Cindy Crawford Just Opened Up About Her Relationship With Kaia and it Is So Sweet

by Charles Manning

In news that should really come as a surprise to no one, it turns out that Cindy Crawford and her 16-year-old daughter, Kaia Gerber, are incredibly tight. “I can only go, like, a week without seeing her,” Crawford told Town & Country. “We talk every day, at least, and text. If she doesn’t text me back within 15 minutes, I do one in all caps and a lot of exclamation points. Just respond, okay? Or else I’m going to track you through your Uber account.”

Crawford stars on the cover of Town & Country‘s May issue and spoke candidly with the magazine about what it is like to be a model matriarch.

Cindy Crawford (Town & Country, Victor Demarchelier)

On instilling proper values in her children, Kaia and Presley:
“I didn’t find that hard to do at all, actually. Kids don’t always listen, but they are always watching what you do. If you’re polite to people, they learn to be polite. If you make family time a priority, they don’t even question spending time together. If I’m constantly berating myself in front of them—I look old, I have more wrinkles every year, I can’t have that dessert because I’ll get fat—then they learn to do the same thing. You lead by example.”

Cindy Crawford (Town & Country, Victor Demarchelier)

On protecting her kids from fashion’s dark side:
“I’m really lucky, because I don’t have a #MeToo story. As far as being a mother of two young people going into fashion, of course I worry. But let’s be honest. My kids are blessed in that business because they aren’t coming in as unknowns. People know that I will come after them if they mess with my kids.

Cindy Crawford (Town & Country, Victor Demarchelier)

“Look, I’ve done nude photos, lots. The only ones I regretted were the ones that I kind of got talked into. I don’t want my children to ever look back and think, ‘Gosh, I wish I hadn’t done that.’ I want to empower them to just say, ‘I’m outta here.’”

Cindy Crawford (Town & Country, Victor Demarchelier)

On the early modeling lessons she gave Kaia:
“I don’t really think that you can teach how to model. It needs to come from within. But like with Kaia when she was little, about seven years old—she would play dress-up in Mom’s clothes, and I would do her hair and makeup and we would play photo shoot or runway show. I would be shooting the pictures, and I’d be like, ‘No, put your chin up,’ or ‘Hold your arm out like that.’ Probably a little of it stuck.”

Cindy Crawford (Town & Country, Victor Demarchelier)

On the one piece of advice she’s given Kaia about being on the runway:
“I think my only specific advice to her with the runway shows was just, like, personally, I don’t like seeing a girl with dead eyes and no expression walking down a runway. I don’t think it’s interesting. Yes, I know that’s what’s in style now. But I said I feel as if people want to see a personality. It’s not appropriate for every show, but I think that Kaia has found those little places. Like with the Anna Sui show she just did. Even though no one else was doing turns, all of a sudden she threw one in.”

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