Christy Nicole Turlington Burns is a multifaceted American individual, renowned for her illustrious career as a model, charity-founder, campaigner, and filmmaker. Her extensive portfolio includes representing iconic brands such as Calvin Klein, with whom she has collaborated on multiple occasions, and Maybelline.
Turlington's remarkable achievements have garnered her numerous accolades, including being named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2013, and inclusion on the prestigious Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world in 2014.
As a supermodel, Turlington initially rose to fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s, earning the admiration of renowned industry professionals, including Grace Coddington, the long-time creative director of American Vogue magazine, who has referred to her as "the most beautiful woman in the world."
In 2010, Turlington founded Every Mother Counts, a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring pregnancy and childbirth safety for every mother. This remarkable initiative, which has since become a global movement, informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action and raise funds that support maternal health programs worldwide.
Turlington's dedication to this cause was further exemplified through the production of her documentary, No Woman, No Cry, which explores the experiences of 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 highlights the challenges faced by women in accessing quality healthcare due to distance from healthcare providers, emphasizing the importance of Every Mother Counts' mission.
Through her tireless efforts, Christy Nicole Turlington Burns has cemented her status as a trailblazing figure in the world of fashion, philanthropy, and filmmaking, inspiring countless individuals to join her in her quest to create a safer, healthier world for mothers and their families.
