Supermodel Cindy Crawford admits she fears her teen daughter Kaia Gerber will feel pressure to have the same success she had at the height of her career.
Cindy, who is visiting Australia next week for the first time in 10 years, shared her concerns with Vogue Australia.
Cindy, now 50, is the cover star for the magazine’s March issue in which she talks about her modelling heyday, her career’s resurgence, and more.
“The only concern I have for her [Kaia], and it isn’t an issue, is that in the modelling world I hit the top and if she doesn’t it might be a lot of pressure for her,” Cindy tells Vogue.
Cindy adds: “If you a have successful parent and you go into the same business but you’re not successful then what?”
Kaia is already making a big splash in the industry with runway shows for Marc Jacobs and appearances in Teen Vogue, Pop Magazine and Paris Vogue.
In her most recent splash she dazzles as the cover girl for Kendell Jenner’s Love magazine.
She also inherited her mother’s photogenic features and long brunette locks.
Cindy was briefly married actor Richard Gere in 1991, but they divorced in 1995.
In 1998, she married former model and American entertainment industry businessman Rande Gerber, who is Kaia’s father.
Cindy quit full-time modelling in 2000 after having her son Presley in 1999 and Kaia in 2001, but she’s still in hot demand.
“My daughter hates it because there are often times people ask her if I’m her older sister,” Cindy tells ET.
“Obviously, that’s not something she wants to hear, but it is music to my ears!”
Cindy also tells Vogue: “It [modelling] is like a sport that you can get better at. Even though you get older, you’re like an ageing athlete who knows the game.”
Despite what she presents to the outside world, Cindy attests she is shy and quiet. On location shoots, she would force herself to go out for team dinners, “because I realised I might miss out on opportunities or making friends, but my temptation would be to not go at all [and have] room service and my book”, she remembers.
“As a model you’re a 19-year-old girl who walks into a room where everybody is older than you and you’re supposed to bring the magic. You learn to fake it until you make it.”
And her advice for those like her daughter just starting out?
“You can be a pain in the ass as a model, high-maintenance and hungover and they will put up with it for a while if you’re the hot new kid on the block,” she says.
“But that gets old and soon there is another new hot thing. But if you’re professional, ready to work and trying to learn, you are bringing something to the table.”
