Cindy Crawford looked up to Meryl Streep

26 October 2018

Cindy Crawford looked up to "beautiful women" like "Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep" when she was growing up and dreaming of a modelling career.

Cindy Crawford

The 52-year-old supermodel ruled the fashion world in the '90s and along with Christy Turlington, Linda Evangelista, Helena Christensen, Naomi Campbell, Elle Macpherson and Claudia Schiffer was dubbed 'The Magnificent Seven' of the catwalk.

When she was still wide-eyed and hoping to make it as a model, Cindy was a fan of the Hollywood pair's style and grace but was also interested in women who had achieved in science because she harboured ambitions of being a nuclear physicist.

She said: "I really looked up to, of course, beautiful women like Marilyn Monroe and I loved Jane Fonda and Meryl Streep. But I also like strong women and also professional women. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a nuclear physicist, so I looked up to women that were scientists."

Cindy is still a strikingly beautiful woman now she's in her sixth decade and she has been looking to the Hollywood starlets of the past and their "timeless beauty" as she alters her approach to clothes and makeup.

Speaking to Vogue UK, she said: "I'm trying to figure that out as we go along. I think timeless beauty, it's not about fashion, it's not about trend, if you look at someone like Audrey Hepburn, of course, she was undeniably, like, perfection when she was Holly Golightly ... but even as a mature woman, there was a beauty. And I think a lot of that has as much to do with who she was on the inside and what she was doing, and I saw it on her face, like her self-confidence, but also just feeling she was giving back and contributing, there's a beauty in that.

Cindy's 17-year-old daughter Kaia Gerber - who recently signed to be a Yves Saint Laurent beauty ambassador - is now following in her mother's footsteps in the modelling world and she is loves seeing her journey unfold.

The brunette beauty - who also has son Presley, 19, with her husband Rande Gerber - said: "In terms of the young models, I have a favourite, her name is Kaia, but what's been fun has been, before she was modelling, when she was 13, I was interested in who she liked and who she responded to.

"Of course, she looked up to Kendall and Gigi and Bella, but also... I'm trying to think who else she loved, like Victoria [Seretti] is one of her close friends, I like Selena Forrest. It's kind of cool being Kaia's mom because I get to know the young models as well."