Cindy Crawford Loses Pepsi Deal To New Model HONOLULU, HI -- Pepsico announced today that super model Cindy Crawford will be replaced as spokesmodel for Pepsi-Cola. Vernelle Kam McElfresh, known as The Cactus of Waikiki in her native Honolulu, has been signed to replace Crawford as the model on Pepsi TV commercials. Miss McElfresh is shown in a photo to the left following a TV commercial video tape session to introduce new Pepsi Pink. Pepsico officials indicated that her recently signed 10-year contract is worth an estimated $144,000,000. Miss Crawford, reportedly despondent at losing the lucrative Pepsi deal, remained in seclusion at her home in Colby, KS. Advertising executives said that Miss McElfresh had developed a special way of using her voluptuous lips to empty the contents from a can of Pepsi. NEXT PHOTO PREVIOUS PHOTO PHOTO NOTES Wow. A picture is worth a thousand words, huh? Doesn't Vernelle look great? This is one of my all time favorite photographs. Besides the one where she's pregnant, that is. Uh, well, there's also the photo where she's caught 'milking' body fluids for the boy's lunch. Hmmm. And then there's that photograph of her eating a manapua. In one bite. And then there are all those National Inquirer photos. But outside of those, this one is a favorite. See me for reprints. The photo in the story above was taken by a friend in a photo studio in Honolulu in late 1995.