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Christy Turlington Wikipedia

Image:Christyturlington.jpg|thumb|right|Christy Turlington on the cover of TIME
Christy Turlington (born January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California) is an United States|American supermodel best known for representing Calvin Klein fragrances since 1987. She had also worked on various Maybelline|Maybelline Cosmetic campaigns. Giorgio Armani has used her talents to display his designs on the runway. She is also co-founder of the Fashion Caf??.

Turlington hails from Danville, California. Her father is European-American and her mother from El Salvador.

An ex-smoker whose father died of lung cancer, Turlington is an anti-smoking activist. http://www.smokingisugly.com Smoking is Ugly

She is married to the actor-filmmaker Edward Burns. They have one child, a daughter Grace and they are currently expecting their second child .

Author of one book, http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786868066/qid=1115654073/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/103-9941295-1118235?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice. She has been practicing Yoga for almost 15 years.

A biographical documentary was filmed covering her life on the Fashion Runways by director Robert Leacock, titled http://imdb.com/title/tt0112646/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnxteD0yMHxsbT01MDB8dHQ9b258ZmI9dXxwbj0wfHE9Y2F0d2Fsa3xodG1sPTF8bm09b24_;fc=2;ft=21;fm=1 Catwalk. The Documentry was filmed in 1993 and premiered in 1996.

Christy appeared in the hit documentry about fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi, titled http://imdb.com/title/tt0114805/ Unzipped and the Fashion mockumentry film, http://imdb.com/title/tt0110907/ Pr??t-??-Porter by famed director Robert Altman.

Christy started three successful business ventures. A skincare line, http://sundari.com/ Sundari. And a two clothing lines, sponsored with http://puma.com/pindex.jsp Puma. http://nuala.puma.com/ Nuala, an active women's clothing Line and http://www.mahanuala.com/ Mahanuala a women's 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 the business.

Christy became a part of a band of models in the Supermodel movement in 1988 along with Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour and Tatjana Patitz. Christy along with Naomi and Linda were frequently booked together and then became known as the "Trinity". Formed by fashion photographer Steven Meisel & model agent Gerald Marie (Linda's then-husband).

Last Modified:   2005-12-15