an American glamour spokesmodel and actress
A Los Angeles native, model, actress, TV/radio host Cindy Margolis is best known as the most downloaded woman in cyberspace, which led to her being named “Queen of the Internet” by Yahoo Internet Life magazine (1996-1999). The largest selling poster model in the world, Margolis launched her modeling career on her own and, so far, her familiar face has decorated numerous magazine covers and appeared in commercials for Reebok, Vidal Sassoon, Coors, Hanes and Sunkist.
Cindy excelled at sport but was not much of an academic, reportedly achieving for her GCSE exams one C in Science, with the remainder being Ds, Es and Fs.
During her years at California State University, Northridge, she produced a number of greeting cards with a picture of her in lingerie for a class project. Agents who got copies of the cards started asking around for her and this became her passport to the modeling world.
Margolis emerged as a star in the early days of the Internet. She was named Yahoo! Internet Life magazine's "Queen of the Internet" from 1996 to 1999. She also found her way into the 2000 Guinness Book of World Records as a result of being the "most downloaded" person in 1999. At the peak of her popularity, images of Margolis were downloaded 70,000 times in a span of 24 hours.
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For all of Cindy's career success, she faced a cold reality in her efforts to have a child. She went from worldwide star to one of the more than nine million women each year desperately trying to conceive. After more than a year of disappointment and with a growing sense of insecurity, Cindy began a determined effort to have a family - an effort that included an array of treatments (including five in-vitro fertilizations and surrogacy). Her journey resulted in three happy and healthy children. This profound experience led Cindy on a quest to help women navigate the world of infertility treatments and procedures, leading her to pen the book "Having a Baby...When the Old-Fashioned Way Isn't Working: Hope and Help for Everyone Facing Infertility". Sincere, supportive, and funny - Cindy provides the direction, advice, and information that could only come from a woman who's been in the trenches and emerged battle-scarred, but victorious.
Savvy self-promotion and sheer determination helped Cindy achieve stardom, but she accepts a certain amount of luck was involved with her (or anyone) being initially discovered by the entertainment industry. Realizing through the years how many undiscovered, talent individuals never receive that bit of luck she has always had a certain degree of committment in her own career goals focused on ways to change that .
Recognized recently as the only woman in the 100 TOP PEOPLE IN THE WORLD who molded the World Wide Web as we know it today..... and the receipient of many Internet related achievement awards Cindy sets out today to take advantage of her lifetime internet and entertainment achievements, combining them to finally and ultimately bring a level playing field to anyone with stars in their eyes and dreams of being discovered.
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Launched in the Spring of 2012, theSEEN.com is quickly becoming the premier online destination for talent looking to belong to and benefit by the success of those that went before them. With the right tools, the right connections and the right opportunities, everyone gets a fair shot at reaching their goals. Cindy vows to bring that and more to all in a "One You, One Place... Online" format . Sunday News
She was married to restaurateur Guy Starkman. Following in-vitro fertility treatment, she gave birth to son Nicholas Isaac in 2002. Their twin daughters Sabrina and Sierra were born in 2005 with the incubation of a surrogate mother. Margolis and her husband separated in 2008.
