If you ever let people affect you with what they have to say, you’ll perhaps never grow. A living example of defying norms of beauty and making her own significant identity is birthday girl and supermodel Cindy Crawford. Name one other person who looks as glamorous as her at 50.
Now we all know her as the huge celebrity that she is. But only a few know that she’s also a businesswoman and a writer (she authored her memoir Becoming). But even Cindy had to live with a big insecurity, one that sat on her million dollar face. But it was this very insecurity, the iconic mole on her upper lip, that ultimately became her claim to fame.
A LOT was said and written about her trademark mole. While sometimes she couldn’t decide if it was a good thing to have or just a nasty little imperfection. But gradually, she embraced it and never shied away from flaunting it thereafter.
The boys on her school’s football team would shout at her saying, “Hey, little Crawford, you have chocolate on your face!”
But Cindy’s mother always said, “You know what your mole looks like, but you don’t know what the scar is going to look like.”
Now, it’s so much just a part of my face that I don’t think ‘Oh, how’s my mole doing today?’ But it’s the thing that made people remember me, and it made a lot of women, who also have beauty marks identify with me. They set you apart.Cindy Crawford
My fans worry about it a lot, you know - to the point where I’m wondering whether the mole should have its own Twitter account and Instagram page, just like Harry Styles’ ponytail!Cindy Crawford
Even today she doesn’t know what she would do, if she had a fresh chance at building her face from scratch. Would she want to lose the mole or retain it? But one thing’s for sure. She doesn’t appreciate anybody else messing with her ‘trademark’ mole.
Honestly though, if I was designing my face from scratch I don’t know if I would have designed it with the mole. But when people fiddle with it in photos, I can just see the difference. I immediately know that they’ve flopped it! My whole face is different. That’s one of the things that drives me crazy.Cindy Crawford
Cindy, we don’t know about you, but your fans wouldn’t change a thing about your face, especially the mole.
PS - Carrying forward the trademark mole is her son, Presley Gerber and well, he’s decided to retain it and show it off too!
While her son has her mole, her daughter has her great looks! Wow, what luck!
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