About Cindy Crawford
Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966) is an American model, actress and television personality. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was among the most popular supermodels and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers and runways, as well as fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into acting and business ventures. == Early life == Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois, on February 20, 1966, the daughter of Daniel Kenneth Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker). She has three sisters, Cathy, Chris and Danielle, and a brother, Jeffery, who died of childhood leukemia at age 3. On social media, she stated that her family had been in the United States for generations and that her ancestry is mostly German, Danish, English and French. She is a descendant of English Puritan settler Thomas Trowbridge, who helped establish the Congregational Church in New Haven. She was raised in the Congregationalist faith and found it "incredible" that religious values "trickled down" to her family. According to official census records, Crawford's paternal great-grandfather David Crawford was of Scottish ancestry from Northern Ireland, who in 1904 settled in Wisconsin. Appearing in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?
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