Reporter Double-Checks Story Ahead of Cindy Crawford Interview

The Northwestern University anecdote was news to the supermodel.

Occasionally, a lede writes itself.

As a freshman at Northwestern University, Carina Chocano was told by a female friend that after the latter’s sister had joked before heading to the same university that she hoped she didn’t end up with a “Vogue model as a roomate,” she wound up being paired with Cindy Crawford. From the top of Chocano’s profile for the February issue of United Airlines in-flight magazine Rhapsody:

By the time I heard the story, two years later, Crawford had dropped out of Northwestern, moved to New York, and become so famous that the story took on the quality of a cosmic practical joke… It was so perfect, in fact, that as I was getting ready to meet Crawford, I wondered if maybe it was apocryphal.

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