Cindy Crawford announces she is retiring when she turns 50

Supermodel Cindy Crawford has announced that
she is retiring from modelling when she turns 50
on February 20.
The 49-year-old beauty is calling time on her
legendary career - which has lasted for over 20
years - and stepping away from the camera
because she doesn't want to keep 'proving'
herself.
Cindy - who quit full-time modelling in 2000 - told
United Airlines' Rhapsody magazine:
'I'm sure I'll have my picture taken for 10
more years, but not as a model anymore.'
'And that's OK. I've done it. I've worked with all
these incredible photographers,' she said.
Cindy added: 'What else do I need to do? I can't
keep reinventing myself. I shouldn't have to keep
proving myself. I don't want to.'
The runway star became a household name and a
celebrity brand - as she rose to supermodel status
in the eighties.
Cindy touched on aging, revealing that: 'I see my
daughter - you spend your teenage years wanting
to be older. When are you just happy where you
are? Both my grandmothers are still alive. One is
93 and lives by herself - but she still calls me for
face cream. I wonder if she looks in the mirror
and asks "Who is that?"'
Cindy - who has son Presley, 16, and daughter
Kaia, 14, with husband Rande Gerber - recently
admitted to People Magazine in December that
she is planning to 'embrace' being 50 and wants
to grow old gracefully.
'Women like Helen Mirren and Jane Fonda,
they look amazing and they look
appropriate. They look amazing but they're
not trying to look 30. I don't want to be
trying to compete with my 14-year-old
daughter - because I would lose!'
'I always thought, "When can I just let it all
go?" It's just never. There is no age now! It
was the aspect of embracing turning 50
and celebrating the past, but at the same
time I am embracing where I am.'