Christy Turlington Quotes
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Parents should be the most important examples for their children.
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May is the month when people focus on mothers more than any other time of year.
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When I was seven months pregnant with my son, my mother and I took a trip to El Salvador, where she's from. Frequent visits with her to see my extended family have taught me how different life can be if you are born into poverty.
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It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.
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I've always eaten well and have a balanced diet.
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I have good skin, but it's dry - drier than you would think, considering I have Latin skin. It's fairly transparent, too, so I'm constantly trying to give it nourishment and moisture, but nothing really holds.
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I just love being outside.
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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 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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America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.
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When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
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I think mothers are so important. I mean, it seems like such an obvious thing to say, but I think we don't really express that enough, apart from one day a year. So I think we need to come together and celebrate us every day.
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I would be very proud to have influenced anyone that I know or don't know to quit smoking.
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Not every model wants to be an actress.
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After delivering my daughter in 2003, I endured and survived a hemorrhage, the leading childbirth-related complication that takes the lives of thousands of other mothers all over the world.
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Like so many new moms, I felt anxiety over the impending birth of my daughter. However, most of the anxiety I felt was around the idea of raising a child. I wasn't focused on potential risks to my health or hers that could occur during the actual birth.
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I was never directly pressured by peers, but by surrounding myself with others who were experimenting with smoking provided a certain false comfort.
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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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In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.
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Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.
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Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
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I really wanted to share with people the day-to-day joys that yoga can bring into one's life-not just the physical aspects.
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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.
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I have healed myself through sharing my birth story as well as others' stories in my film 'No Woman, No Cry,' and in various writings and talks about maternal health.