Christy Turlington Quotes

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Christy Turlington

Profession : Model

Birth : January 2, 1969

My family knows they are loved. As a mother, it is my job to let them know that they are, and it's a job I take quite seriously.

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America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.

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As a global community, we have to start thinking more seriously about whether there are limits to what our earth can bear and if we're willing to cope with the struggle for limited resources, which only seem to increase as our population does.

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I have a son and a daughter; I try to teach them equally about balance, gender, and gender equity.

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A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion.

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Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life's challenges. Everything from my studies to my father's death was eased by my practice of it.

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Walking strengthens my legs, and I swing my arms to tone my upper body.

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I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

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It turns out that cholera is new to Haiti. It was inadvertently introduced by a group of U.N. peacekeepers stationed in central Haiti who had come from South Asia where it is endemic.

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I run year-round and then ramp up my training for a race a few months before.

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Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.

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When 1970s feminism hit the United States, women demanded the right to natural childbirth and to have their husband or another support person in the delivery room. My mother gave birth to me during this time.

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Women are more likely to have a ruptured uterus if they've had multiple C-sections because there's more scar tissue.

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As a parent, I can get so frustrated. Any parent can!

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I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

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The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

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I feel like being a good model for my children is something that I do take seriously.

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Parents should be the most important examples for their children.

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In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.

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Even though Haitian women are considered the 'poto mitan' - the 'central pillars' of the family and their communities - they are often the most underserved members of already poor communities.

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