Cindy Crawford is naked in Allure magazine. And 43.
[UPDATE: More pix from the shoot after the jump....]
I looked at this photo for a while before deciding my position. I wonder what yours will be when I tell you she posed like this for the "anti-aging' issue of the US beauty mag Allure.
And that the caption on the photo reads: "This is what 43 looks like" – [coughbullshitcough]
"Cindy Crawford's skin-care regimen includeds a day cream with antioxidants, a sunscreen, a night cream, and an eye cream. She also swears by microdermabrasion – and protecting the skin on her hands, neck, and chest."
Look. She's hot. She looks hot. But I'm going to go out on a limb here and venture that there are a few other ways Cindy Crawford looks like this and I'm not just referring to genetics. THIS is what shits me. Not the fact that she's done whatever to herself. Fine. She's Cindy Crawford and her brand is about looking young and beautiful and whatever. Her choice.
But to say "THIS IS WHAT 43 LOOKS LIKE" and pretend it's all about her fucking antioxidants? That's right up there with Nicole Kidman insisting it's all about the sunscreen.
Because as hot as Cindy looks – and as much as any woman is entitled to look as hot as she wants to (this isn't about all women over the age of 25 putting bags on their heads and retreating to comfortable shoes) – this is NOT what 43 looks like – unless you have had serious injectibles AT LEAST. AND A SHIT-LOAD OF AIR-BRUSHING ON TOP OF THAT. There. I said it.
Now it must be said that Cindy did not write the caption. They are not direct quotes – they are the magazine's words. I did a bit of digging and found this quote from Cindy last year:
"Past a certain age, creams work on the texture of your skin but to
restore elasticity, I count on Botox, collagen and vitamin injections.
I have a very simple, healthy life that works miracles. I drink a lot
of water, watch what I eat, and exercise. But I owe the quality of my
skin to my cosmetic surgeon."
The magazine not mentioning all this, all the SURGERY involved in looking the way Cindy Crawford does at her age? Not to mention all the photoshopping????
THAT, my friends, is why so many of us look in the
mirror and think: "Why don't I look like that when I'm the same age, or
younger?"
Shameful.
More pix from the shoot:
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Nah, I’d still pick the 1988 photo of hers where she sits naked and her ass is shown. I’ve always considered it a special sort of nudity, a ‘regal’ one, for whom only the sophisticated men can sigh!
Oh Phil. Try to keep up.
Nobody is making catty remarks about Cindy. She looks amazing. That’s fine.
The objection is that Allure suggests that Cindy’s extraordinary skin and figure at 43 is thanks to the mere application of suncream, moisturiser and a little sturdy exfoliating, when Cindy herself has clearly said she relies on FAR MORE.
In fact, I believe it was Cindy behind the famous quote: “Women get depressed because they look at pictures of models in magazines and think ‘I don’t look like that.’ Well, we don’t look like that either.”
Nobody says we don’t want to look at pictures of beautiful women in magazines. But in the case of a magazine that is ostensibly devoted to helping women look their best, it would be nice if they were a bit more honest about what it really takes to look like Cindy Crawford at 43.
I have to say that I have been using her skin care range for 3 years and it’s incredible. My skin is fantastic and soft. I look younger than I did 3 years ago and considering between now and then I’ve had my daughter and many sleepless nights that’s saying something!
I’m a guy with many years in marketing and some knowledge of the cosmetic & media industries. Mia’s article just proves that journos are just giving their opinions &/or writing to fill a page. Just look at the ads on Mia’s homepage: all anti-aging products! Some facts:
1. Women aren’t stupid. They know that perfect looks, even for a genetically superior supermodel, cannot last for ever. The headline that so fascinated Mia would have been disregarded by most people (men and women).
So, I don’t buy that most women would believe Cindy did it without a lot of ‘work’.
2. Women have been tampering with their bodies for ages: the Chinese with their bound feet (to keep them small), African tribes stretching skin (to make them look sexy); so botox and photoshop are just ‘advances’ in time.
3. Mia has been an editor of magazines famous for their reliance on the myths of ’superwomen’: hot in bed, brilliant in the kitchen and an angel at work. Such articles on Cindy are just more ‘porn for women’ incl celebrity worship and food recipes. Women like that stuff, just like many men take a look at girlie mags and sports reports, but I doubt that neither sex take any of it too seriously.
4. Where do you draw the line, ladies? Men are famous for thinking they are still sex on legs even when they can’t see their legs over their paunches. Until women are happy to go au naturel with little or no make-up, cheap shampoos and no invasive surgery, I can’t see much changing.
TheRealSydney: not sure how you can attest to the wonders of yoga, if you’ve also had ‘all that stuff’ done too! And as for inversion poses, they certainly help with strength, balance and circulation, but overturn the laws of gravity they do not. Sheesh.
Tim, you lost me at “dudes riding a penny farthing”. The point is not whether Cindy has had work done, or whether there is something wrong with that, and the general response here is not one of ‘rubbishing’. She looks flipping fantastic and how she goes about that is her choice. That she is honest about it is admirable.
What is it with wankers thinking that women are pathetic, one-dimensional creatures who spend their time “rubbishing other women who are better looking than them”?
I think the concerning issue with airbrushing and botox yet claiming this is because of anti oxidants & creams is what messages it sends to women and young girls. One, about how they are not beautiful unless they wear make up (if they want to look like Cindy), and other, more serious one is how much money they spend on beauty products to look beautiful. I turn 45 this year and out of curiosity sent a photo to Notebook Magazine for a Olay Regerist competition. I was selected to be featured in Notebook magazine, and was sent some of their products to try. Turn up at the photoshoot, and the final picture is based on tonnes of make up, airbrushing and the works. My comments were edited and “the surgeon” who suggested what I should do for my skin, never saw me!
Then they talk about governance and misleading advertisements etc. When is this going to stop and who is going to stop it?
What is with the bread pic?
THat is just plain creepy!
Mia, I just love it when you swear. I got as far as ‘fucking antioxidants’ and went straight to the comment box.
Couldn’t agree more.
If you had magazines of famous but ordinary looking women would you look at them?
Posted by: Phil (yes a man) | March 26, 2009 at 04:53 PM
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Would you?
How about I put a cat amongst the pigeons!
If you had magazines of famous but ordinary looking women would you look at them? Clearly the fact that so many of you have clicked through to have a look and then moan about it shows two things to me. A. you do like looking at these glam photos of famous people and B. you are all a bit jealous really and love nothing more than to be catty about other people.
I totally accept that magazines peddle crap and dress this crap up as beautiful crap, but nonetheless its still crap. Mia does a fine job of keeping it real and I love reading all your daft comments.
The blue touch paper is now lit and i will stand well back………………
Tim, is it really that hard for you to understand what the majority of the posts are saying here?!
Cindy is not being bagged out at all. The point is that Allure is saying that this is what 43 looks like. NO, ACTUALLY THIS IS NOT WHAT 43 LOOKS LIKE! This is an image that has been airbrushed – it is fiction not fact.
I Googled some images of Cindy and yes she is very fit and lean, but on top of her muscular tummy she has that stretched wobble that comes from having children. I came across the image on a blog page – the blogger was having a total melt down because Cindy was no longer perfect and oh my god she had cellulite! I mean, how could such a disaster occur? What a fucking idiot, I could have strangled him! This is a perfect example of the problem. These images and lack of education create ridiculous ideals and expectations. It is like the media are putting used by dates on the female body – after a certain age a body is no longer sexy, and no longer valid.
Does anyone remember when Jamie Lee Curtis posed naked or near naked in that magazine a few years ago? There was a big hoohah because she demanded that no airbrushing was allowed, and she was 43. And she LOOKED 43, for real (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2002/08/27/ED242187.DTL&o=)
What a brave woman. I find her courage appealing and sexy, not Cindy Crawford’s contrived, fake look. Honestly, how vain and narcissistic can you be, and the gall to imply that if you don’t look like this at 43, you are not trying hard enough.
I like Cindy Crawford. But I don’t like what this represents.
“Because as hot as Cindy looks – and as much as any woman is entitled to look as hot as she wants to (this isn’t about all women over the age of 25 putting bags on their heads and retreating to comfortable shoes) – this is NOT what 43 looks like – unless you have had serious injectibles AT LEAST. AND A SHIT-LOAD OF AIR-BRUSHING ON TOP OF THAT. There. I said it.”
I’m 21 and I dont look like that! And I never ever will!!!!
I’m so over it. The endless ‘this is what x age looks like’. its like seeing Helen Mirren in a bikini. Spiral of depression that a woman roughly 3 times my age looks better than me in a bikini.
Now, I just dont give a damn. I like the fact that I’m curvy and look slightly unconventional. Different is good.
hahaha – I showed one of my friends this pic and said how hot is this ? and he said “f*ck i wouldn’t know whether to shave her, lick it off or throw her in the shower”
These types of articles just annoy me. Does any woman look at these picture and think they are real? I just figure she’s been airbrushed and botoxed to death.
Plus points off Cindy because every time I see her with her kids her daughter seems to have a face full of make up (I think she’s not even 10 yet). I shudder to think what message she’s passing on to her kids.
heyjude my thoughts exactly!!!!
43 is not old, when did everyone decide it was old?????
Hey 43 isn’t actually that old you know, really.
If you’re healthy and have had good nutrition all your life and aren’t overweight and haven’t overdone the substances (and yes, you’re born with good looks and a well proportioned body) there’s no reason why at 43 you can’t look perfectly ok.
Maybe not airbrushed and botoxed supermodel good, but pretty good all the same.
I just don’t think it’s actually that surprising that a woman of 43 can look hot.
We don’t need unrealistically high standards but at the same time I don’t think we need to have the expectation that over 40 equals total decreptitude.
I’m not that into her – but I think she looks fantastic! – she’s an icon
I know in a million years I will never look like her – anyone who thinks that even with botox and photoshopping they would manage to look as hot as her – is kidding themselves!
Touche Mia! No wonder we are made to feel inferior as we age when we are fed all this crap by the media and the lies of celebrities. What on earth is wrong with embracing old age or at least if you want to delay it admitting to procedures you have had. Bloody anti-oxidants by a… I have seen countless photos of Cindy Crawford over the years in the sun with her family. There is no way she would look that good even if she did use sunscreen. She looks great but has definitely had help and only a fool would believe otherwise.
Well Gig, I see it that way lol.
Modest is the hottest.
I suspect it’s not really what 43 looks like, and I suspect it’s also not really what having a shower looks like.
I like the robot/toothbrush pic, presumably a homage to the kd lang/shaving one? It’s also interesting how much she looks like Gisele Bundchen in the “attacking a loaf of bread” photo, which just goes to show how much things don’t change.
Ohhh I think the soapy photo is hot! But then I also *cough really enjoy porn. I’m slightly worried she might get soap in her eye tho Ha ha
The robot photo freaks me out – and the bread one I love, that’s how I feel when I go past a bakery in the morning mmmmm back before ‘carbs were bad’ i used to do that to fresh, hot bread right before I scoffed the inside.
ANYHO, Jade I have no idea what that thing is on Christy’s forehead I did not notice until you pointed it out. Perhaps it’s from all the bloodflow to the head due to loads of yogic shoulder stands!!??
Jaz, lighten up, it’s a beautiful female body, naked, with soap. In a few hundred years it may be regarded as a classic example of early 21st Century photography. It’s only porn if you see it that way.
I certainly don’t.
First things first. That picture is disgusting. I feel nervous just looking at it. It looks like a frame from a porn movie.
Bah I just lost all respect for her and allure magazine. No surgery my ass.
I’ve learnt to just roll my eyes at all of them.
Cindy is stunning I have seen pics of her with her mum and sisters and yes I think it all comes down to genes. My mother is in her late 60’s and she looks way younger than her age, no surgery, botox, just really healthy living and good genes. My sisters and I are the same we don’t look our age. I agree with Danya I have come across a few celebs at airports, cafes and I have no idea who they are until kindly pointed out. What type of complex do they have? Seeing themselves in mags photoshopped to no end then looking at themselves in a mirror, must be one hell of a shock.
I don’t buy glossy mags anymore and even my very favourite staple, Who weekly, is only in my trolley basket once every few weeks instead of religiously each Friday.
THEY BORE ME. THEY LIE. They don’t represent me or anybody I know and I’m really, really over it.
I think it is pretty poor of Allure magazine to make Cindy’s beauty seem natural when she is more than happy to admit it!
It just demonstrates that magazines will say anything in the name of keeping their advertisers happy!
I think she is stunning and I love that she is happy to talk about how she gets like that! She doesn’t just pretend that she is naturally blessed with genes that make her look 20 years younger.
Geez Tim – in an effort to aggravate you totally missed what most of us were saying – no one was rubbishing Cindy (except NJ) – she’s stunnning.
I personally don’t care if she has had stuff done – I’ve had all that stuff done – it’s taken at least 7 or 8 years off the way I look.
But, Allure is a beauty magazine (not a producer of beauty products), so it obviously has to pander to it’s advertisers BUT what we are saying is that perhaps some of us rely on these types of publications to ‘advise & inform’ us … and clearly they are not telling the whole story – which makes some women feel unnecessarily inadequate.
I usually think you have some valid points but today you’re just being a tool.
Cindy would be loving this ‘anti-age’ cover as it would help her flog off more of HER SKIN CARE RANGE. Perhaps thats why there is no mention of botox – because all you have to do to look just like her is buy her cream. Yes, sadly have seen her late night or early morning infommercials when up with the baby…
Tim Mcintyre, for once ,I agree with you!
Hey Tim, I think Dove took that advice and used regular women (shock horror, even ‘mature’ women) in their advertising campaigns – And to my knowlege it DID work. I know I for one, loved those campaigns and was more than happy to by products that were sold using normal, but beautiful looking and diverse women as their representatives. More reality I say!
At least when Our Nic says “sunscreen”, her pale complexion makes it obvous that she does indeed use sunscreen. But Cindy, with her permatan? Umm, surrre.
wow tim – after silently reading your previous posts and some what siding with you, that one was just mean…
What is it with women and rubbishing other women who are better looking than them. Yeah, no shit Cindy Crawford looks good at 43, she’s a supermodel. Allure saying it’s due to antioxidants is obviously trying to sell products, not report the news. Derr!
Lots of advertisements use good looking people to sell their products, but no one thinks it’s cause they consume them. I don’t think that 2 dudes riding a penny farthing and wearing face paint would go into hungry jacks and have some smug chick behind the counter make a ‘holding a burger’ signal to them.
Who cares if she’s had stuff done?
I know, why doesn’t Allure use a middle-aged Aussie mum to sell their creams? That would be great for business!
And whoever is insulted because magazines treat you as dumb, it serves you right for buying the stupid things.
Temmy why does she have that weird bulging vein thing in her forehead (as seen in the pic you linked to)
This is going to do wonders for the self-esteem of every other 43 year old woman. Allure should tell readers that while she may not have had surgery (this is arguable) she has botox etc. Plus she was a supermodel. So really, bit of an unfair advantage!
Well i’ve got to say, my mum is almost fifty but looks nothing like it. Her skin is amazing and has a better body than I do at nineteen. She eats extremely well, not for ‘thiness’ but for health. Looks after her skin and has always been very active. So I think there is something to be said for genetics.
Yoga does keep you looking younger – I can attest to that – it’s all the inverted (upside down) poses that help with that – they reverse the action of gravity on the body.
There are four major systems in the body that the practice of inversions positively influences: cardiovascular, lymphatic, nervous, and endocrine!
YAY FOR YOGA !!
oh damnit, where did my point go??
It was a small correction that technically ‘botox, collagen and vitamin injections’ are not SURGERY.
I was also saying that Christy T turned 40 at the end of last year and looks amazingly youthful – she swears by yoga and is publically very anti-botox.
It sounded better the first time ha ha
Ahhh here we go – to prove my point.
http://www.fabsugar.com/1109673
And before you all say she has botox on her forehead, I saw another photo of her with her eyebrows raised and full sets of lines across so it didn’t look like it.
Maybe there is something to be said for healthy living?
I love Cindy, she did a tour of her house and a bit of her day to day life on Oprah a couple of years back and she seemed so down to earth. Her home was beautiful and her husband is sooooo HOT!! Lucky her!!
I’d just like to point out that technically, botox, collagen and vitamin injections are not surgery.
BUT it is a terrible shame the magazine does not go so far as to be truthful about that.
Then again… we all know how heavily photoshopped these would be.
Have you seen photos of Christy Turlington lately? She looks incredible and she turned 40 at the end of last year. She swears she has never had anything done and reckons yoga keeps her young. Well, I’m off to buy me a yoga mat!
I think that as beautiful as she is, botox and a line free face doesn’t actually make her look younger. It makes her look a bit waxen and characterless and…. boring? Having said this, I am all for people doing whatever they wish in the pursuit of beauty and everlasting youth if it makes them happy. I just don’t think it always works, then they just look like they are trying hard to look a way they just can’t any more, and where and when do they stop?
Love Cindy though for being honest.
Amen, sister!
If we really want to get back at the media or feeding us this kind of bullshit, I think we should declare a Cindy Crawford ban – go away already. And under no circumstances should women buy mags like this. Women unite!
To think they’re delivering shitty messages to women AND making money out of it! Makes me angry too.
Hear, hear Mia. Well said. You’re absolutely right that it’s the misleading ‘I only wear sunscreen’ bullshit that gets us so riled up.
How these magazines can think we are really that DUMB is beyond me. It just makes me even more determined not to buy them. Especially when Cindy has come out herself to publicly pay tribute to her cosmetic surgeon (for which I tip my hat to her).
I get that Allure is a beauty magazine and is therefore all about what’s on the outside. No real interest in that, but no particular problem either. They can write about foundation and botox and anti-ageing creams until the cows come home. But don’t plaster the magazine with airbrushed supermodels and tell us that ‘THIS IS WHAT 43 LOOKS LIKE’ if you use antioxidant cream. Fuck. Off.
Okay, end rant.
Oh, and you were great on the Today Show this morning. No undereye evidence of sleep deprivation!
Some more pre and post airbrushed goodies
http://www.dlisted.com/node/31300
The woman was a supermodel, for God’s sake, so she had a bit of a head start right there. Add in all the maintenance and assistance and it’s no surprise she looks that good.
I have seven years to go until I reach that milestone and I’ll be lucky to stop my tits and stomach merging by then. Ho hum.
Gee wizz, no wonder the rest of us have issues.
Many years ago I worked for the company that put together and air brushed the Bendon catalogues. What you end up seeing in the magazines is a computer painting so far removed from the original photo. Under no circumstances does Elle look like she does in her pictures and I think over the years this has driven her to inject, stretch, plump within an inch of her life.
I think Cindy Crawford does the same, they start craving the airbrushed ideal. Not them, nor the mags will admit they are all lying
I love it when you swear Mia … feisty … grrr!
This is exactly why I stopped buying magazines (this year) after a 25 year love affair with them.
I got sick of them telling me how I should look and what I should wear !!
And many hours in the gym each week. Most of us have to fit some exercise in between the other commitments our lives throw at us. We dont have the luxury of staff to do it all for us while we work out as much as we want to.
That is also why she looks so hot….