Christy Turlington

**Christy Nicole Turlington Burns** (born January 2, 1969) 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*Template:'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."

## 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. She was presented on the November 1999 Millennium cover of American *Vogue* as one of the "Modern Muses". 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.

### *No Woman, No Cry*

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

## Personal life

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. Despite numerous erroneous media reports, Turlington was not given away by her 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."

Burns and Turlington have two children, Grace (born 2003) and Finn (born 2006). Turlington's sister Kelly is married to Edward's brother Brian Burns.

Turlington began smoking at 13 and was smoking a pack a day by age 16. At age 26, she quit smoking. In 2000 at age 31, when undergoing a lung scan to raise awareness about current technology, she was diagnosed with early-stage emphysema.

### *"Every Mother Counts"*

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.

## References

1. ↑ Stephanie Chan. Christy Turlington Burns, Ed Burns in Calvin Klein Eternity Campaign – Hollywood Reporter. *The Hollywood Reporter*.
2. ↑ Glamour Magazine. Models and Philanthropists Liya Kebede and Christy Turlington Burns Are Glamour Women of the Year for 2013: Glamour.com. *Glamour*.
3. ↑ Christy Turlington Burns. *Time*.
4. ↑ Tiffany & Co. — “Some Style is Legendary” Documentary (en). Retrieved on 2019-10-01.
5. ↑ Turlington Diagnosed With Emphysema - [1] published by ABC News December 3, 2000 [Retrieved November 6, 2017]
6. ↑ Christy Turlington on Her New Movie Every Mile, Every Mother. *Vogue*. Archived from the original on July 7, 2014.

## External links

* Christy Turlington article at *Wikipedia*
* Christy Turlington links at FreeOnes
* Christy Turlington at Babepedia
* Christy Turlington at Fashion Model Directory
* http://www.christyturlington.com/ Official website