If you’re after the secret to eternal youth, just ask Cindy Crawford.

With an age-defying figure, flawless skin and endless energy, the supermodel appears to have mastered the art of turning back the clock.

In these stunning images, shot for FutureClaw magazine, Cindy, turning 45 this month, recreates iconic images from her past, looking better than most women half her age.

The poses are recreations of renowned photographer Herb Ritts’ famous shots, and only go to show how little the supermodel has changed over the last two decades – despite two children.

But the brunette, married to nightclub owner Rande Gerber, insists she has never resorted to the knife – and even gave up Botox.

She told Ladies’ Home Journal last July: ‘I’ve tried Botox, but it scares me.

Plastic surgery is scary, but as long as you don’t use these things to change your face, I think it’s OK.’

However, she won’t rule out surgery.

She said: ‘When I was 30 I might have said, “I’m going to age in a way that honors time and is completely natural”.

‘But I’m no longer so highbrow about it.’

Instead the model, who has her own line of beauty products, likes to keep fit with a healthy diet and exercise regime – including pole dancing.

Either way, after 25 years in the business and over 1,000 front covers, Cindy is clearly comfortable in her own skin.

She said: I think I’m holding up pretty well, but what I like most is the sense of power I have.

‘So much of your life you spend trying to prove yourself, trying to make things happen, trying to get somewhere else.

‘But then you get into your late 30s and 40s and realise life is pretty amazing right in front of you if you can just be present in it.’

 




 

It’s been 25 years – and more than 1000 front covers – since Cindy Crawford burst onto the modelling scene.

But at 43 the original supermodel has proved she’s still got the looks, and the body, which made her a superstar.

Posing in a series of black outfits, she showed off her figure in the latest edition of Harper’s Bazaar.

Refreshingly, it seems Cindy appreciates her good fortune.

In a recent interview the mother-of-two admitted she was pleased with how her body had aged.

‘I think I’m holding together pretty good,’ she said.

But she did admit that she had experimented with holding back the years.

‘There’s a doctor here in London who I’ve gone to for Botox,’ she said.

‘I did a whole skincare line with him. But I haven’t done Botox for ten years. And I didn’t do collagen, I don’t think.’

The American, who now has her own range of beauty products, said she had contemplated more drastic surgery, dismissing it because it made other women look ‘unreal’.

Cindy, married to ex-model and businessman Rande Gerber, also revealed: ‘Because people have such expectations of what they are going to find when they see me, that brings added pressure to fight the ageing process.’

*The full feature appears in the March issue of Harper’s Bazaar, on sale Thursday, February 4.

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Designer John Varvatos, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber

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Designer John Varvatos and Common

Designer John Varvatos and Dave Mathews

 

German prosecutors say the 26-year-old man who tried to extort $100,000 (euro67,258) from former supermodel Cindy Crawford has turned himself in to police.

Prosecutors in the southwestern city of Stuttgart said Tuesday that Edis Kayalar walked into a police station late Monday.

He has been charged with one count of extortion in the U.S. If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison.

Kayalar allegedly threatened to release a photo of Crawford’s daughter bound to a chair and gagged when she was 7. According to court papers, the girl says a former nanny took the picture as part of a “cops and robbers” game.

Kayalar is to appear before a judge later Tuesday who will rule on whether he is to remain in detention.

 

A German man was charged Thursday with trying to extort $100,000 from former supermodel Cindy Crawford and her entrepreneur husband Rande Gerber over a photo of their daughter bound to a chair and gagged, authorities said.

Edis Kayalar, 26, has not yet been arrested. He was recently deported to Germany and believed to be in Stuttgart, authorities said.

He was charged with one count of extortion. If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison. It was not clear if he has an attorney in the U.S.

The photo was purportedly taken by the couple’s former nanny earlier this year and shows the girl, then 7, bound to a chair wearing shorts and a T-shirt.

The daughter told her parents, who were unaware of the photo, that the nanny took the picture as part of a “cops and robbers” game, according to an affidavit filed in the case and first obtained by The Associated Press.

The nanny, whose name wasn’t released, has not been charged. She was fired a week before Kayalar called the couple.

Kayalar stole the photo from the nanny and repeatedly sought to get money from Crawford and Gerber, starting in July, according to the document.

Kayalar initially said he wanted to return the photo because he was a good person and didn’t want to see it land in the tabloids, the affidavit said.

Gerber later met with him at a bar, where Kayalar showed him a copy of the photo and said he also took a handwritten note from the nanny’s apartment that read, “The baby sitter went crazy and tied everyone up and they need your help! Please.”

The nanny said she had taken the photo as a prank and was going to post it and the note on the front door of the family’s house, according to the affidavit. The nanny never went through with the joke.

Gerber eventually got the photo from Kayalar and paid him $1,000 in cash “for his trouble,” the affidavit said.

But Kayalar is accused of demanding more money while saying he had another copy of the photo.

“He believed he could have received $500,000 from the tabloids for the photograph and that he deserved more money from them,” the document said.

Kayalar was taken into federal custody for an immigration violation three months ago and deported. However, he called Crawford and Gerber again on Nov. 1 and threatened to sell or release the photo to the media if his demand for $100,000 wasn’t met, the affidavit said.

Kayalar said he “was not trying to destroy a little girl’s life, but the release of the photograph was not going to be something positive for the victims’ image,” according to the document.

Kayalar allegedly gave Gerber a German bank account number and routing information and saying the money should be wired within three days or the photo would be made public.

The last contact was an e-mail sent Tuesday to Kayalar at the direction of the FBI that indicated the payment would be made later this week. No money has since been paid to Kayalar.

Crawford’s spokeswoman Annett Wolf issued a statement saying, “Rande Gerber and Cindy Crawford intend to pursue any and all available legal action against anyone who aids the perpetrator in the distribution or sale of the photograph of their daughter.”

Crawford, who divorced actor Richard Gere in 1995, married Gerber in 1998. They have two children.

 

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