Cindy Crawford

Cynthia Ann Crawford, born 20 February 1966 is an American actress, model and TV personality. In the 1980s and 90s she was a well-known supermodel, a prominent presence in magazines and runways as well as in fashion advertisements. The following years she began to expand her acting abilities and entered into business. In her sophomore year of high school, she received a call from a local retailer about modeling opportunities which she later discovered was a joke by two of her classmates. Crawford was hired by another store the next year to be a model for them. The store also hosted an event for fashion. In her junior year local photographer Roger Legel, whose duties included capturing a different college student to be that week's coed for the DeKalb Nite Weekly, asked to photograph Crawford for the magazine; the result was her first cover. Her positive comments and the image encouraged her to take up modeling. She initially worked for a small agency, which was acquired by Elite Model Management shortly after she signed. She entered Elite's Look of the Year contest at the age of 17 and was able to make it to the finals at the national level.