Silence
was expected of models before the 1980s. As nameless warm
blooded models they stayed on the runway and filled their
clothing (or, like Twiggy, didn’t fill anything
due to wraith like body sculpture) and did nothing else.
Many actresses got their start in modeling, and it wasn’t
considered a career.
Cindy became a personality when she began to assert her
personality before the public eye. She began to give interviews
in which she described her life, her trials, her tribulations,
and began to market herself as a feminist. These confessionals
made her human, and she began to acquire star-like status
with the media; she then became the top known model of
the early 1990s. The Cindy Crawford phenomenon continued
with her involvement in fitness videos, TV specials, commercial
endorsements, and film… but only briefly. She posed
nude for Playboy Magazine, and made that issue one of
the most popular ever.
Today Cindy continues to work, although not at the same
speed that she saw during the 1990s. She is still considered
on of the world most beautiful woman, and she openly supports
gay, lesbian, and bisexual people and their political
agendas.
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