As long as I was breathing with the contractions and not pushing against them, I felt better. That idea is fundamental-to feel pain and not to resist; to go towards it. It is an incredibly spiritual practice.

The couple reunited and were married in June 2003. Turlington completed her first New York City Marathon in 2011 running with Team Every Mother Counts to raise awareness for maternal and child health. Turlington is involved in yoga and practices a style known as Jivamukti Yoga.

EMC was founded after the completion of Christy's documentary "No Woman No Cry"—a film about maternal mortality in Tanzania Bangladesh Guatemala and the United States. Christy Turlington Burns (born January 2 1969) is an American model best known for representing Calvin Klein from 1987 to 2007.