Christy Turlington

Christy Turlington

Turlington Burns (2010)
Born Christy Nicole Turlington
(1969-01-02) January 2, 1969
Walnut Creek, California, USA
Alma mater New York University, Columbia University
Spouse(s) Edward Burns (m. 2003)
Children 2

Modeling information

Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)[1]
Hair color Brown[1]
Eye color Green[1]

Christy Nicole Turlington Burns[2] (born Christy Nicole Turlington; January 2, 1969)[1] is an American supermodel. She first represented Calvin Klein's Eternity campaign in 1989 and again in 2014[3] and also represents Maybelline. Turlington was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2013,[4] and was named as one of Time's 100 Most Influential People of 2014.[5] Turlington gained fame in the late 80s and early 90s as a supermodel and was during the peak of her career as a top designer favourite. She, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista are called the "Trinity" because of the power and fame that all three gained.

In 2010, Turlington founded Every Mother Counts, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take actions and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world. It was founded after the completion of Turlington's documentary, No Woman, No Cry, a film about pregnant women and their caregivers in Tanzania, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and the United States. In 2013, Turlington directed the documentary film, Every Mile, Every Mother which explores Every Mother Counts' participation in long distance running to highlight distance as a barrier for women to receive quality care.[6]

Early life

Christy Nicole Turlington was born on January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California, the middle of three daughters born to Dwain Turlington, a pilot for Pan American World Airways, and María Elizabeth (née Parker Infante), a flight attendant from Cojutepeque, El Salvador.[7][8]

She was discovered by local photographer Dennie Cody while she was riding a horse in Miami, Florida, where her father was working as a training captain for Pan Am.[9] Turlington began modeling after school from age 14 to 16 and during summers while she attended Monte Vista High School.[1][10] After turning 18, she moved to New York City to model full-time, and later graduated from high school. She went back to school in 1994 and graduated cum laude in 1999 from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study of New York University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy.[10] She continued her studies at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[11]

Career

Modeling

During the 1990s, she appeared in Unzipped, a documentary about fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, and the fashion mockumentary film Prêt-à-Porter by director Robert Altman. Additionally, she was featured in Catwalk, a documentary about her life on the fashion runways by director Robert Leacock. She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American Vogue as one of the "Modern Muses".[12] Turlington graced the cover of countless international fashion magazines across the globe, including Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle,g Marie Claire, L'Officiel, Tatler, Glamour, Cosmopolitan and Allure.

Turlington has been featured in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Prada, Valentino, Versace, Louis Vuitton, Bally, Jason Wu, Max Mara, Escada, Michael Kors, and Maybelline. She also appeared in two music videos. Fellow model Yasmin Le Bon got her husband Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran to feature Turlington in their "Notorious" video in 1986, at the age of 17. In 1990, singer George Michael drew inspiration from Peter Lindbergh's January 1990 British Vogue cover (which features Turlington, Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, and Tatjana Patitz) for his "Freedom!" video. The video featured all top 5 female models along with their top 5 male counterparts, lip-syncing the song. The video was shown during George Michael's 2008 concert tour while he sang.

Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped. She was added on as the fourth model investor, after Elle Macpherson, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer of the now defunct Fashion Cafes.

Christy Turlington posing for PETA. The series of ads triggered criticism from feminist animal rights advocates.[13]

She has appeared on over 500 magazine covers and has been featured in several professional photobooks, including Peter Lindbergh's 10 Women, the cover of Arthur Elgort's Model Manual, Herb Ritts Man/Woman, and Karl Lagerfeld's Off the Record. In 1993 she posed nude for PETA's anti-fur campaign.

In honor of Turlington's fortieth birthday, W magazine put together a collection of notable images from her career, from runway shots from the late eighties to today.[14] In 2008, casting agent James Scully said in regards to Turlington:

“ The greatest model of all time! You could combine every model to this day into one person, and they wouldn't come close (sorry, girls). Probably the biggest crush I've ever had on a girl. It would be a dream to have the opportunity of working with her on a show again before I retire, but that seems about as likely as winning the lottery.[15] ”

Turlington was one of the faces to land in one of the fourteen covers of V magazine September 2008 issue. Each cover boasts a head shot of a famous model, either from the new crop of leading models or the supermodel era, it was lensed by duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.[16]

She featured in the Bally spring/summer 2009 campaign alongside Oriol Elcacho.[17]

Other business ventures

In the 2000s, she has become a partner in a variety of business ventures: an ayurvedic skincare line, Sundari,[18] and two clothing lines produced by Puma,[19] an active women's clothing line; and a women's yoga-wear line.[20]

She has contributed writings to Marie Claire, Yoga Journal, and Teen Vogue along with contributions to the Huffington Post, Canada’s Globe and Mail, and the UK’s Evening Standard. She has also contributed to NBC’s Today Show as a guest correspondent, which included reporting on the status of girl’s education in Afghanistan in early 2002 and an interview with H.H. Dalai Lama at his home in Dharamsala, India.[21]

She was also an initial product tester for the Apple Watch launch in 2015, participating in the press conference and allowing them to film a segment featuring her use of the Apple Watch to train for a marathon.[22]

Humanitarian activities

Anti-smoking public service announcement featuring Turlington from 2000

In 2005 Turlington began working with the international humanitarian organization CARE and has since become their Advocate for Maternal Health.[23][24] She is also an Ambassador for Product Red.[25]

After suffering complications in her own 2003 childbirth, and upon learning that over 500,000 women die each year during childbirth (of which 90% of the deaths are preventable), Turlington was inspired to pursue a Master's degree in Public Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[26][27]

Turlington visited Swaziland in May 2007 on behalf of Product Red,[28] and El Salvador and Peru in 2005 and 2008, respectively, on behalf of CARE.[23][29] Her involvement with CARE was influenced by her mother, Elizabeth, who has been a longtime CARE supporter through her former flight attendants’ organization, World Wings.[29] The FEMME project, a coming together of CARE, Columbia University, and local government, brings health-care practitioners together to find better methods of serving the large number of women needing assistance who are too intimidated to seek help in a clinic or traditional hospital.[29]

In September 2010, Turlington participated in a CARE Learning Tour to Ethiopia to investigate the work being done to reduce maternal deaths.[24]

Turlington currently serves on the Harvard Medical School Global Health Council, and as an advisor to the Harvard School of Public Health Board of Dean’s Advisors,[30] She is a member of White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood[31] and Mother’s Day Every Day.[32]

An ex-smoker whose father died of lung cancer, Turlington is an anti-smoking activist.[33][34]

No Woman, No Cry

Turlington made her directorial debut on the 2010 documentary film No Woman, No Cry.[35] The 60 minute documentary profiles the status of maternal health and focuses on four cases: from Tanzania, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and the United States.[35] The film made its world premiere at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in the United States,[36] and the U.S. television broadcast premiere aired on the new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) on May 7, 2011.[37] The documentary earned Turlington a nomination for the Do Something With Style Award from the VH1 Do Something Awards.[38]

Every Mother Counts

Concurrent with the debut of her documentary No Woman, No Cry, Turlington launched Every Mother Counts (EMC), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take actions and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world. EMC currently supports programs in Haiti, Uganda, Malawi, Indonesia, and the United States.[39]

Turlington completed her first New York City Marathon in 2011, running with Team Every Mother Counts to raise awareness for maternal and child health.[40][41] She also ran the 2013 ING NYC Marathon with Team EMC and 2013 Hood to Coast Relay, which is featured in her documentary film, Every Mile, Every Mother.[6]

The charity released a short film series entitled Giving Birth in America some-time a little before May 2015.[42]

Albums

Every Mother Counts
Compilation album by various artists
Released April 12, 2011
Recorded 1990s–2010s
Label Starcon LLC / Hear Music / Starbucks Entertainment

Every Mother Counts is a compilation album that was released in 2011 exclusively to Starbucks, with a proportion of the proceeds to be donated to CARE and the Every Mother Counts organisation to support its maternal health care programs in coffee growing countries worldwide.[35][43] The contributing artists on the CD are: Carla Bruni, Gwyneth Paltrow, Madonna, Patti Scialfa, Toshi Reagon, Angelique Kidjo, Ani DiFranco, Dixie Chicks, Rosanne Cash, Sheryl Crow, Jennifer Lopez, Karen Elson, Sinéad O'Connor, and Martha Wainwright.[44]

Every Mother Counts 2012 is a compilation album that was released in 2012 in partnership with Starbucks.[45] The contributing artists on the CD are: Bono and The Edge, Eddie Vedder, Paul Simon and Edie Brickell, Faith Hill, Sade, Lauryn Hill, Rita Wilson, Diana Krall, Seal, Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Alanis Morissette, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, David Bowie, Cedella Marley, Beck, Rufus Wainwright, Patti Smith, and Coldplay.[46] U.S. $8 from the sale of each CD in participating Starbucks stores during 2012 is "to be given in support of Every Mother Counts".[47]

Other

In 2015 Turlington signed an open letter which the ONE Campaign had been collecting signatures for; the letter was addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.[48]

Personal life

Christy Turlington and husband Edward Burns

In 2000 Turlington met actor, director, and writer Edward Burns at a Hamptons party, and by the end of the year they were engaged. In 2002 and just months after buying a New York property together, they decided to split up. The couple reunited and were married in June 2003.[49] Despite numerous erroneous media reports, Turlington was not given away by good friend Bono. Bono attended the San Francisco wedding but Turlington said, "[Bono] was there, of course, but I gave myself away. I mean, I was 25 weeks pregnant at the time. Eddie met me halfway down the aisle."[50] Burns and Turlington have two children.[51] Turlington's sister Kelly is married to Edward's brother Brian Burns.

She has been a Roman Catholic since childhood.[52][53] She used to be a vegetarian.[54]

Yoga

Turlington is a practitioner of yoga, specifically a type of yoga known as Jivamukti.[55] Turlington Burns has practiced yoga since 1987.[56] Within an article published 15 April 2001 she stated she practiced three times a week, during the morning time.[57]

She is the author of the book Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice, [58] first published 2002, is now within a third edition (2002, 2003, 2005). The 2002 text has a foreword by Robert Thurman.[59] Turlington-Burns was involved in the editing of the January–February 2001 edition of Yoga Journal.[60]

Running

She has run four marathons during her life (April 2015), including the London marathon, her personal best is 3 hours and 46 minutes.[61] Her first marathon was run during 2011 within New York City.[62] Part of her training for the London Marathon, which she ran during 2015, was a half-marathon run, within Tanzania.[63] She trained using the Apple Watch during 2015 (prior to the public release of the watch).[64] Prior to her first marathon, Christy Turlington Burns was running distances of 3 to 5 miles a day, "a few times a week", a pattern of running typical for her for periods throughout her life.[62]

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Citations

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