Cynthia Ann Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois on February 20, 1966, the daughter of Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker) and John Dan Crawford.
She has two sisters, Chris and Danielle.
She has stated that her family has been in the U.S. for generations and
that her ancestry is mostly German, English, and French.
By appearing in an episode of
Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013, she discovered that her ancestors included English nobility and continental royal families of the Middle Ages, and that she was descended from Charlemagne.
She was discovered at the age of 16 by a newspaper photographer who noticed her at work during her summer job of detasseling
corn and took a picture of her. The photo and positive feedback she
received were enough to convince her to take up modeling. She entered
the Elite Model Management's Look of the Year contest at 17 and was the runner-up. Elite Model Management in Chicago then started representing her.
Crawford has consistently ranked highly on lists of the world's sexiest people. She was ranked number 5 on
Playboy's list of the 100 Sexiest Stars of the 20th century. A 1997
Shape magazine survey of 4,000 picked her as the second (after Demi Moore) most beautiful woman in the world. In 2002, Crawford was named one of the 50 Most Beautiful People by
People magazine. In her forties, she claimed No. 26 in the 2006 Hot 100 issue of
Maxim magazine.
Fashion designer Michael Kors summed up her impact.
Crawford was married to actor Richard Gere from 1991 to 1995. She married former model Rande Gerber on May 29, 1998. They have two children, son Presley Walker (born July 2, 1999)
and daughter Kaia Jordan (born September 3, 2001).
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