Christy Turlington Biography

NAME: Christy Turlington

OCCUPATION: Model

BIRTH DATE: January 02, 1969 (Age: 42)

EDUCATION: University of California, Los Angeles, New York University

PLACE OF BIRTH: Walnut Creek, California

Model. Born January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California. Turlington's father is European-American and her mother is from El Salvador. She grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended UCLA and graduated from New York University with a degree in philosophy and literature.

Turlington's modeling career began serendipitously when a photographer asked to take her photo while she was horseback riding. The photo landed in the hands of a modeling agency and today, she is one of the country's most successful models. Best known for her work for Maybelline, Calvin Klein and Georgio Armani, she has appeared on more than 300 magazine covers.

Turlington has several accomplishments in the modeling industry, having had numerous million dollar contracts with companies like Maybelline, Chanel and Calvin Klein. Although she is known as one of the most successful supermodels in history, Christy has rejected the 'supermodel' label. She is widely respected in the fashion industry as one of the friendliest and most professional models in the business. In 1988, Christy along with Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Elle MacPherson, Claudia Schiffer, Stephanie Seymour and Tatjana Patitz became known as the first supermodels. Photographer Steven Meisel booked Christy, Naomi and Linda frequently and together they became known as the "Trinity".

In late 2000, she met actor/director/writer Edward Burns at a Hamptons party and within weeks, they were engaged.[citation needed] After postponing their October 2001 Italian wedding due to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, just blocks from where they lived in New York City, they broke up. The couple re-united and married on June 7, 2003. It was also the fifth anniversary of her father's death from lung cancer.Despite numerous erroneous media reports, Turlington was not given away by good friend Bono. Bono attended the San Francisco wedding but Christy said, "He (Bono) was there, of course, but I gave myself away. I mean, I was 25 weeks pregnant at the time. Eddie met me halfway down the aisle."Burns and Turlington have two children: a daughter Grace born October 25, 2003, and a son Finn born February 11, 2006.