Christy Turlington is the daughter of Dwain Turlington, a pilot for Pan Am, and Maria Elizabeth, a flight attendant from El Salvador. She was raised in the Roman Catholic faith of her mother along with her sisters and continued to practice the religion into adulthood.
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Turlington was discovered by local photographer, Dennie Cody while she was riding a horse in Miami, Florida where her father was a training captain for Pam.
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Turlington was one of the faces to land on one of the 14 covers of V magazine’s September 2008 issue. Each cover boasts a headshot of a famous model, either from the new crop of leading models or the supermodel era, it was lensed by duo Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodg=h Matadin.
In the 2000s, Turlington became a partner in a variety of business ventures: an ayurvedic skincare line, Sundari, and two clothing lines produced by Puma, an active women’s clothing line, and women’s yoga-wear line.
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