- Born
- Birth nameChristy Nicole Turlington
- Nicknames
- Turly
- Christy Burns
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Christy Nicole Turlington Burns is an American model, charity-founder and campaigner, and filmmaker. She represented Calvin Klein's Eternity campaign in 1989 and again in 2014, and also represents Maybelline. Turlington was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2013, and, in 2014, was named included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. Turlington initially attracted fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a supermodel. Grace Coddington, the long-time creative director of American Vogue magazine, has described Turlington as "the most beautiful woman in the world." In 2010, Turlington founded Every Mother Counts, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action 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 from healthcare providers as barriers to women receiving quality care- IMDb Mini Biography By: -
- SpouseEdward Burns(June 7, 2003 - present) (2 children)
- ChildrenGrace BurnsFinn Burns
- ParentsMaría Elizabeth TurlingtonDwain Turlington
- RelativesKelly Turlington(Sibling)Erin Turlington(Sibling)
- Diagnosed with emphysema in December 2000. She smoked up to a pack of cigarettes a day between the ages of 13 and 26, with a two year break.
- Is an anti-smoking activist.
- Has a dog named "MicSpic" in honor of her Hispanic and her husband's Irish backgrounds.
- Face is inspiration/model for mannequins in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
- Her father is American and her mother is from El Salvador.
- I have a beer belly.
- I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.
- You can usually tell when I'm happy by the fact that I've put on weight.
- Not all models are meant to be actors.
- After one particularly grueling season at the couture shows in Paris in the summer of '94, I decided that was it. I came home and applied to NYU.
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