Christy Turlington Uses Her Brainpower Activism and Beauty for All Women AOC Eye

Supermodel Christy Turlington graced the pages of British Vogue’s July 2000 issue, lensed in ‘Being Christy’ by Regan Cameron [IG]. / Hair by Ken O’Rourke; makeup by Pati Dubroff

Turlington spoke to the many projects that interested her, some existing only as goals at the time. The supermdel returned to school at NYU in 1994, graduating cum laude in 1999 from the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her focus of study at NYU was Comparative Religion and Eastern Philosophy.

The super met her future husband — actor and director Ed Burns — although she has no memory of the event. Christy was world-famous at the time and Burns was a production assistant.

"I was [working] at a television show [Entertainment Tonight], and we interviewed Christy back when I was just a lowly PA," Burns told Huffington Post. "I had to get her a cup of coffee. Fortunately, she was very nice."

Turlington and Burns formally met in 2000 at a charity event, and the sparks flew. The couple became engaged six months later, but postponed their October 2001 scheduled wedding, after the devastating 9/11 attacks in New York City, Washington, DC and Shanksville, Pa.

In 2010, Christy Turlington completed and debuted her documentary film, “No Woman, No Cry,” about the global state of maternal health, at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. On Mother’s Day 2011, Christy showed the film on the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN).

Concurrently, Turlington launched Every Mother Counts, an advocacy and mobilization campaign to increase education and support for maternal mortality reduction globally. In a sad state of affairs Every Mother Counts has been forced to maintain a focus on the deathly issue of maternal mortality in America. Christy’s focus has increasingly become local as well as global.