Do you feel like you've been underestimated along the way? As I've gotten older, I care less about that.

I guess early on, you know, it's, it is hard when you're known as, um, as doing something to make a change.

Yeah. But every time that I ventured outside of what that is and the fact that it was a goal of

mine to not be put into any kind of corner box and then to realize like, no, it was more a matter

of like how I felt about it and what was my own perception or the, you know, once I convinced

myself that, no, I can I can try this and I can try that and I, I don't need to be stuck.

I don't need to let anybody else, and I don't need to do that to myself. I think that was really

helpful. From ABC, it's no limits. I'm Rebecca Jarvis, and each week we're talking to the most

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top of their game, trying to demystify success and what it really takes to get there, and all

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On today's episode, she's been recognized as one of times 100 most influential people. Christy Turlington Burns became one of the most famous models in the

world. She started her career as a young teenager. She's received international acclaim.

But today she's the CEO and founder of the

maternal health organization Every Mother Counts, where she's made it her mission to make

pregnancy and childbirth safe for women everywhere around the world.

And the reason I wanted to have her with us today is to talk about taking that passion,

something that is deeply a part of your personal mission statement,

and making something of it, starting a movement around it.

Also, how do you keep from getting stuck in a box of expectations?

She clearly has reinvented herself or at least found ways to break out of what people might have expected of her as a model.

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