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"  Her cherubic cheeks and wide eyes are recognized all over the world as the face of Gerber baby food. And while many people think the iconic illustration is a composite of idealized adorable babies, it&amp;#039;s actually based on a real person: Ann Turner Cook. In 1928, Cook&amp;#039;s neighbor Dorothy Hope Smith submitted a drawing of then 4-month-old Ann to a contest searching for &amp;quot;a face to represent a baby food advertising campaign.&amp;quot; Smith&amp;#039;s charcoal sketch won, and the simple illustration (which was competing against elaborate oil paintings) has represented the Gerber brand ever since. &amp;quot;That face is honored for &amp;#039;We&amp;#039;re doing the best we can for our child,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Gerber&amp;#039;s CEO says about the indelible image. Ann Turner Cook is now 87 and a great-grandmother, but her kids always got a kick out of their mother&amp;#039;s famous face. &amp;quot;My own children would go through a grocery store, and they would point to the Gerber baby food and say, &amp;#039;That&amp;#039;s my mother&amp;#039;s picture,&amp;#039; to whoever was walking by,&amp;quot; she CBS Sunday Morning. The company thanked her for her contribution to the brand in the 1950s, and Cook used the money to put a down payment on a house and buy her first car. Still, Ann&amp;#039;s favorite part of her lifelong experience is hearing other people&amp;#039;s loving associations with her portrait. &amp;quot;It reminds them of their own babies. Everybody says &amp;#039;My baby or my grandchild looks like the Gerber baby&amp;#039; \u2014 regardless of ethnicity. I can&amp;#039;t think of anything nicer than being a symbol for babies and that&amp;#039;s what I think I became.&amp;quot; [Via The Huffington Post] Via Redbook "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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