Model Cindy Crawford at Disneyland in Anaheim (Photo : REUTERS/MARIO ANZUONI)
Supermodel Cindy Crawford will give her fans a glimpse into her private life through her latest autobiography, including the details behind her wedding to Richard Gere and the reasons behind her keeping her facial mole which has become a synonymous trademark of the model.
As the model nears her 50th birthday, Crawford is quoted as saying she has no regrets and has finally become the confident woman portrayed in the images which appear in her autobiography "Becoming" authored by herself and Katherine O'Leary, Daily Mail reported.
Coming from a blue-collar family in Illinois, Crawford soon discovered that she could earn more from modeling than working in cornfields. The latter had been her job every summer since she entered the eighth grade in school.
The model, who earned for herself a full academic scholarship to a university in Chicago to study Chemical Engineering, chose a career in modeling instead after a stint of in the field in Europe during the first summer after graduating high school.
During Crawford's initial attempts of modeling she became more conscious of her facial mole. However, her mother's attitude towards having it removed she recalls in her book was simple, "You know what your mole looks like. You don't know what a scar will look like."
While the mole stayed, with many agencies suggesting she have it removed, her appearance on the cover of American Vogue was a turning point. The cover trademarked her signature look with the mole cementing her career forever. Crawford writes that the mole never became an issue thereafter.
With many fans heartbroken over Crawford's split with "Pretty Woman" actor Gere, the model reveals that the wedding felt "surreal" as a pose to her marriage to current husband Rande Gerber with whom she had two children.
Despite the 17-year age difference, Crawford says Gere taught her about being famous, and many other things which she took from that as a young model who was still trying to find her way, E! Online reported.
Crawford's autobiography which is being published by Rizzoli International Publications is set to hit shelves next month and the supermodel herself will attend a book signing in the United Kingdom.
