Christy Turlington Burns Supermodel, mom, marathoner
Her training, race plan, and the cause she’s running for in Boston
hristy Turlington Burns is a mother, social entrepreneur, model and founder of the maternal health organization Every Mother Counts. She’s also a dedicated runner.
In 2011, the face that has graced so many magazines lined up for the New York City Marathon. Turlington Burns can add running theBoston Marathon to her accomplishments. She qualified with a time of 3:46 at the London Marathon. She completed Boston in 4:09:27.
Turlington Burns has been recognized as one of Time’s 100 Most Inf luential People and Glamour’s Woman of the Year. Aside from running, founding Every Mother Counts and her modelling career, she’s also a member of the Harvard Medical School Global Health Council and on the advisory board of New York University’s nursing school. She holds a B.A. from nyu and has studied public health at Columbia University. She also ran the Boston Marathon for the cause she founded.
Having endured a childbirth complication herself, Turlington Burns was compelled to direct the documentary, No Woman, No Cry about maternal health challenges that impact the lives of millions of women around the world.
Every Mother Counts supports programs that improve access to comprehensive maternity care in Haiti, Uganda, Bangladesh, India, Tanzania, Guatemala and the United States. Since 2012, Every Mother Counts has impacted over 400,000 lives by linking women to proper care during and after pregnancy and childbirth.
A four-time marathon finisher, Christy resides in New York City where she lives with her husband, filmmaker Edward Burns, and their two children. We had the chance to ask her about her running and her work.
CLast winter, I started training for the London Marathon and just before heading over, the thought of qualifying for Boston crossed my mind. As soon as I finished and shared my time (3:46 – PR for me), I heard from people that I had qualified for Boston and that’s when I decided I would run it this year.