Henry/CT asks: Hi, It is a real pleasure to have you on line. It's only fair to warn you that you can really get hooked once you start browsing. What are your current hobbies? Cindy Crawford: Well, thank you, it's a pleasure to be here. I'm excited, too, to be on line. My current hobbies -- really because I travel so much -- I work out, which I can usually do anywhere in the world and I read and I love riding horses, but that's not quite as easy to do on the road. And I love to cook. Michael Bolanos: What do you like to cook? Cindy Crawford: I'm a good cook. I like to cook everything healthy. Go ahead. GA! Tonia/Host: Q: If you hadn't become a model, what other profession would you have pursued? Cindy Crawford: At different points in my life I wanted to be different things. First I wanted to be the first female president when I was in 7th grade. Then I wanted to be a nuclear physicist because it was the most exotic thing I could think of to be. Then I started modeling when I was 17. Both of my sisters are teachers. I probably would have been a teacher as well. Michael Bolanos: I remember reading about this but I think people would be surprised as to what you were going to major in. Cindy Crawford: I attended Northwestern for a half year, majoring in chemical engineering. Tech weenies we called them. I studied COBOL as a language. I know, I'm dating myself out there. GA! Caz asks: Cindy - Do you have a specific beauty routine i.e. every night? Do you drink natural fruit juices daily do you think they are good for detoxifying? By the way I'm in London and it's 1 am. Cindy Crawford: My main beauty regime every night is taking off the makeup you have on. I think that's the most important thing. Also getting enough sleep. And I don't drink a lot of juices just because I have-my stomach is sensitive so I don't-- I think any kind of natural food is really good for you, I'm not saying don't do it, I'm saying I don't even though I probably should. GA. Q: Cindy, I have a beautiful 5 year old daughter. Would you suggest she get involved in modeling or not? Cindy Crawford: Well, I think five is very young unless she really wants to do it herself. I think at 5 you want to let your daughter be a kid because a set is really no place for a child. Certain children just won't take no for an answer. I think that's a different situation. I wouldn't encourage it. If-- when she's 16 or 17 or graduated from high school and wants to model, that's when you can start investigating modeling agencies, in whatever the big city is near where you live. And good luck. GA. Q: Al asks: Do all models approach makeup the same way? Cindy Crawford: All people approach makeup differently. That's one of the things we say in the book, there are no rules and we kind of explore what we mean by that, you don't have to wear foundation but you have to know what you are doing, that you do correctly. Definitely models each have their own special tricks that work for them, and this book is my compilation. I have been doing it for a long time and worked with a lot of great makeup artists so I kind of borrowed from the best. Q: Your schedule must be extremely demanding. How do you keep yourself sane and composed despite your hectic schedule? Cindy Crawford: You guys thought I wasn't a good actress. Don't judge a person by their first movie. No, in fact, I think that you know, I'm fortunate enough even like on this book tour, we're in eight cities in eight days, that kind of a thing, but Sonia's a good friend of mine and she's coming on the road and my assistant Michelle- Michael Bolanos: Yeah, Michelle. Cindy Crawford: Michelle has been instrumental to me being on eDrive, by the way. Ronnie, a friend of mine is doing the hair. My trainer, Jamie, is on the road and he's going to make us work out a half an hour every morning before we go to book signings and my publicist. You bring your team along with you and you find fun where you can, because otherwise you really do go insane. Also baths are cheap therapy, a hot bath. Tonia/Host: Q: What's your best advice to young girls? Cindy Crawford: I think my advice to my own daughter would be to trust your instincts, no matter what it is about, even as a young model a lot of times they ask you to do certain things and every time that I have had an instinct but got talked out of it, it was the wrong decision. There is a reason we have instincts and even if it might have been okay for someone else to do, if your instincts are telling you no or yes, then really follow them and that would be best advice about anything, either professional or personal life. GA. Tonia/Host: Q: Who is your favorite photographer to work with? Cindy Crawford: I don't have one. Even if I did, I would get in trouble if I said one. So I say a group that I adore working with. Herb Ritz very much, Peter Lindberg, I love Steven Maizel's work and Avedon, and Arthur--good luck with the spelling of that. Just phonetically. Michel Comp shot my book and I just love the pictures he did for the book. So there's actually a lot of good photographers out there but those are the ones that I work with the most and usually can count on a great photo. Michael Bolanos: What is something that if someone is going to be photographed what can a subject do to put themselves in the best light. Cindy Crawford: I think it's important to have a team of people around you that you feel comfortable, the hair, makeup, stylists. Also really try to have a rapport with the photographer and be willing to make a fool of yourself. If you control your image too much-- sometimes you make a mistake and it doesn't look good. If you never try different things it gets stale very quickly. GA. Tonia/Host: Q: What does inner beauty mean to you? Cindy Crawford: I think for me, inner beauty is about self-confidence and passion about whatever you're doing. People-- whatever the job is, if people are interested in it or have excitement about it, that's very contagious and all of a sudden that person becomes very attractive. To really trust yourself. I was very fortunate because I feel like I had a mother who I really taught me what unconditional love was. When I moved to New York as a model, she said what's the worst thing that can happen? You come back. Then I felt the courage to go and try new things and I think that-- I wish every person had that kind of support and if you didn't get it from your family, you have to create it for yourself. Michael Bolanos: I love the story that you mention about your mom. When she met your dad and about make-up. Cindy Crawford: It's interesting. I do makeup because we weren't allowed to wear it when I was a kid. My mother met my dad when she was a kid. He picked her up for their first date and he took her directly to his parents' house and said wash your face or I'm taking you home, and she did, which is a whole other moral of the story, but she never wore it because she didn't like it and we were never around it so when I had to do my first modeling job and they said bring your own makeup, I was completely lost. Thank God Iman and Diane DeWitt, two of the top models at the time were there and-- I watched what they were doing and it managed to turn out okay. GA. More... © 1996, Broadway Books, All Rights Reserved.