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Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington
Christy Turlington (born January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek,
California) is an American supermodel best known for representing
Calvin Klein fragrances since 1987. She had also worked
on various Maybelline Cosmetic campaigns. Giorgio Armani
has used her talents to display his designs on the runway.
She is  also
co-founder of the Fashion Café.
Turlington hails from Danville, California. She is an
American with El Salvadorian roots.
An ex-smoker whose father died of lung cancer, Turlington
is an anti-smoking activist. Smoking is Ugly
She is married to the actor-filmmaker Edward Burns. They
have one child.
Author of one book, Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice
. She has been practicing Yoga for almost 15 years.
A Bio Documentry was done of her life on the Fashion
Runways by director Robert Leacock, titled Catwalk . The
Documentry was filmed in 1993 and premiered in 1996.
Christy appeared in the hit documentry about fashion
designer Issac Mizrahi, titled Unzipped and the Fashion
mockumentry film, Prêt-à-Porter by famed
director Robert Altman.
Christy started three successful business ventures. A
skincare line, Sundari . And a two clothing lines, sponsored
with Puma . Nuala , a Active Womens Clothing Line and
Mahanuala a Womens Yoga-Wear line.
Christy's modeling career accomplishments are a long
list. Numerous million dollar contracts like Maybelline,
Chanel & Calvin Klein. She is one of only a few models
to appear on the cover of 300+ magazines. Although she
is accredited of being one of the most successful Supermodels
in history, Christy has rejected the label of Supermodel
out of respect. She is also widely respected in the fashion
industry as one of the friendliest and most professional
models in he business.
Christy became apart of a band of models in the Supermodel
movement in 1988 along with Linda Evagelista, Cindy Crawford,
Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymore and Tatjana Patitz.
Christy along with Namoi and Linda were frequently booked
together and then became know as the "Trinity".
Formed by fashion photographer Steven Meisel & model
agent Gerald Marie (Linda's then Husband). The true Trinity
were Christy, Yasmin LeBon & Gail Elliott.
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