Daily Inspiration Quote by Christy Turlington

Turlington frames yoga less like a trendy accessory and more like an apprenticeship in discipline, and that’s the tell. She doesn’t lead with enlightenment or flexibility; she leads with age, influence, and routine. “About 18” lands as a threshold detail: the moment when your body is at its most marketable and your identity is still being negotiated. For a model in the late ’80s and early ’90s, that’s also when the job starts to demand not just aesthetics but an almost monastic management of energy, appetite, nerves, and attention.

The friend is doing a lot of work here. By crediting someone “incredibly disciplined” who “meditated all the time,” Turlington sidesteps the usual celebrity self-mythology (I discovered my truth!) and replaces it with a more believable origin story: aspiration by proximity. The subtext is social contagion, but of the productive kind. Yoga becomes a technology of self-control you learn from watching someone else live it convincingly.

There’s also a quiet cultural timestamp. Yoga in that era wasn’t yet the mass-market lifestyle brand it would become; it carried more countercultural residue and less boutique polish. Turlington’s recollection signals early adoption without bragging about it. The intent feels pragmatic: discipline as refuge, meditation as a way to stay intact inside an industry built on scrutiny. Even in a short anecdote, she’s positioning wellness not as indulgence, but as survival training.