Dallas County Living Well Magazine March/April 2016 | Page 10

MARCH/APRIL 2016

SPOTLIGHT

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the businesses I’m
working on.... And I
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other people.

Referencing the topic of plastic surgery, she
told Fashionista: “Not only my job but in
our society, everyone else is doing it—do I
need to do it? But then you see some people
and think, ‘Well, I don’t want to end up looking like that so is it better to look old?’ I’m
still trying to figure that out, I guess, where
I personally want to draw that line.”
Still, it’s always been the fact that Crawford wasn’t your standard beauty that has
made her so relatable over the years.

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always wants to plan things for my birthday,
and we always end up canceling and having dinner at home with the kids, and I’ll do
baked potato and caviar. But I don’t know.
The buildup is worse than the reality. That’s
what I found at 40. Now it’s finally happening and then it will be over and I will be 50.
I will feel the same, I feel great. But it’s daunting. It’s a big number, especially for women.
You can’t pretend you’re a girl anymore. You
might feel girlie inside but you hopefully are
kinda like, this is who I am with my flaws.”
Embracing her flaws, Crawford has publically shared that she has undergone
some plastic surgery over the years—but
she’s quick to admit that she’s not encouraging everyone to go that route.

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“I love the fact that I had a beauty mark and that
I became a symbol of beauty that helped other
women embrace their differences. And that I
had brown eyes, not blond hair and blue eyes,”
she told the Los Angeles Times. “The generation
before me, Kelly Emberg and Christie Brinkley,
were that blond, tan, Sports Illustrated girl look.
My generation, Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, we all looked different. We helped broaden the idea of beauty.”
Cindy today and tomorrow
Crawford’s resume is nothing short of ground
breaking.
As a supermodel, she’s been featured in
thousands of magazines, has worked with
hundreds of brands, and made the transition to TV and film. She’s been voted
one of the world’s most beautiful or sexi-