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Christy Nicole 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 was also a co-founder of the now defunct Fashion Café . Turlington hails from Danville, California . Her father was British and her mother is from El Salvador . An ex-smoker whose father died of Lung Cancer , Turlington is an anti-smoking Activist . {Link without Title} Went back to school in 1994 and graduated Cum Laude in 1999, 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 . Author of one book, Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice . She has been practicing Yoga for almost 15 years. Christy appeared in the hit documentry about fashion designer . A biographical documentary was filmed covering her life on the Fashion Runways by director Robert Leacock, titled (see {Link without Title} ) Catwalk. The documentry was filmed in 1993 and premiered in 1996.The film followed Christy and her fellow models like Naomi Campbell , Yasmin Le Bon , Kate Moss and Carla Bruni as they jetted around London, Milan, Paris and New York for the Spring Fashion Weeks. It featured rare footage of what goes on behind the scenes at big shows including fittings, parties, shopping and catfights. The film was beautifully shot in part black&white and part color. It also featured many top designers at work like a young John Galliano , Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace only one year before his death. Christy is a partner in three successful business co-ventures: An Ayurvedic skincare line, Sundari , and two clothing lines produced by Puma -- Nuala , an active women's clothing line and Mahanuala a women's yoga-wear line. Christy has a long list of accomplishments in the modeling industry. Numerous million dollar contracts like Maybelline, Chanel and Calvin Klein . She is one of only a few models to appear on the cover of nearly 1,000 magazines. Although she is known as 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 group 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). On June 7 , 2003 she married Actor - Filmmaker Edward Burns . They have two children, a daughter, Grace (b. October 25 2003 ), and a son, Finn (b. February 2006 ). EXTERNAL LINKS |
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