Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford is an American model, businesswoman, and TV personality whose four-decade career has produced multiple defining late-1980s and 1990s international high-fashion-modeling roles — making her one of the original supermodels of the 1980s and 1990s alongside Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Tatjana Patitz. She was born Cynthia Ann Crawford on February 20, 1966, in DeKalb, Illinois. Her father John Daniel Crawford was an electrician and her mother Jennifer Sue Walker was a homemaker.

Her 1982 first amateur-modeling-competition victory at age 16 — in DeKalb, Illinois — and her subsequent 1982–1984 Chicago modeling-agency representation under Elite Model Management Chicago launched her early-1980s American modeling public profile. Her 1986 New York City relocation under Elite Model Management New York produced her 1986 American Vogue cover (the August 1986 cover) — launching her late-1980s and 1990s international high-fashion-modeling public profile.

Her 1988–1995 MTV TV-host position on the syndicated MTV-fashion-program House of Style (1989–1995) launched her late-1980s and 1990s American TV-personality public profile. Her 1992 Pepsi-Cola "Cindy Crawford Pepsi commercial" (which premiered during Super Bowl XXVI on January 26, 1992) — in which Crawford was filmed pulling up to a country gas station in a red Lamborghini, where two boys watched her exit the car and drink a Pepsi — launched her 1990s American commercial-modeling public profile.

Her parallel late-1990s later commercial-modeling work has produced multiple American Revlon, DeBeers, and Maybelline beauty-brand commercials. The 2005 founding of the Cindy Crawford Home Collection furniture brand and the 2005 Meaningful Beauty skincare-line founding (with French dermatologist Jean-Louis Sebagh) extended her later American businesswoman public profile. She was married to American actor Richard Gere from 1991 to 1995, and to American businessman Rande Gerber from 1998. The Crawford-Gerber couple has two children — model Kaia Gerber (born 2001) and Presley Gerber (born 1999).

Her name Cindy is the English diminutive of Cynthia (from the Greek Kynthia, an epithet of the Greek goddess Artemis). Cindy was a popular American girls' name through the 1950s and 1960s.