Christy Turlington: A Prime Example Face of Today's Smart Sensuality Woman

Christy Turlington, Vogue December 2002 by Steven Klein

How many incredibly beautiful women say about themselves: “Oh, my face is a dime a dozen in many parts of the world”?

I can’t imagine Christy Turlington telling the world that Michelle Obama isn’t a great beauty … like she is. This extraordinarily beautiful daughter of a Salvadoran mother, Christy’s genes are a fusion of Latina and Anglo. Add a longtime relationship with yoga, and we see a physically-inspiring, yet approachable beauty.

Vogue magazine continues to stretch its Cultural Creative wings, recognizing that the days of Modern values are numbered, and Smart Sensuality women carry significant open-to-buys on their credit cards.

The Smart Sensuality woman has brains, sex appeal and a global empathy heart combined with an appreciation of style. She organizes and acts, rather than only writing checks for important causes.

In the August 2009 ‘Age’ issue, Vogue profiles Christy Turlington from her early days as a supermodel and member of three-party triumverate of Turlington, Campbell and Evangelista ‘it’ girls to her present day life.

Christy has long been a Smart Sensuality woman, rejecting Modern values of “she who has the most stilletos in her closet wins” to Cultural Creative pursuits of a richer, deeper, more meaningful life.

Turlington’s current life spans a wide range of personal commitments: wife to Edward Burns, mother of two children, financier of the upcoming documentary “No Woman, No Cry”, a masters-degree student in public health at Columbia University, and devoted activist on the subject of maternal health.

Vogue writes: Turlington is passionate about the endless complexities of public health. “Now I’m 40 and getting this degree, I might be on the cusp of the career that I always wanted. Maternal deaths mean there are very serious things going on under the radar about women’s status. There is aid for children, but without mothers, what are their chances of survival? International health-care reform is moving toward the American model, but it’s broken. The United States ranks forty-first in maternal health. I think one of the reasons we’re doing more Cesarean sections here is because that means more people in the delivery room, and the hospital can charge you for four days instead of two. It’s all for profit and not about taking care of people.”

Christy Turlington by Alex Majoli & Pamela Hanson, Vogue US August 2009

Turlington is no ‘saint’ when it comes to food and lifestyle. She eats meat and calls pale vegetarians “veals”. Not only is Christy determined to create the life she wants, she’s started over more than once, walking away not only from modeling at 25, but her yoga-clothing Nuala relationship with Puma and her natural beauty line, Sundari.