Last week this image of Cindy Crawford created quite a stir on Twitter. I think Charlotte Wilder put it best when describing her reaction when she wrote, “Until last weekend, I thought of myself as the kind of woman who wasn’t affected by how the media portrays women. I thought I was too aware and too savvy to hold myself to standards of beauty that are unreal. Magazines Photoshop everybody and everything. Everyone knows that.”
I’m not posting this image to comment on how Cindy Crawford looks. I’m posting this picture because I think even jaded savvy consumers like you and me are deluded if we think we have a healthy understanding of what a gorgeous woman like Cindy Crawford looks like as she ages (quite gracefully I might add).
I don’t begrudge anyone who wants to Photoshop their photos or engage in any kind of nip and tuck to help hide their years, but I do think that we would all be better off if we kept this image firmly in mind. Cindy Crawford is beautiful, but she isn’t 18 years old so let’s stop pretending that is an ideal one can maintain. Youth is precious because it is fleeting. If it was forever it wouldn’t be coveted.
You can read more about how this photograph here.
BosGuy 
BosGuy, thank you so much for this post, and for this very important Re-Minder.
Indeed, Cindy Crawford is beautiful, and she is no longer eighteen years-of-age, and she has had at least one child (I rarely read about celebrities, so I have no idea how many children she has, nor do I feel led to look it up, but I digress).
We all age, some of us better than others, but I, also, applaud, that Cindy Crawford is completely comfortable with her body, exactly as it is and exactly as it is not.
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