Awards & Winners

Christy Turlington Burns

Date of Birth 02-January-1969
Place of Birth Walnut Creek
(Contra Costa County, United States of America, California)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Christy Nicole Turlington, christy_turlington, Christy Turlington, Turly, Christy Burns, Christy Turlington-Burns, 크리스티 터링턴, Christy Turlington Burns, Christy Turlington-Burns, Turlington, Christy, Christy Turlingtonová
Profession Fashion Model, Activist, Businessperson, Author
Christy Turlington Burns is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007. She has worked on dozens of modeling contracts with companies including Maybelline Cosmetics and Versace. Turlington starred in her fashion documentary Catwalk and Isaac Mizrahi's Unzipped. She was added on as the fourth model investor, after Elle Macpherson, Naomi Campbell and Claudia Schiffer of the now defunct Fashion Cafes. Christy Turlington is credited for introducing the navel piercing into popular culture by showing her navel piercing at a fashion show in London in 1993. In 2010, Turlington founded "Every Mother Counts", a campaign to end preventable deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth around the world. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women worldwide.EMC was founded after the completion of Christy's documentary, No Woman, No Cry, a film about maternal mortality in Tanzania, Bangladesh, Guatemala, and the United States.

Awards by Christy Turlington Burns

Check all the awards nominated and won by Christy Turlington Burns.

2013


The US Glamour Award for Woman of the Year
(The Monster Talent, The Girls' Hero, The Fashion Wizard, The Gladiator, The Role Models with Christy Turlington Burns, The Role Models with Liya Kebede, The Chairman of Cool, The Game Changer, The Protector, The Advocate)