Christy Turlington

“People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.”

“I want my daughter to see that I am a professional and have commitments, but that I'm there when the family needs me, and so is their father. In some cases, more so.”

“There has been a lot of media attention around the dangers of drugs used to treat mental illness on the fetus.”

“I usually run in the morning and like to have something substantial but light to eat before and after. My go-to choices are either a banana with almond butter or a smoothie.”

“Yoga puts me in a place that is a little bit less about doing and more about being, which enables me, in fact, to do more.”

“It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death.”

“I've always loved those portraits that Alfred Stieglitz did of Georgia O'Keeffe over several years, which really convey the idea that there's not one image that can capture a woman, because we're changing all the time.”

“It is better to not even try it than to endure the ramifications of either quitting smoking or dying.”

“I was really gangly and uncoordinated as a kid. I couldn't even do a cartwheel.”

“Every year, more than 1 million children are left motherless and vulnerable because of maternal deaths, and children who have lost their mothers are up to 10 times more likely to die prematurely than those who have not.”

“Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.”