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Christy Turlington
She's often been called 'the most down-to-earth, friendliest, and nicest supermodel.'
Christy Nicole Turlington Burns is an American model, charity-founder and campaigner, and filmmaker.
She represented Calvin Klein's Eternity campaign in 1989 and again in 2014,and also represents Maybelline.
Turlington was named one of Glamour's Women of the Year in 2013,
and, in 2014, was named included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.
Turlington initially attracted fame in the late 1980s and early 1990s as a supermodel.
In 2010, Turlington founded Every Mother Counts, a non-profit organisation
devoted to making pregnancy and childbirth safe for every mother.
Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action
and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world.
It was founded after the completion of Turlington's documentary, No Woman, No Cry,
a film about 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 explores Every Mother Counts' participation in long distance running
to highlight distance from healthcare providers as barriers to women receiving quality care.
Was born on January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California,
the middle of three daughters born to Dwain Turlington,
a pilot for Pan American World Airways,
and María Elizabeth (née Parker Infante),
a flight attendant from Cojutepeque, El Salvador.
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She quit smoking after her father died from lung cancer and has since campaigned against smoking.
She made this tearful commercial against smoking.
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