Would Cindy Crawford have made it as a model today?

CINDY CRAWFORD has been criticised for letting her daughter become a model at a young age. But she ain’t bovvered by 16-year-old Kaia’s foray into the shark-infested shallows of the glamour industry.

Earlier this month, she said: ‘My daughter has just got her driving licence. I’m a lot more concerned about her driving by herself than her entering the world of modelling.’

Is she really that sure? A former supermodel, Cindy seems remarkably relaxed considering the modelling world is full of sleaze buckets and snakes on the make, just like the film world. Any industry with a surfeit of beautiful young women always attracts sex-mad older men who are keen, just like Harvey Weinstein, to get their crabbed hands on that lovely young flesh. Cindy clearly feels she can protect her girl from the pitfalls.

Elsewhere, I can’t imagine Kaia is doing much for the body image issues of normal girls. As the latest catwalk darling, she is as leggy as a grasshopper and as slim as a whittled wand. The prized model silhouette of the moment is so freakishly thinspirational that it puts more pressure on girls who ache to be as slim as Kaia, Alexa Chung and others.

One wonders if the curvy, sporty, fit young Cindy in her heyday would even make it onto the catwalk today . . .