Cindy Crawford says her dad thought modelling was a euphemism for prostitution.

The supermodel, 57, who was one of many world’s hottest pin-ups within the Nineteen Eighties and ’90s, has additionally admitted she initially struggled to persuade her mum and pop she was on the trail to a profitable and respectable profession.

She stated in a preview for Apple TV+’s new documentary present ‘The Super Models’ about her dad John’s response to her going into modelling: “My dad really didn’t understand that modelling was a real career.

“He thought modelling was, like, another name for prostitution.”

Cindy’s dad and her mum Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf had been finally supportive and went along with her to her first modelling appointment.

The mannequin added within the preview she “never even thought about modelling” earlier than she ended up within the enterprise.

She stated: “I didn’t even know it was a real job. I didn’t know how I would get from DeKalb, Illinois, to a magazine.”

In 2016, Cindy instructed Vanity Fair about how she did her first modelling job aged 16 when she was nonetheless dwelling along with her dad and mom.

She stated: “When I was 16, Roger Legel, a local photographer in my small town of DeKalb, Illinois, asked to photograph me for the college newspaper.

“I agreed, and he shot this picture at the backyard pool of my high school boyfriend.

“I was still a teenager and dreamed of becoming something big – a nuclear physicist or the first woman president, the two biggest jobs I could think of.

“Doing this first shoot changed my life. The photographer encouraged me to go to Chicago to try to find an agent.

“I went to Chicago, ended up signing with Elite, and from there started doing catalogue shoots as well as working with Victor Skrebneski — the most important photographer in Chicago.

“This one photograph opened my eyes to a whole new world and started me down the path of modelling.”