Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington was born in Walnut Creek, California, United States on January 2nd, 1969 and is the Model. At the age of 55, Christy Turlington biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Christy Nicole Turlington Burns (born January 2, 1969) is an American model, charity-founder, and filmmaker.
She appeared in 1989 and again in 2014, and now represents Maybelline.
Turlington was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2013, and in 2014, she was ranked on the annual Time 100 list of the world's most influential people.
Turlington was first recognized as a model in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Turlington has been dubbed "the most beautiful woman in the world" by Grace Coddington, the long-time creative director of American Vogue magazine. Every Mother Counts, a non-profit 501(c)(3) group committed to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every woman, was founded in 2010.
Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and inspires new audiences to take action and raise funds to improve maternal health services around the world.
It was established 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.
Turlington produced Every Mile, Every Mother, a documentary film that examines Every Mother Counts' involvement in long distance running to highlight the geographic distance from healthcare services as a barrier to women receiving quality services.
Early life
Turlington was born in Oakland, California, in the middle of three daughters born to Dwain Turlington, a Pan Am pilot, and Mara Elizabeth (née Parker Infante), a flight attendant from El Salvador. She was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her mother and her sisters, and the congregation continued to practice the faith into adulthood.
Dennie Cody, a local photographer, was discovered riding a horse in Miami, Florida, where her father was stationed as a training captain for Pan Am. Turlington started modeling after school, from age 14 to 16 and in the summers while attending Monte Vista High School in Danville, California. She went to New York City to model full-time and then graduated from high school. She returned to school in 1994 and graduated with a distinction in Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy 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. She continued her education at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.
Career
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. Turlington has appeared on international fashion magazines that include Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, 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. She was added on as the fourth model investor, after Elle Macpherson, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer of the now defunct Fashion Cafes.
In honor of Turlington's 40th birthday, W magazine put together a collection of notable images from her career, from runway shots from the late eighties to today. In 2008, casting agent James Scully said regarding Turlington:
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.
She featured in the Bally spring/summer 2009 campaign alongside Oriol Elcacho.
Turlington Burns closed the Autumn Winter 2019 walk for fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
In the 2000s, she has become a partner in a variety of business ventures: an ayurvedic skincare line, Sundari, and two clothing lines produced by Puma, an active women's clothing line; and a women's yoga-wear line.
She has contributed writings to Marie Claire, Yoga Journal, and Teen Vogue along with contributions to the Huffington Post. 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 Dharamshala, India.
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.