Supermodel Cindy Crawford is one of the most influential figures in the fashion world, but she admitted her sisters used to call her beauty mark “ugly” when they were younger
Cindy Crawford has admitted she used to ‘hate’ a part of her appearance.
The supermodel, who turns 59 today (February 20), never fails to wow fans with her ageless beauty and glamorous looks. The star has graced the cover of countless magazines over the years – including Vogue and Playboy – and dazzled on the catwalk for the likes of Chanel.
And who could forget when she recreated her iconic 1992 Pepsi advert in her famous tank top and hot pants combo? However, she’s admitted she used to dislike her trademark mole just about her lip and nearly got it removed.
The superstar, who began modelling in high school, was told she’d have to remove her beauty mark if she wanted a successful career in the industry. However, Cindy’s mum stopped her from getting the surgery and it’s since become part of her iconic look.
She opened up to fellow supermodel Naomi Campbell about the mole on her limited series No Filter With Naomi. Cindy said: “When I went to my first modelling agency… it was in Chicago.
“It was a tiny little agency, I don’t even remember the name of it. They said I should remove it and my mother was like, “Ok, you can do that but you don’t know what the scar will look like. You know what your beauty mark looks like.”
Cindy decided to keep her beauty mark, but many publications covered it up with makeup or edited out of their photographs. “So, I started modelling a little bit and in Chicago some people tried to cover it up.
“It’s not flat, you can’t cover up my mole otherwise it looks like a gigantic pimple. Chicago seemed fine but when I worked in Japan, sometimes they would retouch it off.” Asked how she felt about magazines wanting to hide the mole, Cindy admitted she didn’t used to like it either.
“I didn’t really – as a kid I hated having a beauty mark. My sisters called it an ugly mark. I feel like we always want what we don’t have. Like girls with curly hair want straight hair, girls with straight hair always want curly hair.”
However, American Vogue decided to keep the mole in their photographs of Crawford, and this helped the supermodel embrace the beauty mark. “When I did my first American Vogue cover with Richard Avedon and Polly Melon, I didn’t know if they would leave it on or not, and then they did and I think once it was on the cover of American Vogue then it wasn’t an issue anymore.”
She said the beauty mark has helped inspire other women to embrace their natural looks. She added: “Many women have beauty marks and when they saw me on the cover of Vogue or in a magazine with my beauty mark it made them feel more comfortable with their own beauty mark”.
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