Cindy Crawford Explains Why Too Much Cosmetic Surgery Is Not Sexy

Cindy Crawford has recently admitted to using botox to fight the aging process, but she also warns women to refrain from relying on too much cosmetic surgery to improve their looks.


Describing the excessive use of cosmetic surgery as "unsexy," the 43 year-old former supermodel says:

"If you're not careful you end up looking perfect but not real. And that's not very sexy."

Cindy Crawford's view on cosmetic surgery has definitely taken some influence from her husband, Rande Gerber, and his close friend George Clooney who could not understand why anyone would go under the knife to alter their appearance:

"I don't think guys like it. My husband hates that stuff, he'd be angry if I did it. He and George (Clooney) talk about it and say, 'Have you ever not gone out with a girl because her lips aren't big enough?' Of course they haven't. They always ask me why women do this stuff to themselves. And I don't know. The doctors who do it lose their eye for it because they're doing so much. But I think it'll change."

Nonetheless, Cindy Crawford understands the pressure of staying gorgeous and "young" for women like her age, especially those who are also in the beauty/fashion industry. With her admittance to using botox to maintain the radiance of her skin, she has also been quoted as saying:

"I'm not going to lie to myself: past a certain age, creams work on the texture of your skin but, in order to restore elasticity, all I can really count on is vitamin injections, Botox and collagen."

She believes that a little nip or tuck is only natural for someone of her stature.

"Because people have such expectations of what they are going to find when they see me, that brings added pressure to fight the aging process. But don't get me wrong. I think I'm holding together pretty good!"

And by "holding together pretty good," the model means not obsessing on cosmetic surgeries and succumb to the pressure of staying young.

"You think about it the older you get, the pressure builds, definitely, especially in my kind of profession. But the women I think look great either don't do it or are very subtle about it."

FYI, Cindy Crawford likes to maintain her gorgeous looks to be called "MILF," an abbreviated slang term (generally vulgar) used to describe a sexy woman who has children. Being a wife to a businessman and a mother to two children aged 10 and 7, she believes that her personality has been effected by the aging process and that people does not find her as attractive as they once did. Nonetheless, she hopes people still thinks she is sexy.

"Age can be daunting, but you can't stop it. I know 20-year-old guys don't look at me anymore. I don't feel it like I used to. I remember walking down streets in New York at the height of my modeling career, my hair up, and all the construction guys would go crazy. It's different now.

"I don't want to be a cougar, I want to be a MILF. I hate that word 'cougar' and what it represents. MILF is a word I absolutely love. I like that tag because I think there is a worry for all models that the moment you have kids the perception of you is going to change."

Models Lose Cosmetic Contracts To Celebrities

Supermodel Tyra Banks blamed the celebrities for models not getting lucrative deals with cosmetic giants. She believed that models lose cosmetic contracts to celebrities as actresses and singers strike deals with cosmetic companies these days.

“I think all supermodels now are losing out to celebrities. It’’s celebrities who are getting the cosmetics contracts,” says the supermodel-turned-TV host.

Two of the famous celebrities that become faces of cosmetics company today are Eva Mendes who did the controversial TV ad for Calvin Klein and Beyonce Knowles who is a spokesmodel for L”Oreal.

And so the catwalk queen believed that because cosmetic companies prefer celebrities to do the campaign ads, hard-up models will have hard time landing on money-spinning deals with fashion, make-up, and fragrance firms.

That celebrities becoming the faces of make-up and fragrance companies is a growing trend that almost everyone already know. What's there to be discussed about should be the answer to this trend. While Tyra Banks insists that models lose cosmetic contracts to celebrities, she did not mention any possible solution to the situation.