Cindy Crawford Age 2026: How Old Is Cindy Crawford?

Last updated: November 9, 2026  ·  By Nathan Cole

Cindy Crawford is 60 years old in 2026. She was born Cynthia Ann Crawford on February 20, 1966, in DeKalb, Illinois, and she turned 60 on February 20, 2026 — a birthday she marked with the words “60 is the new 60! Grateful for all of it.” Forty-four years after a newspaper photographer spotted her detasseling corn in an Illinois field, she is still working: she walked the runway for Gucci in Times Square in May 2026 and recreated her famous 1991 surfboard photos for Parade in November 2026.

Her 60th year also brought the hardest news of her life. On September 20, 2026, her son Presley Gerber died at 27. The family has asked for privacy, the cause of death has not been disclosed, and this article reports only what reputable outlets have confirmed. It is covered once, in its own section below, and the rest of the article is what a reader searching for her age actually needs: the early life, the supermodel years, the business empire behind a $400 million combined fortune, the marriages, the children, and what she is doing at 60.

Every figure in this profile is tied to a named source and a date. Where sources disagree — most of all on the net worth, where the $400 million figure is a combined number shared with her husband — the article says so plainly instead of dressing one number up as a fact.

Who Is Cindy Crawford? The Short Answer

Cindy Crawford is an American supermodel, television personality and entrepreneur who became one of the defining faces of fashion in the late 1980s and 1990s. She was discovered at 16 in a cornfield in Illinois, became the highest-earning model in the world by 1995, hosted MTV’s House of Style for six years, starred in the most famous Pepsi commercial ever made, and then built a business empire — the Meaningful Beauty skincare line and the Cindy Crawford Home Collection — that made her richer after modeling than modeling ever did.

She is also the rare supermodel whose second act lasted longer than her first. The runway years ran from 1986 to the late 1990s. The business years have run from 2005 to today, and at 60 she is still booking the jobs other models retire from: a Gucci runway in Times Square in May 2026, a magazine cover shoot in September 2026, and a Parade feature in November 2026 recreating the surfboard photographs that made her famous in 1991.

She has been married to businessman Rande Gerber since 1998. Their daughter Kaia Gerber, born in 2001, is a model and actress. Their son Presley Gerber, born in 1999, died on September 20, 2026, at 27.

How Old Is Cindy Crawford in 2026? 60 — and She Says It Was Easy

Cindy Crawford is 60 years old in 2026. She was born on February 20, 1966, which means she turned 60 on February 20, 2026, and will turn 61 on February 20, 2027. The date is confirmed by Wikipedia, Britannica (updated October 23, 2026), and every 2026 profile that covers her. There is no competing date in circulation, and no reason to doubt it: she graduated high school as valedictorian in 1984, which fits a February 1966 birth exactly.

She marked the birthday publicly. “60 is the new 60! Grateful for all of it. Thank you for the birthday wishes,” she wrote on Instagram on February 21, 2026, according to IANS. Seven months later, in an interview with PEOPLE reported by FemaleFirst on September 11, 2026, she said the milestone had been easier than she expected: “This year I turned 60 and honestly, it was easy. That one I thought would be hard. But, look, I’m not trying to be 20 or 25.” The same interview carried the other half of the story: she has no plans to retire, and she intends to keep modeling for as long as she enjoys it.

That attitude is the through-line of her 60th year. Most models are finished by 30. Crawford is 60, and the work in 2026 — Gucci, Porter, Parade — is the kind of work models half her age compete for. The age question has a short answer, 60. The interesting answer is what she is doing with it.

Early Life: DeKalb, a Cornfield, and a Valedictorian

Cynthia Ann Crawford was born on February 20, 1966, in DeKalb, Illinois, a small town near Chicago, the daughter of John Daniel Crawford, an electrician, and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf, a bank teller. DeKalb was a working-class town, and Crawford’s childhood was ordinary in every way except one: she was the smartest student in her class and the tallest girl in the room, and both facts shaped what came next.

The discovery story is one of the best-documented in modeling, and it happened in the summer of 1982. Crawford was 16, working a summer job detasseling corn on a farm near DeKalb, when a local news photographer spotted her and took her picture. The photograph ran in the DeKalb Nite Weekly — photographer Roger Legel had asked to shoot her as the paper’s “coed of the week” — and it became her first cover. She entered Elite Model Management’s Look of the Year contest in 1983, at 17, and made the national finals. Modeling had already knocked once before, in her sophomore year, when a local clothing store called about modeling work — only for Crawford to discover it was a prank set up by two classmates. The cornfield photograph was real, and it changed everything.

School came first, and she was good at it. She graduated from DeKalb High School in 1984 as class valedictorian and won an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University. She attended for one quarter and then dropped out to model full-time. The decision looks reckless on paper — a scholarship to Northwestern, traded for a modeling contract — but the modeling work was already paying, and the choice was hers. She moved to New York City in 1986, and the career started in earnest.

The Supermodel Years: Revlon, Pepsi, and House of Style

Crawford became a supermodel fast. In 1988 she appeared in Playboy, the first modern fashion model to do so, according to Britannica. In 1989 she signed a four-year multimillion-dollar contract with Revlon, which made her face one of the most recognizable in the world. The same year she was chosen to host MTV’s House of Style, the fashion show she hosted and executive-produced from 1989 to 1995. The show held a 50 percent male audience — unusual for a fashion program, and a sign of how far her appeal reached beyond the industry.

The Pepsi commercial came in 1992. Crawford starred in the brand’s Super Bowl ad, aired during Super Bowl XXVI, and followed it with a major Pepsi campaign in 1995. The ad — Crawford in a white tank top and denim cutoffs, drinking a Pepsi at a roadside stand while two boys watched — became one of the most replayed commercials of the decade, and it is still the first thing many people think of when they hear her name. The same year she released Cindy Crawford: Shape Your Body, a fitness video made with trainer Radu Teodorescu through her own company, Crawdaddy Productions. It sold millions, and two more installments followed.

The money followed the fame. In 1994, Forbes named her the highest-earning model in the world, with $6.5 million that year. In 1995, Forbes again named her the top-earning model in the world. She signed contracts with Versace, Omega, Maybelline and Clairol, appeared on hundreds of magazine covers, and walked the runways of Paris and Milan. The mole above her lip — the feature agencies once told her to remove — became her trademark instead.

Meaningful Beauty: The Skincare Line That Made the Fortune

In 2005, Crawford launched Meaningful Beauty, a skincare line developed with French anti-aging specialist Dr. Jean-Louis Sebagh. She owns 50% of the brand. The timing was deliberate: she was 39, the modeling work was slowing, and she understood something the industry had not yet figured out — that a model who had spent twenty years being photographed knew more about skin than most of the people selling skin cream.

The line worked. Trade pieces still put Meaningful Beauty’s sales above $100 million a year, more than twenty years after launch, according to BBN Times. In 2021, Forbes valued the brand at an estimated $400 million, which put Crawford’s 50% stake at roughly $200 million — and that stake was about 90% of her individual fortune at the time, according to Wealthy Gorilla’s reading of the Forbes reporting. The modeling had made her famous. The skincare made her rich.

She built a second business alongside it: the Cindy Crawford Home Collection, a furniture and home-goods line that BBN Times credits with more than $250 million a year in retail sales. The two businesses share a logic. Crawford sells the way she looks at 60 — not by promising youth, but by selling the routine that keeps skin and a home looking cared for. It is the same promise she has sold since the cornfield: take care of what you have, and it lasts.

Cindy Crawford Net Worth in 2026: 0 Million Combined, 5 Million Her Own

Cindy Crawford’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $400 million — but that number needs a label, and most of the pages that repeat it leave the label off. Celebrity Net Worth publishes $400 million as a combined figure shared with her husband, Rande Gerber, and says so on its own page: “That is a combined net worth with her husband, tequila entrepreneur Rande Gerber.” The site’s snapshot is dated November 5, 2026. OK Magazine’s October 16, 2026 profile repeats the $400 million combined figure and adds the individual one: Forbes previously estimated Crawford’s individual net worth at $225 million in August 2021.

The combined figure is large because of her husband’s business. Rande Gerber co-founded Casamigos tequila with George Clooney, and the brand was sold to Diageo in 2017 for up to $1 billion, according to BBN Times. Crawford’s own fortune is the Meaningful Beauty stake, the home collection, and the modeling earnings — and Celebrity Net Worth itself says that on her own, her fortune “would easily top $200 million.” A reader who wants one number should use $400 million combined and $225 million individual, and should not confuse the two.

Marriages and Family: Richard Gere, Rande Gerber, and Two Children

Crawford has been married twice. Her first marriage was to actor Richard Gere. They met in 1988 at a barbecue hosted by photographer Herb Ritts, married on December 12, 1991, in Las Vegas, and divorced on December 1, 1995, after four years. She was 25 when they married; he was 41, and the 17-year age gap came up more than once in the coverage of the split. They had no children together. Crawford has since described the marriage as a period when she was still figuring out who she was.

Her second marriage has lasted 28 years. She married businessman and former model Rande Gerber on May 29, 1998, in a beach ceremony at the Ocean Club in the Bahamas, with about 90 guests. They had met in the early 1990s at her agent’s wedding, stayed friends while both were in other relationships, and started dating after her divorce from Gere. Gerber co-founded Casamigos with George Clooney, and the couple celebrated their 25th anniversary in May 2023.

They have two children. Their son, Presley Walker Gerber, was born on July 2, 1999, and became a model. Their daughter, Kaia Jordan Gerber, was born on September 3, 2001, and is a model and actress — at 25 in 2026, she is building the career her mother built at the same age. The family lived largely out of the spotlight in Malibu, and Crawford has said the children’s privacy mattered more to her than any photograph.

Sixty in 2026: Gucci, Porter, and the Surfboard Photos

Crawford’s 60th year has been one of her busiest in a decade. In May 2026 she made a surprise return to the runway for the Gucci Cruise 2027 show in Times Square, New York, walking in a black feathered dress at 60 — an age when almost no model walks a major runway at all. In an interview with Porter magazine for its September 2026 issue, she revealed that her heel slipped out of her shoe the moment she stepped onto the runway, and that nobody in the audience noticed. She kept walking.

On November 5, 2026, Parade published photographs of Crawford recreating her iconic 1990s surfboard shoot with Buzzy Kerbox — the original was shot in June 1991 in Oahu, Hawaii, for Vogue‘s “Surf’s Up” feature. At 60, she still has the presence that made her one of the defining supermodels of the 1990s, and the Parade piece drew exactly the reaction she has drawn for forty years: surprise that she looks the way she does, and then the correction — she has always looked the way she does, because she has always taken care of herself.

She has said the secret is unglamorous. In a February 2026 profile she put it at taking care of herself “80% well and 80% of the time” — not a regime, not a product, just consistency. The same PEOPLE interview in which she called 60 “easy” carried the line that sums up the year: she is not trying to be 20 or 25, and she has no plans to retire. The work in 2026 is the proof. Her interview for the September 2026 issue of Porter also looked back at the other side of the story: her relationship with her daughter Kaia, who followed her onto the runway, and how she approaches a career at 60 that began when she was a teenager in a cornfield.

Beyond the Runway: Books, Screen, and The Super Models

Crawford’s career never stayed on the runway. In 2015 she published Becoming, a book about her life and career, with photographs from the decades in front of the camera. The same year she played a headmistress in Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” music video and appeared on the sitcom Cougar Town. The screen work goes back further: in 1994 she played the long-lost love in Jon Bon Jovi’s “Please Come Home for Christmas” video, and her television appearances since have included Lip Sync Battle, BoJack Horseman and Friends: The Reunion.

The most complete telling of her story came in Apple TV+’s docuseries The Super Models, which reunited Crawford with Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista and Christy Turlington — the women who, with her, defined the supermodel era. The series put the four of them on camera together for the first time in decades, and it did what the fashion coverage of the 1990s never did: it let them talk about the business in their own words, including the parts that were not glamorous. Crawford’s contribution was the same one she has made since 1982 — the plainspoken one. She was the valedictorian who ended up on the cover of Vogue, and she has never pretended the two halves of that story do not belong together.

That is the part of the biography the age question misses. The number is 60. The career behind it runs from a cornfield to a chemical engineering scholarship, from a Pepsi commercial to a skincare company worth $400 million, from a talk show about fashion to a docuseries about the women who made it. The age is the headline. The range is the story.

The Loss of Presley Gerber: What Is Known

On September 20, 2026, Cindy Crawford’s son Presley Gerber died at the age of 27. AARP reported the death on September 21, 2026, and Celebrity Net Worth’s profile of Crawford, updated in the same period, records it as well. According to Los Angeles County medical examiner records obtained by People, Gerber died at a rehabilitation facility. The cause of death has not been disclosed. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner said the cause and manner of death had been deferred pending further testing, and the Santa Monica Police Department is investigating. This article will not speculate about the cause, and it will not repeat the rumors that circulated online in the days after the news broke.

A representative for Crawford, her husband Rande Gerber, 64, and their daughter Kaia Gerber, 25, said the family is “asking for privacy during this very difficult and painful time.” Crawford was photographed visiting her daughter Kaia in late October 2026, in the weeks after the loss. Two months before his death, she had marked his 27th birthday with childhood photographs on Instagram: “I’m so proud of the man you’ve become, but I’ll always see you as my little boy! Love you,” she wrote.

Presley Gerber was a model, and in his last year he had used his public platform to talk about mental health. He posted a recurring series of “Mental Health Mondays” videos on Instagram, and in November 2025 he told his followers that when he started the series, “the goal was to spark real conversations about the stuff most people hide. It’s been incredible seeing how far that message has spread and how many people it has helped.” That work is part of his story, and it is the part of it that can still help someone reading this page.

How She Compares: The Richest Supermodels at 60

Crawford sits near the top of the richest-models list, but the list is harder to read than it looks, because the biggest numbers on it are combined household figures rather than individual fortunes. The table below states the scope of each figure so the comparison is honest.

The comparison shows the same pattern as the rest of Crawford’s career. Bündchen matches her on the combined figure, but Bündchen’s fortune was built on modeling contracts and endorsements at a scale no other model has matched. Campbell, the third of the original supermodel trio, sits far lower, at $80 million. Crawford’s number is different in kind: most of it is equity in a skincare company she co-owns, not fees for work she did. That is why it is still growing at 60, when modeling income has long since faded for almost everyone else in her generation.

Career Timeline: From DeKalb to Times Square

What Happens Next

Crawford has said she will keep modeling for as long as she enjoys it, and the bookings in 2026 suggest the industry agrees. The Gucci runway and the Parade shoot are not nostalgia work — they are current campaigns, and they pay current rates. The Meaningful Beauty business keeps selling at more than $100 million a year, and the home collection keeps selling alongside it. The fortune is built to outlast the modeling, which is the point of the whole second act.

What changes after September 20, 2026, is not the career but the context around it. The family has asked for privacy, and the public record of Crawford’s 60th year will now always carry two facts side by side: a runway return at an age when almost no model walks, and the loss of a son at 27. She has not spoken publicly about the loss beyond the family’s statement, and this article will not ask her to. The work continues. The grief is hers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Reporting

Age and biography: Wikipedia, “Cindy Crawford” (born February 20, 1966, DeKalb, Illinois; parents John Daniel Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf; Elite Look of the Year 1983; valedictorian 1984; Northwestern one quarter; House of Style 1989–1995; Pepsi Super Bowl 1992; Shape Your Body 1992); Britannica, “Cindy Crawford” (updated October 23, 2026 — cornfield discovery 1982; Revlon 1989; Playboy July 1988; Forbes top earner 1995); IANS, “Cindy Crawford expresses gratitude towards life so far as she turns 60” (February 21, 2026 — “60 is the new 60!”); FemaleFirst, “Cindy Crawford lifts lid on retirement plans” (September 11, 2026 — PEOPLE quote: “This year I turned 60 and honestly, it was easy… I’m not trying to be 20 or 25”; no retirement plans); Parade, “Cindy Crawford, 60, Recreates Iconic ’90s Surfboard Photos” (November 5, 2026 — original June 1991 Vogue “Surf’s Up”, Oahu, with Buzzy Kerbox); beninwebtv, “Cindy Crawford reveals unnoticed incident during Gucci show in Times Square” (September 11, 2026 — Porter interview; heel slipped; Gucci Cruise 2027, Times Square, May 2026); celebswiki, “Cindy Crawford Bio: Age, Height, Husband, Career, Net Worth & Facts in 2026” (Gucci May 2026; $400 million combined; 60th birthday). Presley Gerber: AARP, “Cindy Crawford, 60, Mourns Son, Presley Gerber, 27” (September 21, 2026, Donna Freydkin — died September 20, 2026, age 27; rehabilitation facility per LA County medical examiner records obtained by People; cause not disclosed; family asking for privacy; “Mental Health Mondays”; July birthday post); postboyclub, “Cindy Crawford’s Love Story” (October 2026 — medical examiner: cause and manner deferred pending further testing; Santa Monica Police Department investigating; Gere marriage 1991–1995); The Knot, “Inside Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber’s 25+ Years of Marriage” (Presley born July 2, 1999; Kaia born September 3, 2001; married May 29, 1998). Net worth: Celebrity Net Worth, “Cindy Crawford Net Worth” (snapshot November 5, 2026 — $400 million combined with Rande Gerber; individual fortune “would easily top $200 million”; Forbes $225 million 2021; Presley death noted); OK Magazine, “Cindy Crawford’s Net Worth: Inside The Supermodel’s Fortune” (October 16, 2026 — $400 million combined; Forbes $225 million individual, August 2021); Wealthy Gorilla, “Cindy Crawford Net Worth” (updated November 8, 2026 — $400 million combined; Meaningful Beauty valued ~$400 million in 2021, her 50% stake ~$200 million; Forbes 2021 $225 million); BBN Times, “Cindy Crawford’s Net Worth, Ethnicity, Best Movies, and the Fascinating Journey of Meaningful Beauty” (Meaningful Beauty $100M+ annual sales; Cindy Crawford Home $250M+ retail; Casamigos sold to Diageo for up to $1B in 2017; cause of death not disclosed); TheMost10, “Cindy Crawford Net Worth” (2025 — Gisele Bündchen $400 million). Peers: Guide Net Worth, “Naomi Campbell Net Worth 2026” ($80 million). Reporting window: November 9, 2026. Where sources disagreed — the $400 million combined figure against the $225 million individual figure — both are shown with their sources and dates, and no figure is presented as confirmed where no primary source confirms it. On Presley Gerber’s death, only facts confirmed by AARP, People via AARP, and the medical examiner are reported; no cause is speculated. Cross-site check: NetWorthCraft and CelebAmerica have no Cindy Crawford post, so no sister cross-link was placed. Internal links: Kaia Gerber age and Naomi Campbell age on Guide Net Worth.