Read Why Cindy Crawford Was Terrified of Turning 50
When you’re as beautiful as Cindy Crawford, aging can be terrifying. The now 51-year old supermodel recently told Dujour that when she turned 50, she was anything but optimistic.
“For me it was really hard; the idea of turning 50 was daunting,” she said. “For so long I was the 20-year-old model on the cover of Vogue, or 25 or 30 — and then all of a sudden my daughter is becoming that.”
Her daughter, Kaia Gerber, is also pursuing modeling and has become a very sought after talent.
“I don’t want to spend my fifties trying to get back to where I was in my thirties,” she explained. “Even though, yes, maybe I would like my skin or my waistline to be the same, I’ve worked hard and evolved into this person.”
As far as Cindy enrolling last fall in a three-day financial bootcamp for women at UCLA: “I loved being in the classroom again,” she said. “It was especially nice to do it with other women. You don’t want to be embarrassed, asking a stupid question, but I think we all felt we were in a safe enough environment.”
She added: “Because of social media, you see that beauty isn’t rare. Beauty is everywhere we look — I think that’s very empowering for women. Before we only had a handful of women who were appearing in magazines. Now you can go on Instagram and someone you’ve never heard of, who maybe only has one follower or maybe has nine million — you see they’re beautiful. Sometimes it’s the filter, but I think women are emerging through. I’m not stranger to filters, but women can recognize their own beauty.”