Christy Turlington

Model

Christy Turlington is a 5'10" model best known for looking gorgeous and pensive in a long-running series of Calvin Klein ads. The ads made her an international celebrity and helped put her in the top rank of 1990s high-fashion models, alongside names like Cindy Crawford and Linda Evangelista. Turlington also earned a bachelor's degree in comparative religtion from New York University in 1999, and is known for her interests in yoga, spirituality, and healthy living. She created the skin care company Sundari in 1999 and published the yoga how-to book Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice in 2002.

Extra credit: Turlington married filmmaker Edward Burns in 2002. Their daughter Grace was born in 2003, and a son, Finn, was born in 2006... Turlington announced in 2000 that she had been diagnosed with early-stage emphysema, the result of a former cigarette habit; she became an anti-smoking spokeswoman for the Center for Disease Control.

Other supermodels of Turlington's era include and Tyra Banks and Claudia Schiffer.