It seems Cindy Crawford didn't go through an awkward stage in high school.
The 47-year-oldtweeted a newspaper clipping of her very first modelling gig when she was a 16-year-old wannabe growing up in Dekalb, Illinois, in 1982.
The
iconic supermodel was clearly in a nostalgic mood as she wistfully
captioned the scrapbook snap saying that it was her 'first cover'.
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Nostalgic tweet: Cindy Crawford posted a vintage snap to Twitter of her 'first cover' from when she was a high school student in Dekalb, Illinois, on Thursday
In the vintage black and white advertisement, in the DeKalb Nite Weekly, Cindy can be seen reclining poolside in a skimpy two-piece.
The Vogue model captioned the clipping: 'My very first "cover" during high school in DeKalb, shot in my highschool boyfriend's backyard...'
And quickly followed up with another tweet, writing: 'Believe me when I say I had absolutely no idea where that photo would lead to!'
Just the beginning: The 47-year-old went on to become one of the world's most recognizable women as a top earning supermodel
Prior to becoming one of the world's most recognisable faces Cindy graduated as high school valedictorian of her 1984 class.
She went on to win an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University, but soon dropped out to model full time in Manhattan with the Elite New York modelling agency.
In a Vimeo interview with Katie Sarro in 2012 Cindy opened up about her first modelling gig: 'My very first job was in a Chicago. I'm from a small town 60 miles west of Chicago called DeKalb, Illinois.'
Complex woman: Cindy was valedictorian at her high school and even won an academic scholarship to a top university before dropping out to model full time
'I started modeling with an agency there and
the first job they got me was for bras for Marshall Fields, which is a
department store in Chicago. It was for the newspaper ad.'
Adding: 'When you do lingerie, it's kind of a big deal to decide to do that. I think I was 16 or 17 at the time. It wasn't a Victoria Secret sexy bra; it was a Cross Your Heart bra.'
But the gig proved to be controversial for the then teenager: 'It ended up plastered all over my high school, which was somewhat humiliating.'
Though the future supermodel soon found a way to overcome the negative attention: 'But when you do lingerie you make time and a half. So I was like, "Do you know how much I made? I made $150 to make that picture." So that kind of shut everyone up.'