Cindy Crawford's First Bra Ads Were Plastered All Over Her High School (PHOTO, VIDEO)

Cindy Crawford has been keeping busy these days and she's apparently bagged another gig -- a Propel Zero campaign. But she took a few moments to reminisce about her early, somewhat traumatic days in the biz, when her first-ever ad for Cross Your Heart bras ended up all over her school hallways:

My very first job was in a Chicago. I'm from a small town 60 miles west of Chicago called DeKalb, Illinois. I started modeling with an agency there and the first job they got me was for bras for Marshall Fields, which is a department store in Chicago. And of course it was one hour booking. It was for the newspaper ad. When you do lingerie, it's kind of a big deal to decide to do that. I think I was 16 or 17 at time. It wasn't a Victoria Secret sexy bra; it was a Cross Your Heart bra. It ended up plastered all over my high school, which was somewhat humiliating. But when you do lingerie you make time and a half. So I was like, "Do you know how much I made? I made $150 to make that picture." So that kind of shut everyone up.

We wonder how they felt when just a few years later, Crawford and her supermodel buddies wouldn't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

(Interview via Propel Zero, photo via James Vaughan Photo)

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Comments

[ThomasPaine1776]

12:09 AM on 08/16/2011

i see nipple.

[winso1r]

08:23 PM on 07/19/2011

NEED THE AMERICAN MEDIA IN EAST COAST BE TRULLY LIE FOLD ABOUT CELEBERTIES ,WHO AREN'T FAT WITH CELLITE,I MEAN REALLY...CINDY CRAWFORD ,YOUNG ,HEALTH MINDED,STEPHANIE SEYMOUR HEALTH MINDED AND FIT,AND OTHER YOUNG FEMALE CELEBERTIES WHO HAVE ALWAYS BEEN BEAUTIFUL AND FIT......38-41 AGES THEY SHOULDN'T BE COMPUTER GENEARTE WHEN YOU WOULD LET NICOLE KIDMAN WHO IS OLDER AND FLABBY BEFORE KIETH URBAN....LOOK YOUNGER THEN SHE IS,SHE IS 10 YEARS OLDER THEN KIETH ,SHE WAS IN HER 40'S WHEN SHE MARRIED HIM AND HE WAS 35 YOUNG THEN NICOLE ,,,,,FAR TOO YOUNG TO MARRY A BITTER PERSON.....CAN WE STOP THE JEALOUSY BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT SELLING NEWSPAPERS

[ArChiMi]

06:44 PM on 07/30/2011

Why are you shouting?

[Bruckley]

03:28 PM on 07/18/2011

hott

[we-r-stardust]

11:05 AM on 07/18/2011

SPAM

[drumz]

01:33 PM on 07/16/2011

Spam, don't click. Flagged

[we-r-stardust]

01:38 PM on 07/16/2011

SPAMMER

[nancynancy]

09:39 AM on 07/16/2011

I think it's tacky that her parents allowed her to do an underwear ad at the age of 16.

[ninjasrolled]

01:33 PM on 07/16/2011

Yeah, it obviously hasn't worked out for her at all. She totally isn't a classy, successful, stable individual and she's riddled with sex scandals. Oh wait...

[Darwinita]

09:40 AM on 07/18/2011

That and $1.50 will get you coffee. Obviously your definition of tacky isn't valid to her.

[Down in FL]

02:07 AM on 07/16/2011

She's from Dekalb?

[stape45]

04:16 AM on 07/16/2011

A virtual neighbor of mine. (Hometown: Aurora, Il.)

[sabelmouse]

08:39 AM on 07/17/2011

i lived for 10 years in the same town where diane krueger went to school.

[Ramon Moreno]

01:08 AM on 07/16/2011

bra

[Tara Hunkoff]

11:06 PM on 07/15/2011

Beauty and brains ... great lady

[Dbos]

12:26 AM on 07/17/2011

Trolls are identified by their lack of understanding of the difference between a political system and an economic system.

[frobi6852]

04:21 AM on 07/18/2011

lol, the rich don't pay taxes

[wonderYrednow]

06:05 PM on 07/15/2011

I picked the wrong career path, I should have been a photographer!

[xoxolovergirl]

05:40 PM on 07/15/2011

I too love it when the beautiful/successful people get the last laugh.

[MissIndependentLady]

05:14 PM on 07/15/2011

Life can be great sometimes. The ones who were bullied in high school most of the time end up successful later on in life. Kids made fun of Cindy Crawford for taking pictures in her underwear, now she's one of the biggest supermodels ever.

[avam2009]

11:14 AM on 07/19/2011

I seriously doubt she was bullied. She was beautiful, and was the valedictorian of her graduating class (read this somewhere years ago!). In my experience, beautiful girls that are valedictorians are not usually outcasts.

[baileywick]

05:09 PM on 07/15/2011

I love it when the right person gets the last laugh.