Time & Perspective Quote by Cindy Crawford

Cindy Crawford frames self-care the way a working mother often has to: not as a serene lifestyle choice, but as a logistical hack. She starts with a near-clinical truth - alone time matters - then immediately punctures it with the reality of “a busy day,” where the first thing sacrificed is the thing that keeps you functional. That pivot is doing a lot of work: it signals she’s not selling an aspirational wellness routine, she’s confessing the triage.

The cleverness is in how she uses her job as both privilege and permission. “Because of my job, I have to find the time” reframes personal need as professional obligation. It’s a socially acceptable excuse in a culture that still expects mothers to justify any moment not spent producing, caretaking, or optimizing. Even for someone with money, help, and access, she implies the guilt reflex is still there, so she recruits work to overrule it.

“At least that’s the way my mind sees it” is the tell: she’s exposing the mental gymnastics. The line reads like a wink at her own coping mechanism, an admission that the story we tell ourselves (“I have to”) can be the only way to protect a boundary. Coming from a supermodel whose brand helped define “having it all,” the subtext is quietly corrective: balance isn’t a moral achievement. It’s negotiated, sometimes irrationally, sometimes by outsourcing the justification to whatever sounds least selfish.