The family lived in Malibu and the children loved to perform little shows for their parents, who were an eager audience.
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Her parents, Marjorie Bowling and Herbert Hudson, divorced soon after moving to Los Angeles and her mother married successful TV writer Don Brinkley, who adopted both Christie and her brother Gregory. It’s easy to be charmed by her sweet and bubbly façade but the real woman within seems to be someone who is opinionated, culturally voracious and strong.īrinkley is considered the ultimate California girl but she started off life in Michigan. She’s wearing a Calvin Klein double-breasted tweed suit, one of her favorite designers, and even though she comes across as girly, there’s something about her that means business too. She opts for a pizza with tomatoes, capers, and arugula instead. “Oh right, it’s fancy-fancy,” she trills and wrinkles her ski-jump nose. When she is reminded that the grilled cheese has brie and apple in it, she changes her mind. She orders mint tea with honey and a grilled cheese sandwich.
The hotel was her home from home – she lives in the Hamptons – while she was appearing in Chicago on Broadway in 2012. She’s reserved a seat for us in front of the fire and clearly knows the Irish maître-d from repeat visits. She, in return, seems as accustomed to being an icon as one can be. Judging by the frequent glances of the Uptown ladies and businessmen in expensive-looking suits having lunch, her presence still generates excitement. And then there’s her own brand of organic prosecco (including a zero-sugar version), called Bellissima, which is becoming one of the fastest rising brands of prosecco in America.Īt 64, she’s instantly recognizable, sitting in the library of the chic Lowell Hotel in New York – almost unfairly so, as captivating now as she was in her twenties, with her bright blue almond-shaped eyes and trademark long blond hair and bangs, a look she has stuck to her entire career. Her book of beauty secrets, Timeless Beauty, was a bestseller and came out in paperback this year, and her cosmetic line, Christie Brinkley Authentic Skincare, expanded into makeup last year. She was the face of CoverGirl cosmetics for a record-breaking 25 years and was a recurring character as the hot wife of the homely Jerry on the sitcom Parks and Recreation. It was a return of sorts, though Brinkley has never really faded from the spotlight.
She most recently featured on their cover in 2016, alongside her daughters, Alexa Ray Joel (the only child from her marriage to Joel), now 32, and Sailor Brinkley Cook, 19, from her marriage to property developer Peter Cook. She began modeling in her late teens and has since appeared on at least 500 magazine covers, including most famously as Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Girl, three years in a row, wearing high-cut bikinis and maillots that wouldn’t look out of place on the beach today. “‘Christie,’ he says to me, ‘come and meet the king.’”īrinkley is of course the original Uptown Girl, forever immortalized in the public’s consciousness as the awkwardly dancing supermodel in Billy Joel’s (the man who would become her husband but who she is no longer married to) 1983 music video. So I say, ‘Excuse me?’ and he goes, ‘You are! You’re the Uptown Girl!’” It was the leader of the opposition party he was a huge fan. “It was such a spectacle of color and art, and all of a sudden I hear, ‘Excuse me, are you the Uptown Girl?’ I look around and see this very tall man staring at me.
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The pair trekked through the Himalayas before making their way back to the capital, Thimphu, where the public coronation of the fifth Dragon King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, was in full swing. A few years ago, Christie Brinkley went to Bhutan with her son, Jack.
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