Christy Turlington Burns's Wants You to Listen to Her Best Career Advice

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, the maternal healthcare nonprofit organization she founded in 2010—and which she describes as “very much like my third child”—has reached an age that in many cultures marks the cusp of adulthood, the beginning of a life being built separate to their parents.

It’s a milestone weighing heavily on Turlington Burns’s mind. “It's one thing to start a thing but another to stick with it, given how hard it is,” she says. “To know that I've been a part of it for as long as I have feels incredibly rewarding.”She continues, “I've always said there's no exit strategy, and yet there has to be at some point in terms of making space for others to bring their perspectives.

I'm in that place of wanting to move from founder-led to founder-inspired or founder-created.”Turlington Burns is speaking to me from her home in New York that she shares with her husband, filmmaker Ed Burns, and her two children, amid a schedule packed with work Zoom meetings late into the day. “Our daughter will sometimes be like, are you going to take a break?” she quips.This day-to-day grind of running a nonprofit and campaigning for better maternal care around the world feels like a lifetime away from Turlington Burns’s first act.

Those of us who grew up in the ‘80s and ’90s remember Turlington as the face of fashion, not activism. As part of the original supermodel set that included Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Claudia Schiffer, and Linda Evangelista, you’d have been hard-pressed to find a luxury advertising campaign that didn’t feature her.