Cindy Crawford has opened up about her divorce from Richard Gere 18 years ago, saying their age difference was to blame.
“I think a lot of what happened with Richard and I was, I was still 22 and at 22 – as a young woman – I was kind of still figuring out who I was and what I wanted to be and he was already 37,” she explains to Oprah Winfrey on an upcoming episode of “Oprah’s Master Class.”
The two were married for four years before they called it quits in 1995. The supermodel feels that she may have changed too much over the course of their marriage.
“I just think your twenties for women is such a time when you’re starting to come into your own and feel your own power and connect to your inner strength and it’s hard to do that – it’s hard to change – in a relationship, because what one person might have signed up for, all of a sudden, you’re not that anymore,” she said.
“I think I was more willing at 22 to be, like, ‘Okay, I’ll follow,’ but then you start going, ‘Well, I don’t want to just follow – I want to lead sometimes and I want to walk side by side sometimes.'”
Crawford, however, credits the “Pretty Woman” actor for teaching her how to deal with her blossoming fame.
“When I would see how he was with fans when they approached him…. I got to look to him to see how he created boundaries for himself,” she said.
Crawford is now married to Rande Gerber, and they have been together for 15 years. Gere has been married to Carey Lowell since 2002.