International supermodel Cindy Crawfordchronicles her life and career, sharing storiesand lessons learned, and featuring her mostmemorable images Cindy Crawford was the cornerstone of the goldenage of the supermodel in the 1990s. She blazed a trailduring that decade, seamlessly moving between therunway to unconventional outlets, such as cuttingedgeMTV, Super Bowl commercials, and evenPlayboy magazine.On the eve of her fiftieth birthday, Crawford looksback, photo shoot by photo shoot, on a remarkablecareer and various life lessons she absorbed. Shediscusses her earliest modeling years and learninghow to become less self-conscious in front of acamera; trusting her own instincts about creatingpositive messages about a healthy and strong bodyimage that she knew would reach women of all ages;her feelings about becoming a wife and a mother; andher thoughts about turning fifty and what she wouldtell her younger self if she had the chance.The photographs span her entire career, beginningfrom the mid 1980s, and feature unpublished imagesfrom Crawford's personal archive in addition toimages by every top name in fashion photography,including Annie Leibovitz, Arthur Elgort, HelmutNewton, Herb Ritts, Irving Penn, Patrick Demarchelier,and Richard Avedon, among others.A beautifully illustrated series of stories, Becoming isa smart and engaging book that sheds light into thelife and work of an extraordinary woman.