Tonia/Host: Q: Who are you for in the World Series, Yankees or Braves? Cindy Crawford: I better say Yankees. But actually -- Letterman just asked me and I truly did not know, Didn't they get rained out Saturday night? So I knew they got rained out but I did not know they were on last night because I went to bed at 8:00 because I had to get up at 5:00 in the morning to do "Good Morning, America." For New York's sake, I hope they win. GA. Q: Alexander Dietrich asks: First, congratulations on all you success...my question is a little different, I am moving to New York to attend FIT, taking classes in fashion design...is there anything that would prepare me for the industry? Cindy Crawford: I think that in design I'm imagining is what you're talking about and I think a school really showcases one talent and a lot of the designers look there for people to work for them. So I can't really give you advice on that. What I could say that I still think any profession, being professional in terms of being on time, doing what you say you're going to do, not bringing your personal problems to work, I think that's the best advice I can give anybody. That really translates to any job. Good luck. GA. Q: So many people think models are "just" faces -- how do you convince people that you're a thinking person as well? Are you involved in any political groups or causes? Cindy Crawford: Well, it's not one of my main goals in life to have people think that I'm smart or a thinking person. I think anyone who spends any time with me realizes that models are people too. We think and feel just like everybody else. And so I always say I think it's really ignorant people who think that models are ignorant. A lot of models are uneducated in terms of we didn't go to college. If you don't get it going then, you might not get the chance. So it is true that maybe we don't all have B.A.s or M.A.s or M.D.s or whatever. In terms of politics I don't consider myself a political person. I'm involved with some causes that I believe in, raising money for AIDS, raising money for breast cancer, I'm very involved with leukemia because my brother died of leukemia. I would probably consider myself a Democrat but I'm not like out there at the conventions, as you notice. I'm pro-choice and things like that so that would probably make me tend to vote for the democratic party. Michael Bolanos: If you are just joining us we are talking with Cindy Crawford about her new book "Cindy Crawford's Basic Face" and we hope you will go out and get the book. Q: Jade asks: Now that you're an accomplished Model/Actress/Writer, what would you like to venture into next? Cindy Crawford: First of all, it's funny to be called an author. Even when we went to the book show in Chicago, I got a little tag that said Cindy Crawford, author, and it felt cool. I call those slashes, like model, slash, actress slash or author. I don't want to take on another slash. Part of the business that I've created is doing different things but I still consider myself a model. A spokesperson even more so like for Revlon and different companies that I represent. The book was just something that I really believed in. My sisters and mom were always bugging me for this information so now I can just say "read the book." In terms of what's next, I'm not really sure. I think I want to take more time off. Normally for me to get behind a project I have to be really excited about it and it takes free time to get excited about something. I need to sit back a little bit, regroup and kind of get enthusiastic about something else. Tonia/Host: Q: What do you do when you're bored, Cindy? Cindy Crawford: I love being bored. It's such a rarity in my life. I took off the month of August and went out to the Hamptons and everybody said what are you going to do? I said hopefully I'll get bored. Before I made any decisions, I wanted to wait to get bored. In fact I didn't get bored because I was having people come out every weekend and I was grocery shopping and cooking and planning meals and trying to make things nice and of course doing Oprah and Rosie. How could I get bored with those two shows on? I love to read because you're really never lonely if you have a good book. I have an expensive phone bill calling my mom and my sisters and my family and stuff. Michael Bolanos: You mentioned Rosie, folks should know that at www.eDrive.com you have started sending photos of what is going on on the tour. Cindy Crawford: Yes, part of being on a virtual tour was each day I'm sending in photographs from whatever we did that day on the book tour. Friday I was on the Rosie O'Donnell show. Rosie is way into the Internet and computers and chat rooms. So we did a Polaroid of me with Rosie in my dressing room and we put it for the day of Friday. Michael Bolanos: How does it feel to be on the other side of the camera? Do you take pictures of people? Cindy Crawford: I'm not really into that. I don't need another thing in my life. I buy those throw-away cameras. So does Herb Ritz, so it makes me feel okay. They actually work. Q: How did you and Sonia become friends? Cindy Crawford: Sonia and I met modeling-I don't know if it was a job. Was it, Sonia? It was a test which is what you do when you're not being paid to be a model. You do this test shoot and hopefully someone sees them and hires you for the job. Sonia was a makeup artist in Minneapolis and she had come down with a photographer and they were doing stuff in Chicago and we became friends. We kind of bonded instantly, but we didn't have enough time to spend together. She moved to New York and I started spending time in New York right afterwards and she graciously invited me to live with her. I was going to stay with her for a weekend and I was there for three months while I was just getting onto my feet in New York. And we were both from the Midwest. It's kind of nice to have another Midwesterner in New York. We both didn't know anybody so every night we'd have dinner together, go to movies and have been really close friends ever since then. Michael Bolanos: And you can certainly say where you grew up. Cindy Crawford: Anyone in DeKalb that has a computer and is on line, I want to say hi. Michael Bolanos: Go DeKalb. Cindy Crawford: DeKalb, Illinois. Q: In all your travels, what's your favorite city for working? For relaxing? Cindy Crawford: I think my favorite city for working is New York, just because this is where the best of the best come. In terms of fashion and in almost probably any business. There's always excellent people here. And it's very much about work here and everyone's running around so you don't feel like a workaholic if you're working a lot. In terms of relaxing, I don't have a favorite city to relax in. I don't really find cities that relaxing. I love the beach and any beach with a warm ocean and a cold margarita, I'll take. Q: What was the most difficult thing about writing "Cindy Crawford's Basic Face"? Cindy Crawford: I think the most difficult thing was just really realizing that Sonia and I were like-- we were midwives to this project. When I put my name on something, I care so much more about it and I really wanted it to be something I was proud of. A lot of times when I do advertising and I get paid to do something, I might not like the hair or clothes, but it's not really my place to say, but this book, has my name out and it really was to represent me and I cared about it. Sonia and I spent so much time. Every detail we went over and so every time someone says something nice about the book, like, it's so great the way it opens flat. It's like oh, good, they noticed. It was worth taking the extra time and energy. We're both really proud of the project. Michael Bolanos: Broadway Books did a nice job. The way it lays and is designed. Cindy Crawford: We hired a friend who's also from Minneapolis, Robert Valentine, he did the design. We worked very closely-they have done a lot of different projects and I really am happy with the finished product. Michael Bolanos: Sometimes it is harder to make things simple. It is easy to read and understand. Cindy Crawford: Also for us, we had the double duty of pleasing both the fashion industry who are like the biggest snobs, and the 13-year-old girl in the Midwest to relate to it. We really wanted to have a balance between accessibility but also be modern. Michael Bolanos: I hope everyone will run out and take a look because they achieved that balance. More... © 1996, Broadway Books, All Rights Reserved.