beautiful. Actually I find the fashion industry to be self-important and full of silly navel-gazers, but what artistic medium isn’t…
If she ever got rid of that mole, I’m not really sure if I’d be able to recognize her…
yes, jay she is one of the smarter “super” models.
not only was she the valedictorian of her HS class, but she studied Chemical Engineering before she became a model full time.
not the kind of subject you’d try to undertake as a major if you were dumb.
re: her mole/beauty mark…I think she recently said something about having it checked by a doctor as it HAS grown a bit and changed shape.
It does matter that models are so scary skinny nowadays, because as much as we don’t want it to, young people DO look at those pictures and think that it’s what they’re supposed to look like. We can scream it from the rafters, but they’ll think it anyway; remember when you were a teen. Where did you get your influences? Mine were magazines and the first music vidoes.
I think the first female teen I wanted to emulate because of magazines and her beauty pageant title was Cybill Shepherd.
Check this out from Cybill Shepherd’s Imdb.com profile: Born on February 18, 1950, in Memphis, Tennessee, Shepherd won the 1966 Miss Teenage Memphis contest. Turning to modeling, Shepherd, at 5’8″ and 140 lbs., was more full-figured than Twiggy and her clones who were popular in the late 1960s, and she quickly became a success, being named the 1968 Model of the Year.
I don’t really believe that thin models cause young girls to be anorexic. If that were the case there’d be fat more anorexic woman walking around because everyone is equally exposed to it.
Not to say I don’t think it’s immoral that the fashion industry promotes an unhealthy body image, because I do think it’s wrong. I just don’t buy the statement that it causes, or directly leads to anorexia (maybe an indirect effect in that is may compound an existing problem)
Ben, I agree, people throw a huge fit over the thin models, but the reality is our society is overweight, not underweight, and there just simply aren’t as many anorexics as overweight people. It just doesn’t hold true…yes, some people will be affected by this, the same way some people are affected by other things.
and what i don’t understand is why everybody is so upset about the models not being “real” because they are thin, and “real” women don’t look like that. yea, but nobody complains that models are beautiful, and “real” women aren’t…why is nobody screaming for ugly, short models with bad skin? just wondering…
Okay, Beth (comment number 5). Kate Hudson could never have huge breasts compared to most models because SHE IS FLAT AS A BOARD. She literally has no breasts at all!
Cindy Crawford is now and always has been the most beautiful woman in the entire world … !!!
Christy Turlington = stunning.
Cindy is so gorgeous and smart. She was a valedictorian at her high school and actually had some college unlike most of Hollywood or models. She definitely won the genetic lottery and so did her kids! I don’t think I’ve seen more gorgeous kids. You can tell she’s a natural beauty as her daughter and son have her features.
God she looks so different now! All that filler is just not suiting her – and she was so stunning even 8 years ago. And don;t even get me started on that walking mess of an outfit in the header image – individually they are all lovely pieces (the dress is lovely, but the pose isn’t flattering) – but together; ich.
I agree that the modelling and fashion industry doesn’t cause anorexia (references to wasting diseases are documented in private journals in the 19th century and before), and it is a serious psychological condition. However, such bombardment of images do normalise excessive thinness and as the most fashionable clothes are cut to suit that endomorphic shape, it creates the market for excessive thinness. A huge number of teenage girls have issues with food, and when they get together not eating can become competitive. this is not a recent phenomenon by a long chalk.
Anyway – on supermodels. Naomi was the most striking and stunning thing on the planet when she first broke and I heard of her before any of the others. But my God was I a Helena Christiensen fan! That woman knew how to pose. I thought Karen Mulder was the prettiest of the blonde supers, until she melted.
maybe the whole modeling industry can starve themselves into oblivion… I’d love to know if it’s possible… I hope so 😀
yaaayyyy for cindy! love her! and christy turlington. and claudia. and linda. naomi, not so much. iman is the most beautiful woman that has ever walked the planet, in my opinion. that woman is, like, 50s/60s and still looks like that and she doesnt even look botox-y?? she has got to be an alien. the *real* “supers” were and still are MUCH sexier – and more appealing to men – than the current girls. christy is still all over fashion mag ads, claudia, eva and naomi just did a campaign for i think D&G, cindy and linda basically do whatever the hell they want – they all stayed relevant, didnt turn into drug addicts/nut jobs (except naomi), and managed themselves, their money and their careers like the businesswomen they are. there’s still no way cindy crawford represents the “average” woman, but i get her point.
I think that Cindy looks great 🙂
True, Hannah, there are more overweight people than anorexics. But anorexia can kill you a lot quicker than excess weight. If you get too fat at age 17, it’s not going to kill you at 17. If you get too thin at 17 because of anorexia, you can die. And there’s a whole cult around anorexia, websites showing emaciated girls, with chat rooms where girls trade non-eating tips. Emaciated models glamorize the image of anorexia to the girls who are susceptible.
Love her. Always have. And I loved Linda E too and Karen Mulder- who now looks nothing like she did in her prime, which is a mighty shame.
The so called ‘Super Models’ these days aren’t all that super or even that memorable.
I love runway models! The thinner the better!I’ve always been thin (too thin in my opinion)so I feel voluptuous by comparison. Bring on the protruding bones and bobbleheads 🙂
BTW, Christy T was the hottest!
Raven: save your money, her stuff is absolute junk!
Oh Elle, yeah she’s beautiful!
True dorrie, but like i said, why don’t people call for less attractive models? As if that doesn’t cause young girls to have issues, seeing flawless women everywhere. I mean, what about plastic surgery? (more people get plastic surgery than people who have eating disorders…just saying)
And while yes, some people will develop a serious issue due to thin models, most don’t. And eating disorders tend to involve more than just wanting to emmulate thin people, there are a lot of control issues involved. Its like the tv/music arguement to me. yes, some kids are deeply impacted by what they see and hear on tv, but most people aren’t turning into killers.
I don’t know…I just think we blame the media too much, when maybe we should be more involved in our childrens lives and well-being.
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