Cindy Crawford is probably the most well-known super model of all time. But it wasn’t always like that for her. While she was in college in DeKalb, Illinois, she once took a job shucking corn and was paid only $4 an hour. That is work that is rough enough for a man, let alone a soon to be supermodel. But it worked out well for Crawford as that’s where a photographer discovered her and a star was born.

Crawford turned shucking corn into a career that has spanned over thirty years and led to international fame. She has been in numerous movies and on countless television shows throughout her career and Forbes magazine named her as the highest paid model on the planet in 1995. That’s a long way from shucking corn for $4 an hour.

She was one of the original five “Supermodels” and she has been named at the top or near the top of countless “Hottest” lists. VH-1’s 40 Hottest Hotties of the 90s ranked her at #4 and later she was named on the “100 Hottest Women of All-Time” list by Men’s Health. I wonder how many people saw her in the fields before that photographer found her.