Cindy Crawford shares lovely photo of her beautiful kids!

She earned her millions as one of the original big five supermodels, the women who coined the phrase on the catwalk.

But despite being associated with all things glamour and luxury in the late Eighties and Nineties, Cindy Crawford has revealed it is when she is living a stripped back existence, free of everything except life necessities, she feels her true self

Speaking to American Vogue, the stunning 49-year-old opened up the doors of her island getaway in Ontario, Canada, which she and her husband Rande Gerber built seven years ago.

For one month every summer she retreats up there with her family, and is happy to sit hour after hour and take in the natural beauty of her surroundings, as she reclines on the dock.

The former supermodel said she is also partial to what she calls 'granny swims' with the other residents of the island community.

She revealed: 'You're the real you up here. You never have your game face on, your party face. When you’re getting dragged behind a boat on an inner tube, it’s hard to have much of a facade.'

For a woman who was at the height of her career one of the most recognisable faces on the planet, she says she now relishes her anonymity: 'These days I’m the perfect amount of famous: enough to get a dinner reservation but not enough to get hassled.'

The brunette also revealed she wishes she had the confidence she now has in herself when she was at the height of her career saying she never had that when she was strutting her stuff with fellow supermodels Lina Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Claudia Schiffer.

Their property is only accessible by boat, something which Cindy says she feels makes them especially hardcore as they are island cottagers.

She adds she and the couple's two children Presley, 15, and Kaia, 16, live a simple life of their own, boating on the lake, cliff diving, bass fishing and wake surfing.