Quotes

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse . . . I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

I don't want to have to be beautiful all the time. I want to be able to look cruddy in my weekend sweats, with a pimple on my face and pimple cream on top of the pimple. The expectation to always be beautiful bothers me.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

When I did "Playboy", I got letters from women who didn't consider it feminist to do nude photographs. I thought the whole POINT of being a feminist was that you got to make your own choices.

[in People magazine, 1/11/93] Even I don't look like Cindy Crawford in the morning.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

[on her return to the runway for Fashion Week in 2002] The other models looked at me with a little too much awe like, "Oh my God, I've been your biggest fan for over 20 years!" And I'm like, "How old are you? Shut up!"

The only annoying thing about being recognized is the whispering. You can hear, "Is that Cindy?" And then they follow me for blocks. I wish they'd just come up and say, "Hi".

One day my girlfriend and her boyfriend and I were sunbathing topless because that's Barbados--you can wear nothing if you want. And the Pepsi guy walks up and with my agent to meet us for lunch. I saw him coming and wondered, Should I put on my top because I have a business relationship with him? I didn't want him to get offended because the rest of the beach had seen me with my top off. Meanwhile as he's walking towards me, he's saying to my agent, "I hope she puts on her top.". He wasn't even being a schmuck, like wanting to see. He wanted to keep our relationship professional. I left it off and it was fine with everyone.

Our sex life has been ruined by the arrival of our first baby. We can't be so spontaneous because we don't want the nanny to hear us. We can't scream and yell like we used to.

I regret that I wasn't wilder. I was working and I was nervous. I was the the one in the corner with the book being responsible.

If I'm comfortable with the photographer, I'll do topless.

I was at dinner in Milan with several big photographers and several of the big models at the time, and there people snorting coke right there. I called my my mom and said, 'I can't do this.'

[on guilty food pleasures] Dark chocolate--it feels like a necessity!

Acting like a slut. If we're shooting bikini bottoms at a hotel, you don't walk topless through the lobby. You cover up until you get to your little area. I'm not an exhibitionist but some models are, and I get embarrassed around them because I think people then think all models are that way.

I didn't mind being topless-- but I wouldn't be comfortable without any clothes on.

I was [naked]. I think I was wearing a bottom maybe. My husband was naked. He was like the water is cold and it's not fair. I'll tell you what's really terrible was that it wasn't the paparazzi. We rented this house on St. Martin with my whole family and it was the chef from the roof and we didn't know like the whole week.

[when asked if she likes to sunbathe topless] Yeah! I just don't like the lines. Really it's only about that, but now, you know but now it's do I want my breasts to look like leather later in life. So it's about finding that balance.

[on posing nude] I can't believe they put a nipple on the cover! Everyone is more uptight than I am. I'm not going to let other people's stereotypes and problems influence me. It's my choice. And when I'm 50, I'll be happy I did these pictures. I'll go "Remember when?"

My breasts are beautiful and I gotta say: they've gotten a lot of attention for what's relatively short screen time.

[on aging well] The secret is that there's no secret. Do all the stuff we know: Don't smoke, get enough sleep, drink plenty of water, find what makes you happy.

[2016] When a 35-year-old starts taking care of her skin, she won't look different. It's when you're my age that you start seeing the payoff.

[working for MTV] I had no training in broadcasting. It was bringing together music and fashion and pop culture and putting it into a mixing bowl and we didn't really care what came out.

[how posing nude for Playboy helped her career] Fashion still was primarily female, and then all of a sudden Playboy was primarily guys. It was a very different thing. I doubled my audience by doing that. And those two things together led to MTV. They wanted someone, like a model or someone from fashion, but they also wanted someone who had male fans.

[making her own decisions] That's the whole thing for me is, even if I make choices that other people disagree with or don't like, if they're my decisions and I have control of it, that's empowering to me. Even if it's doing Playboy. I never felt like a victim of that decision.

[shooting her Playboy pictorial with Herb Ritt] Herb and I combined it with another trip that we were doing for French Vogue to Hawaii. We'd shoot a picture for French Vogue and then we'd shoot a picture for Playboy. I mean, you almost couldn't tell which pictures were for French Vogue and which pictures were for Playboy, it was very organic and I loved them.

Why wasn't I walking around naked all the time?