Cindy Crawford confronts Oprah for treating her poorly during her modeling years

Supermodel Cindy Crawford recalls feeling objectified early in her career by Oprah Winfrey. According to Crawford, it happened during her appearance on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in 1986, alongside her agent John Casablancas. The model, who was only 20 years old at the time, was asked to stand before the audience while Winfrey complimented her figure.

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Cindy Crawford, left, and Oprah Winfrey. (Getty Images)

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"Did she always have this body?" Winfrey asks Casablancas, founder of Elite Model Management and credited with discovering Crawford. "Stand up just a moment. Now this is what I call a body," Winfrey marvels.

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Did she have to go through that training period, or no?" Winfrey inquired about Crawford's slim figure, shown in a flashback on the Apple TV+ show "The Super Models.

Cindy Crawford commanded the runways of the '90s, pictured from left in 1991, 1993 and 1997. (Vittoriano Rastelli/Victor VIRGILE/Alexis DUCLOS/Getty Images)

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"I was like the chattel. Or a child — be seen and not heard," Crawford recalls in present day of the moment.

"When you look at it through today's eyes when Oprah's, like, 'Stand up and show me your body.' Like, show us why you're worthy of being here. In the moment, I didn't recognize it. Only when I look back at it and I was, like, 'Oh, my gosh, that was so not okay, really.' Especially from Oprah," Crawford admitted.

Representatives for Crawford and Winfrey did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Oprah Winfrey hosted her talk show from 1986 to 2011. (Paras Griffin/Getty Images for ESSENCE)

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The docuseries follows the lives of some of the '90s most successful models, including Crawford, Linda Evangelista, Naomi Campbell, and Christy Turlington.

"I never felt like I looked special or different. If anything, I wasn't like the ugly duckling, but in my high school, the pretty girls were like the little petite cheerleaders. That was what the idea of beauty was in my small town," Crawford recalls of her upbringing. "I never even thought about modeling. I didn't even know it was a real job. I didn't know how I would get from DeKalb, Illinois, to a magazine."

Cindy Crawford and her father pose for a photo taken in Wisconsin. (Cindy Crawford/Instagram)

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Crawford reveals that even her parents were hesitant about her pursuing a modeling career. "My dad really didn't understand that modeling was a real career. He thought modeling was like another name for prostitution," she said. Crawford also shares that her parents accompanied her to her very first modeling appointment.