Nonetheless, Turlington appreciates knowing she has a new, enthusiastic date for the arts. She wryly points out that—in keeping with the bait-and-switch tactics of husbands everywhere—director and actor Edward Burns used to join her at the opera "all the time&mdashall the time!" when they were dating ... but hasn't gone once since they tied the knot in 2003.
The New York City Ballet is just one of Turlington's many causes—she's worked for tobacco-cessation campaigns for the American Lung Foundation (she herself struggled to quit smoking, and she lost her father, a longtime smoker, to lung cancer in 1997), Care, the One Foundation, and Project (RED), the latter two founded by one of her closest friends, Bono.
Contrary to many reports, the U2 frontman and activist did not give her away at her wedding. "He was there, of course, but I gave myself away. I mean, I was 25 weeks pregnant at the time," she says, acknowledging that her gown, designed by John Galliano, offered the relative disguise of an Empire waist. "Eddie met me halfway down the aisle." (At the reception, she recounts with bemused indignation, one of Burns's friends took him aside and said, "It's so nice that Christy got a boob job for you for a wedding gift.")
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