Cindy Crawford made it clear she doesn't like giving advice to her adult kids.
Cindy Crawford Does Not 'Offer Unsolicited Advice' to Adult Children Kaia and Presley: 'I Really Try Hard'
Cindy Crawford is anything but a helicopter parent.
During a recent appearance on the "Kelly Corrigan Wonders: About Your Mother" podcast, the supermodel, 58, opened up about parenting her kids, Kaia, 22, and Presley Gerber, 24, as they approach their adult years and how she's kept any advice she has for them to herself.
Cindy Crawford has a hands-off approach to parenting her kids now that they're adults.
"They know if they ask me, they’re going to get my real opinion," Crawford explained. "But if they don’t ask me … I really try hard, and I’m probably about 70 percent good at this … I try not to offer unsolicited advice."
The fashion icon noted how her own mother operated in raising her and has followed suit. "Don’t give advice unless [it’s] asked for," Crawford recalled her parent telling her.
Cindy Crawford recalled her own mother telling her not to give advice to her children.
"Show up, shut up and wear beige. It’s about when you’re showing up for your kids or… it would be more I guess if you were to be the perfect mother-in-law at a wedding. She’s like, ‘It’s not about you, you don’t want to stand out,'" she added.
The mother-of-two reflected on how it wasn't easy for her to uproot her life at such a young age to pursue modeling. "I definitely was afraid to leave," she said.
Cindy Crawford left home at an early age to become a world-famous model.
"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.’"
"I was making more money than my parents made and more money then they could’ve ever even dreamed of," she continued of her success. "Quickly, within a year."
Kaia Gerber recently revealed the funny thing Cindy Crawford did before her first big fashion show.
Despite not being one to dole out advice, Crawford's daughter admitted her mom has fully prepared her as she follows in her fashion footsteps. "I remember right before I was going to do my first-ever fashion show, she sat me down and had my whole family gather around and played me compilation videos of models falling," Kaia explained during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in April.
“I think to be like, ‘This is the worst case scenario.’ And I was like, ‘I didn’t even know you could fall this many different ways,’” she noted. "Knock on wood, I haven’t ever fallen. Maybe she scared me enough that I didn’t fall."
