Christy Turlington

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Christy Turlington's Bio: From fashion icon to activist, Christy Turlington has successfully created a diverse and multi-talented career as an entrepreneur, role model and spokesperson in the cosmetic, fashion, business and political spheres. She has graced every magazine cover from Vo gue to Time, and today she is an advocate for wellness and international aid, supporting women's health projects and relief work across the globe. Additionally, Turlington is widely recognized as a prominent voice for yoga and a healthier way of life. Christy' s long term interest in yoga has culminated in the creation of two successful businesses - nuala and Sundari, an Ayurvedic skincare line - as well as the bestselling book Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice.

After leaving the runway in 1994, Christy Turling ton returned to complete her undergraduate education at New York University with a major in comparative religion and philosophy. She then shifted her focus to achieving certain personal and entrepreneurial aspirations. After graduating, Turlington decided to m erge her avid interest in yoga and eastern practices with her extensive experience in the fashion and beauty industries.

Turlington's first endeavor was the launch of nuala, an apparel line which uses yoga as a metaphor for an active and balanced lifestyle. Christy partnered with Puma in the spring of 1999 to create the brand, which is an acronym for natural-universal-altruistic-limitless-authentic. The idea for the collection came from Christy's own desire to find clothing appropriate for her ever evolving and a ctive lifestyle. About nuala, she says, "the clothing allows me to move freely and confidently throughout my life. I call it 'meditation in motion'." With Turlington as President, nuala has experienced explosive growth since its inception.

Christy also partnered with two cosmetic industry executives in the Fall of 1999 to create Sundari. The luxury skin care venture was based on ancient Indian Ayurvedic principles which teach that the balancing of the mind, body, and spirit holds the secret to health, v itality, longevity, and beauty. In February 2003, Turlington and her two partners successfully sold Sundari to Marico Industries Ltd., one of India's fastest growing consumer products companies with almost 150 million dollars in revenues in 2002. Marico's acqu isition of the company reinforces the brand's Indian heritage and provides the infrastructure to enable Sundari to continue to flourish in the U.S. and international marketplace. Turlington and Puma also announced in 2003 the launch of Mahanuala, a new collect ion of technical yoga-wear created as a complementary diffusion line to nuala.

Christy's ongoing interest in integrating the many tenants of yoga into a healthy and rewarding lifestyle resulted in her writing the book Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice (Hy perion 2002). The book received glowing reviews and throughout 2003 and 2004 Living Yoga was published worldwide in Japanese, Korean, German, Spanish and French editions.

Christy was born and raised in Northern California. She graduated Cum Laude in the sprin g of 1999 from New York University where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. Christy currently resides in New York City with her husband and two children. … Read more