Daisy Fuentes made TV history in the late 1980s as the first person to do double duty as a veejay on both MTV and its Spanish-language sister network MTV Latino. The tall, attractive TV personality was born in Cuba and spent part of her formative years in Spain before her family arrived in the USA and settled in New Jersey in the early 1970s. A neighbor employed in fashion asked a 16-year-old Fuentes to serve as a substitute for a sick model at a photo shoot, launching a career as a print model. While still a college student and not yet out of teens, she landed a gig as a weather girl at Manhattan's Univision affiliate (WXTV Channel 41). Switching to rival Telemundo, she graduated to news reader. Hired in 1988 as the host of "MYV Internacional", a one-hour Spanish-language music show aired in Latin America and the USA, Fuentes moved to MTV, where she achieved name recognition as one of that network's more popular hosts and soon was courted by companies to be a spokesmodel.

No one before or since had made a facial mole such a beautiful feature, and Cindy Crawford and her famous mole graced more magazines than anyone else in the world, boasting over 600 covers during her supermodel peak years throughout the 1990s. With her unique All-American look in a sea of exotic-looking Naomi Campbell’s, Linda Evangelista’s and Christy Turlington’s, she stood out from the pack. It did not hurt that her effervescent personality translated effectively to the small screen, most especially when hosting the then popular MTV program, “House of Style” (1989- ). Her personal life transfixed the public, most especially her romance with Hollywood leading man, Richard Gere. In fact, of all her supermodel peers, Crawford continued to fascinate and work consistently past the usual retirement years of her 30s – without having cocaine arrests or assault charges keeping her in the news.