Supermodel Cindy Crawford is speaking out against Oprah Winfrey over a newly resurfaced 1986 interview in which she believes the legendary talk show host objectified her.
🚨| Cindy Crawford is lashing out at Oprah for treating her like a “novel” in an old interview
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Cindy calls Oprah
Daily Mail reported that Cindy, 57, opened up about her interview with Oprah, 69, in the new Apple TV+ docuseries “The Super Models,” which chronicles the lives and careers of Cindy and her fellow “supers.” Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista And Christy Turlington.
Cindy was only 20 years old when she went on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” with her Elite Modeling Agency representative, John Casablancas. In a clip from the docuseries, Oprah proposes to Cindy before saying, “Has she always had this body? Stand up, this is what I call a BODY!”
Cindy appeared to have a nervous smile on her face as she complied by standing up and showing the audience and viewers at home her body.
“I was like a possession or a child: seen and not heard,” Cindy said as she reflected on the interview in the docuseries. “If you look at it through today’s eyes, Oprah is saying, ‘Stand up and show me your body. Show us why you’re worth being here. ”
“The moment I didn’t recognize it and watched it back, I was like, ‘Oh my god, that wasn’t actually okay,'” she added. “Especially from Oprah!”
‘It was so NOT okay’: Cindy Crawford slams Oprah for treating her like ‘CHATTEL’ by demanding she flaunt her body on camera at 20 to prove she’s ‘worthy of fame’ – while the supermodel talks about regularly fainting from hunger for shoots pic.twitter.com/gLP6NI0fGl
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Interview continues
Elsewhere in the interview, Oprah asked her questions to John, who spoke on Cindy’s behalf. When asked if the agency had given Cindy a ‘training period’, he replied: ‘With Cindy it was much more psychological that she wasn’t sure if she really wanted to be a model… little by little her ambition grows.’
“She’s starting to get the idea, and I’m saying it now on this program: If she wants to, she can be number one in the industry,” he continued.
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The clip had been available for viewing on Oprah’s YouTube channel for years, but was quietly removed on Tuesday evening.
No apology from Oprah to Cindy Crawford. She simply deleted the interview and pretended it didn’t happen. Just like she pretended she didn’t know what Harvey Weinstein was like. She has always seen other women as tools for her own resources. pic.twitter.com/8oA8sJlXKq
— Royal Expert Princess Consuela Banana Hammock (@sage1411) September 21, 2023
Cindy went on to talk about how difficult her life was at the time of this interview, saying that she would sometimes pass out from hunger during grueling photoshoot days.
“I was 20 years old, I had dropped out of college to pursue modeling in Chicago and it was great. I was making $1,000 a day,” she recalls. “The main activity there was the catalogue. There was one main photographer, Victor Skrebneski, and he was the big fish in a small pond. Victor was certainly a mentor in the fashion industry, when Victor said, ‘Don’t move, you didn’t move.’
“I’ve fainted there more than once,” Cindy admitted. “Especially right before lunch you faint and pass out. And then they would support you again and you would do it all over again.
Watch Cindy call out Oprah herself in the video below.
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Cindy’s upbringing
At another point in the docuseries, Cindy spoke about her upbringing.
“I never felt like I looked special or different,” she recalls. “At least I wasn’t like the ugly duckling, but at my high school the pretty girls were like the little petite cheerleaders.”
“That was the idea of beauty in my small town,” she added. “I never even thought about modeling. I didn’t even know it was a real job. I didn’t know how I was going to get from DeKalb, Illinois, to a magazine.
Naomi. Cindy. Linda. Christy.
The Super Models premieres on Apple TV+ on September 20 pic.twitter.com/ijwGvGgptv
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Oprah has not yet publicly responded to Cindy’s comments about her.
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