Cindy Crawford admitted that she once contemplated removing her mole, but her mother persuaded her not to.
Would Cindy Crawford be just as beautiful sans the trademark black mole on her face? Thanks to Photoshop, we can actually find an answer to that question. In a recent interview, the model revealed that her sister had once encouraged her to remove the mole because it looked "ugly", but her mother persuaded her not to.
"Apparently if it were on the right side it would be a beauty mark, and if it were on the left it would be an ugly mark," Crawford said, according to Vogue. "I would get teased by the other kids in school, so I definitely wanted to get it removed. But my mother always said, "'You know what your mole looks like, you don't know what the scar is going to look like'."
"Now it's just a part of my face and I don't think 'Oh, how's my mole doing today?' It's the thing that made people remember me, and it made a lot of women who also have beauty marks identify with me. They set you apart. Honestly though, if I were designing my face from scratch I don't know if I would design it with the mole."
Today the mole is so much a part of her face - a characteristic that undoubtedly helped her launch a decades-long career. The 48-year-old model said she gets upset when editorials airbrush the mole from her face or flip-flop the picture so that her mole appears on the opposite cheek.
"My whole face is different. That's one thing that drives me crazy," she confessed in an interview with Into the Gloss.
Crawford also revealed that her daughter, Kaia, has certainly acquired some of her skills - even if she doesn't have the same political ambitions.
Over the years, Crawford has made quite an impression in the fashion industry. She has repeatedly featured on the covers of big fashion magazines including Vogue, W, People, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Cosmopolitan, and Allure. Crawford quit full-time modeling in 2000 and now appears only occasionally in fashion magazines.
She also has a knack for making fashion statements that become raging trends. The red Versace dress which she wore to the 63rd Academy Awards in 1991 had a major influence on the fashion industry following which many copies and fakes of the dress were produced.
