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Jasmine Allday

Where iconic 1990s supermodels are now after Linda Evangelista's botched procedure

Christy Turlington, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer and Linda Evangelista are best known as The Big Six.

The models all rose to fame in the 1990s, appearing on the front of magazine covers and in the biggest advertising campaigns for the top fashion brands at the time.

They were so successful, the word supermodel was created just to describe this new group of uber-famous runway stars.

Over three decades on, their lives have all taken quite different routes - with some turning their talents to talk shows, whilst others watch their kids take to the catwalk.

For Linda Evangelista, she recently returned to the spotlight to reveal she is taking a company to court after a botched cosmetics procedure left her "permanently deformed".

Here we take a look at where the Big Six models are now.

Linda Evangelista

Linda Evangelista on the catwalk back in 1997 (Reuters)
Linda looked dramatically different in 2017 (SplashNews.com)

Linda Evangelista returned to the spotlight on Thursday after five years of keeping a low profile.

She revealed she was taking a cosmetics company to court after having a botched procedure, where her fat cells increased rather than decreased.

The 56-year-old model said the procedure left her "permanently deformed" and she has developed Paradoxical Adipose Hyperplasia (PAH), but she is "tired" of hiding herself and wants to be able to walk around with "her head held high".

"PAH has not only destroyed my livelihood, it has sent me into a cycle of deep depression, profound sadness and the lowest depths of self-loathing. In the process, I have become a recluse," she wrote in her Instagram post.

"I'm so tired of living this way. I would like to walk out my door with my head held high, despite not looking like myself any longer."

Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington in Paris in October 1993 (Getty)
Christy pictured back in 2014 (Getty)

Christy Turlington, too, rose to fame in the 1990s and she remembers her first magazine cover so clearly.

It was for a Calvin Klein campaign and she recalls how she couldn't believe she was on the front of a magazine.

"At a certain point, so much has happened and you've done so much that there isn't really one story that stands out," the 52-year-old supermodel told Harper's Bazaar.

"But, I remember the first of most things. So, my first big campaign: a Calvin Klein campaign. My first magazine cover.

"All the firsts. And, I can remember every person and every detail. Sharing those first experiences with people helps them stay particularly present in my mind."

Christy works on a lot of charity campaigns now and also serves on the Harvard Medical School Global Health Council.

She also campaigns against smoking, as an ex-smoker herself and having sadly lost her dad to lung cancer.

Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford walks for Chanel in 1994 (Getty)
Cindy now attends her children's own runway events (Getty Images for Cantor Fitzgerald)

Cindy Crawford's career has only gone from strength to strength since she hit the catwalk in the 1990s.

She still does plenty of modelling now, and recently re-created one of her biggest looks from the 90s.

Cindy, 55, returned to the original Halfway House from her famous Pepsi commercial in 1992 in a bid to raise funds for the American Family Children’s Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin where her brother was treated for leukaemia.

Her kids - Kaia Gerber and Presley Gerber - are also keen models, following in their mother's footsteps.

"I always say even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford!" she told Women's Health of the process behind her famous photoshoots.

"What people see on magazine covers is one moment that was perfect - the wind, the light, the hair, the makeup. That's a two-hour process. It's good to have an awareness of that outside pressure, but I can't let it get to my core."

Naomi Campbell

Naomi Campbell at Milan Fashion Week in 1998 (Reuters)
Naomi recently became a mother to a baby girl (Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Naomi Campbell is still very involved in the fashion world, three decades after she first broke onto the modelling scene.

The 51-year-old model still regularly appears on the catwalk and in 2018, she was handed the Fashion Icon award by the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

During the coronavirus pandemic, she started her own YouTube series called No Filter with Naomi, and was joined by a whole host of celebrity guests including the likes of Marc Jacobs, Nicole Richie and Ashley Graham.

She has also been joined by her fellow supermodels - Cindy Crawford and Christy Turlington - for the series, which premiered its 50th episode earlier this year.

Naomi also recently welcomed her first child - a baby girl - into the world.

Appearing on BBC Hardtalk, she revealed of her little one: "I'm really lucky I have a dream child. She's wonderful.

"She's very independent already, very smart, alert, sleeps 12 hours. She's a good girl."

Kate Moss

Kate Moss walks the runway in Paris in 1993 (Getty)
Kate recently watched her daughter Lila take to the runway (Getty Images)

Kate Moss, 47, was known as one of the 1990s' wildest party girls and she soon cemented her position at the top of her field.

Her career took off quickly and when she was 16, she landed her first magazine cover. It was shot by Corrine Day for the hugely influential magazine, The Face.

But she has long put her party days behind her, and after a highly-publicised addiction to drugs, she is now sober and clean.

"I go to bed, I drink lots of water, not too much coffee, and I'm trying to cut down on cigarettes," she said of her lifestyle change.

Kate's daughter Lila has followed in her footsteps and models too now, and Kate couldn't be prouder of her.

"Yeah it was so emotional seeing Lila on the runway, it wasn't emotional I was really nervous for her," she said.

"I was sitting on the kitchen table and Katie England was there and Rosemary, and other girlfriends, and we were waiting for the show to start on the link, and when she came out we were like she's doing it, she's doing it! I was so proud."

Claudia Schiffer

Claudia attends a Chanel show in Paris in 2019 (Getty Images)

Claudia Schiffer rose to fame in the '90s, way before Instagram even existed - and she definitely thinks she wouldn't have had the career she did if Instagram was around when she started out.

"I don’t think I would have been able to do it," she explained to The Edit.

"You have to reveal so much about yourself, and I’m a very private person, and quite shy."

She was regularly told her career would end in her 30s but now at the age of 51, the German model is defying the odds and still regularly appears in campaigns and on magazine covers.

She said: "When I started [modelling], they used to say, 'At 30, your career is over.'

"They used to programme that in. It felt normal."

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