Town & Country celebrates their 170th Anniversary issue and catches up with former supermodel Christy Turlington and what’s she been up to lately, like her very important work with her non-profit organization Every Mother Counts (EMC).
Also, the mom of two married to Ed Burns, shares her thoughts on plastic surgery, the fashion world and unhealthy body images, —all while balancing a birthday cake in a car, and posing in couture with a horse.
HERE’S SOME:
On her work for her non-profit organization Every Mother Counts (EMC):
“If anyone calls me a philanthropist, I say I’m not. I’m much more active than what I think of as a philanthropist. I want to make connections, figure things out, and work toward solutions.”
On the media being tough on the fashion world and the idea that it is responsible for projecting unhealthy body images:
“I don’t think people get eating disorders by looking at magazines. I think there’s a much deeper set of issues around a lack of power and control, or something happening in the family. As an active model and a mother of a 12-year-old girl, I would not blame a magazine or fashion company for that. People have to get over the idea that realism is being projected here.”
On if she has, or would ever have, Botox or plastic surgery:
“Never. For years these things didn’t even exist: collagen, fat cells, the crazy stuff people do I cannot imagine. First of all, I have no time. Second of all, I don’t think it looks good. Maybe I would think differently if I thought it looked good and it didn’t hurt and it didn’t send bad messages to young people. But I’ve never seen someone who I’ve been like, ‘Oh, that’s a good idea.’ It looks freaky to me.”
On approaching 50 and the fear of aging:
“I wasn’t worried about aging at 16, and I’m not worried about it at 47. It’s a fact of life, and it’s good that people close to me see that I’m relaxed and okay about aging, not neurotic or worried about it. To my kids I’ll be the mom who barely shaves her legs, who doesn’t color her hair. Being who you are, being your best self, has nothing to do with what you look like.”
http://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a7628/christy-turlington-interview/