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Its a milestone weighing heavily on Turlington Burnss mind.
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To know that I’ve been a part of it for as long as I have feels incredibly rewarding.
I’m in that place of wanting to move from founder-led to founder-inspired or founder-created.
Our daughter will sometimes be like, Are you going to take a break?
It has become the focus of her life.
She laughs when asked if her kids ever really knew about her life as a model.
When they were both little, I didn’t really model very much, she says.
I still don’t.
Its pretty rare when I do.
The fact that I could talk about I have a test tomorrow…she really liked that.
Turlington Burns recalls a funny night when she came home from a job with a full face of makeup.
I don’t really wear makeup, she says.
Aside from the continued occasional foray into selling lipstick, Turlington Burnss focus is squarely on her foundation.
Glamour: Whats the best piece of work advice that you would give to other women?
Christy Turlington Burns:Cultivating meaningful relationships.
Not in any kind of game way, but in a true way.
The more you put in at the very beginning, I think, the possibilities are that much greater.
You just never know where anyone is going to move on to or be.
Whats the hardest lesson youve learned as a female founder?
I know a lot of founders, but they’re not in the nonprofit space.
So I would say it can be kind of lonely.
I feel very much like a parent, a single parent.
My organization is very much like my third child, and I don’t say that lightly at all.
I’m in that place of wanting to move from founder-led to founder-inspired or founder-created.
Did you ever find that people made assumptions about you because youd come from the modeling industry?
Did you feel like you had to reeducate people?
Both, I would say.
I know that people are going to be somewhat distracted, because that’s just how our brains work.
Around at that time there really was very little known about the impacts of tobacco on women’s bodies.
How did your work with Every Mother Counts start?
I was getting closer to the time when I was deciding whether to become a mother.
That was not the vision.
I was not that student when I was in middle school or high school.
If you didn’t really move me, I was just not that inspired.
It was the biggest confidence building act of my life.
What was your childhood dream job?
I had some dreams around being an architect at one point.
What was the last great book you read?
I am so bad right now at finishing books, which is so awful.
It sounds like she’s just speaking and you get a real feel for her.
What does your typical day look like?
He needs to be literally led to the door even in 11th grade!
Once he’s out the door, I start my work day.
I drink a cup of coffee while I’m going through early emails.
And then I’m pretty much in Zooms back to back, all day long.
Because I’m a founder, I am catching up after work hours when the zooms are over.
On the weekend it’s normal for both of us to work.
Our daughter will sometimes be like, Are you going to take a break?
Whats your biggest vice?
Whats your go-to thank you gift?
I used to give acupuncture, but then I learned that a lot of people are fearful of acupuncture!
Whats your proudest achievement since founding Every Mother Counts?
I heard this about somebody else’s organization at one time.
It’s one thing to start a thing, but another to stick with it.
I am only one voice and one person who’s a part of that bigger effort.
Whats the best parenting advice youve given a mom?
All the good advice is really cliched, but I think it’s that thing of enjoying every age.
