Cindy Crawford reveals how she "changed herself" to marry Richard Gere

Supermodel Cindy Crawford in the “Supermodels” talk show told how she changed herself for the sake of marriage with actor Richard Gere. They met in 1988, and got married in 1991. Gere is 17 years older than Crawford, and Crawford was 25 at the time of their wedding.

According to Cindy, at the time of her relationship with Gere, she had not yet formed her own interests and she adapted to her interlocutor, “trying on” his hobbies in order to be on the same wavelength. Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere in 1993 Cindy Crawford and Richard Gere in 1993/GettyImages.ru "At the beginning of a relationship, when you're a young woman, you say, 'Do you like baseball? I also like baseball. Are you really into Tibetan Buddhism? Maybe I like it too, I'll try it."

“You’re willing to kind of adapt to whoever you’re in love with,” she said.

 

After their wedding, Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford became one of the most talked about couples. However, their marriage was short-lived: they divorced in 1995. According to some reports, the reason was Cindy Crawford’s desire to have children, for which the actor was not ready. They also say that Richard was annoyed by Cindy's excessive frankness on various television shows when she talked about her personal life.

Today they are both married again. Cindy Crawford is married to Rande Gerber, with whom she has two children. Richard Gere is married to publicist Alejandra Silva, whom he met in 2014 at a film festival. Silva is 33 years younger than the actor. The couple also has two children. In the Docshow, Cindy Crawford also revealed that she encountered resistance from her father, John Crawford, who initially did not understand that modeling could be a real career and thought that "it was just another name for prostitution."

In a new docuseries, supermodels Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista came together and reminisced about their journey to success in the industry.