The talk show host asked the then-20-year-old to “stand up [for] just a moment,” telling her studio audience, “This is what I call a body.”
Looking back, the supermodel, now 57, said, “I was like the chattel or a child, be seen and not heard. When you look at it through today’s eyes, Oprah’s like … ‘Show us why you’re worthy of being here.'”Cindy Crawford felt “like chattel” on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” in 1986.Apple TVShe felt “seen and not heard” during the show.
“Watching it back I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, that was so not OK really,'” Crawford noted. “Especially from Oprah!”, Crawford opened up about struggling to get her parents on board with her job.,” she said of John Crawford. “He thought modeling was, like, another name for prostitution.”While Cindy initially wanted to be “a nuclear physicist or the first woman president, the two biggest jobs [she] could think of,” she pursued modeling after posing for a local photographer as a teen.
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