Cindy Crawford Reveals What 'Quickly' Changed With Parents At Start Of Modeling Career

Cindy Crawford has revealed that she was earning more than her parents when she was an 18-year-old just starting her modeling career.

Crawford, in an interview with Christy Turlington Burns and Kelly Corrigan for the podcast series “Kelly Corrigan Wonders: About Your Mother,” reflected on her start as a model in Chicago where she became “the big fish pretty quickly” in a small pond.

“I was making more money than my parents made and more money then they could’ve ever even dreamed of,” said the iconic model.

“Quickly, within a year,” she added.

She said she had her own apartment, working with a “big photographer” every day there, before the allure of New York City started “pulling” her.

“But I definitely was afraid to leave,” Crawford said. “But this idea, I was afraid to go to New York. And again, my mother was like, ‘Well, what’s the worst thing that can happen? You just come back.’ And I think that was very freeing for me because I was like, ‘Yeah, you’re right.’”

When Corrigan asked if making more than her parents at a young age created “distance or weirdness,” the model, whose brother, Jeff, died of leukemia when he was 3 years old, said she felt like she also became “the son in a weird way” to her father.

You can check out more of Crawford’s appearance on the “Kelly Corrigan Wonders: About Your Mother” podcast .