Cindy Crawford: Being Beautiful Is Exhausting
Cindy Crawford in this month’s issue of Porter magazine. Photo: Pamela Hanson for Porter Magazine
Cindy Crawford’s been worrying about her looks for a long time. The 49-year-old mother of two has been modeling for 33 years and now, as she’s promoting her new book Becoming, she tells Porter magazine that she’s exhausted. “There’s no age now when you can let it all go,” she says. “Not even at 80! Look at Jane Fonda. She’s in her seventies and she still looks amazing. Sometimes I wonder, ‘When can I just relax? Oh no, I have to do this for another 20 years.’”
How depressing.
Crawford, who also opens up about daughter Kaia’s blossoming modeling career, the ‘90s, and not opening up about her marriage to Richard Gere, is pretty vocal about a cold hard truth: when your success is based on your looks, aging is a bitch.
In my thirties and even early forties, I could kind of still fake it. But then I started to worry that I was disappointing people, that I wasn’t delivering the ‘Cindy Crawford’ that they expected. But I’m past that now. I can’t even smoke-and-mirrors the Cindy from my twenties anymore. And that’s okay. What I have to offer now is different, that’s all. It’s not worse, even though the world may not always agree with you about that. And I’m pretty at peace with it.
Of course, one look at Crawford and you wonder how she couldn’t be at peace with the way she looks. The supermodel makes growing up look downright awesome. Go ahead and relax Cindy—you got this.
