Cindy Crawford says she began making more money than her parents at 18

Cindy Crawford revealed she began making more money than her parents by the age of 18.

While reminiscing about her early modeling career, the supermodel, 58, explained that she started out-earning her parents ‘quickly, within a year.’

‘I started modeling in Chicago, and in Chicago, it’s a small pond, so I was the big fish pretty quickly there,’ the catwalk queen said while appearing on the Kelly Corrigan Wonders podcast with Christy Turlington.

She added, ‘And I was making more money than my parents made, more money than they could ever have even dreamed of.’

After her brother Jeffery died of childhood leukemia at age 3 in 1975, Crawford’s quick wealth made her feel like ‘I was the son in a weird way.’

‘Like, when I got married and didn’t change my name, [my dad] was like, ‘Yeah, the Crawford name will go on!” she recalled.

‘I was able to help where I could,’ added Crawford. ‘I don’t feel like I became the dad.’

Crawford noted that she’s ‘been able to take [her family] on nice vacations,’ following her January girls trip to Miami with mother Jennifer and sisters Chris and Danielle.

‘Fun weekend with my mom and sisters,’ she captioned a group photo from at the time. 

Despite her wealth, Crawford said she tries to avoid buying lavish gifts for her two siblings.

The brunette beauty fears that by being too generous, she could actually ’emasculate their husbands’.

Cindy explained: ‘If I’m giving my sister a nicer ring than her husband gives them or something like that, it just becomes this weird thing.

‘I was more about giving experiences and then helping them if they need a down payment on a house or something like that. My sisters have been awesome because they always paid it back. But navigating being in that financial position where you could do a lot is tricky.’

The Meaningful Beauty mogul previously reunited with Turlington, 55, Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell last month for a screening of their Apple TV+ docuseries The Super Models.

Her daughter Kaia Gerber, also a model, said she ‘was star-struck in front of her after’ watching the doc as she didn’t previously realize how ‘iconic’ her mother was.

‘I thought it was so cool that she always had that ambition, and she did things where people told her, ‘This will ruin your career. Don’t do this,” explained Kaia, 22. ‘And she trusted her instincts.’

Crawford shares Kaia and son Presley, 24, with husband Rande Gerber.