Cindy Crawford

As one of the first top models to conquer the Western World, along with our own Elle McPhearson, Cynthia Ann Crawford is still as ravishing as she was in her heyday during the early nineties.

Her face was as recognisable as McDonald's golden arches, what with her trademark beauty mole above her lip, and her statuesque appearance (she's almost 5'10" tall) helped her stand out, and strikingly so.

The Crawford story starts on February 20, 1966, in the town of De Kalb, Illinois.

Her American upbringing isn't the happiest of stories - when she was eight years old, her four year old brother, Jeff, died of leukaemia and ever since, Cindy has donated a significant proportion of her earnings to leukaemia research.

Cindy Crawford was a brilliant student, who won a scholarship to study chemical engineering at the North-western University after graduating from De Kalb High School. She never graduated from university after embracing the fashion industry. Interestingly, Cindy scored perfectly on her college calculus exams, too, helping to dispel the myth of all models being air-heads.

By: http://www.webwombat.com.au/lifestyle/fashion_beauty/crawford.htm