Christie Brinkley

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Christie Brinkley
Tribeca Film Festival
Born
Christie Lee Hudson

(1954-02-02) February 2, 1954 (age 70)
Monroe, Michigan, U.S.
Occupations
  • Model
  • actress
  • entrepreneur
Years active1973–present
Height5 ft 9+1⁄2 in (177 cm)[1]
Spouses
  • François Allaux
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    ​
    (m. 1973; div. 1981)​
  • ​
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    (m. 1985; div. 1994)​
  • Richard Taubman
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    (m. 1994; div. 1995)​
  • Peter Cook
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    (m. 1996; div. 2008)​
Children3, including Alexa Ray Joel and Sailor Brinkley Cook

Christie Lee Brinkley (née Hudson; born February 2, 1954) is an American model.[2] Brinkley appeared on an unprecedented three consecutive covers of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues in 1979, 1980, and 1981. She spent 25 years as the face of CoverGirl,[3] has appeared on over 500 magazine covers, and has signed contracts with major brands; both fashion and non-fashion.

Brinkley went on to work as an actress,

Men's Health have named Brinkley one of the most attractive women of all time.[4]

Early life

Brinkley was born Christie Lee Hudson in

Paul Revere Junior High School and attended Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles from 9th to 12th grade.[6] After graduation in 1972, she moved to Paris to study art.[5][7]

Career

Career beginnings

Brinkley was discovered in 1973 by American photographer

Mike Reinhardt[9] who called Eileen Ford and told her about Brinkley,[6] she returned to California, and by the end of a lunch meeting with Nina Blanchard (Eileen Ford affiliate in Los Angeles) she had been booked for three national ad campaigns.[7]

Breakthrough and continued success

Multiple appearances on the cover of Glamour soon followed, along with a record 25-year contract with cosmetics brand CoverGirl,[3] one of the longest modeling contracts in history.[7][10] In 2005, CoverGirl again signed Brinkley, using her in ads in magazines and TV commercials for mature skin products.[11] In 1989, Brinkley was, along with Cheryl Tiegs and Beverly Johnson, one of the three models featured as dolls produced by Matchbox Toys called The Real Model Collection.

External images
image icon Brinkley's Sports Illustrated
Swimsuit Issue cover from February 9, 1981
image icon Brinkley's Life magazine cover from February 1982

Brinkley appeared on three consecutive Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covers (1979,[12] 1980,[13] and 1981[14]) – the first time that had happened – and appeared in the publication's annual swimsuit issues and television specials for years to follow.[15] Brinkley was featured exclusively in the first Sports Illustrated Calendar and also released two of her own calendars.[16] In 2005, Brinkley was featured in the special Sports Illustrated 40th Anniversary Issue's Hall of Fame, celebrating the most revered figures in the magazine's history and again in 2014, in the 50th Anniversary The Legends.[17]

As an editorial model, Brinkley has appeared on over 500 magazine covers,

Yardley of London, Halston, Vogue Patterns, Gottex and Black Velvet, among others.[16][18] Brinkley has been photographed in six continents in more than 30 countries.[3]

Acting and television appearances

Brinkley in 2000

Brinkley played her first acting role in the 1983 film

Dennis Michael Lynch. The film premiered at the 2010 Hamptons International Film Festival
.

Brinkley's appearance on

Today Show in 1983 in a four-part segment featuring beauty tips and, in 1992, began her own television series Living in the 90s — With Christie Brinkley, a daily half-hour show on CNN.[22]

Brinkley made further television appearances, including Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue television specials

Dancing With the Stars alumnus Gilles Marini during the show.[24]

On April 8, 2011, in New York, Brinkley made her stage debut as Roxie Hart in the long-running musical Chicago. In August, she completed a one-month engagement in the London's production at Cambridge Theatre and reprised the role on Broadway and continued with 182 total performances with the National Touring Company of Chicago in cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, Boston and Hartford.[25] In April 2019, Brinkley reprised the Roxie Hart role in Chicago at the Venetian Theatre at The Venetian Las Vegas.

On August 5, 2019, it was reported by

season seven of The Masked Singer as "Lemur" of Team Cuddly.[30]

Businesses

Since 1997, Brinkley has appeared with

fitness equipment.[31][18] In 2008, Brinkley and Dr. Carlon Colker promoted National Family Fitness Day with Xbox 360 at the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.[32] Brinkley promotes Christie Brinkley Authentic Skin Care, a line of beauty products,[33] Hair2Wear,[34] a line of hair extensions, Bellissima Prosecco, an organic sparkling wine label[35] and Christie Brinkley Eyewear, an eyeglasses eyewear.[36] Her financial holdings in 2019 were worth an estimated US$80 million,[4] primarily as the owner of real estate mainly in the Hamptons.[37]

Other work

In 1983, Brinkley wrote and illustrated a book on health and beauty, Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book, which topped

triple platinum album River of Dreams. For this, Rolling Stone awarded her the honor of "Best album cover of the year".[11] Brinkley has designed clothing patterns for Simplicity Pattern[22] and in March 1994 helped design, for brand Nouveau Eyewear, her line of prescription glasses and sunglasses called Christie Brinkley Perspectives with worldwide sales.[16][18] In Spring 1998 she released her own signature fragrance, Believe.[7] Her jewelry collection is manufactured by Swank.[16]

Public image

Modeling a dress by Calvin Klein at the 2005 Red Dress Collection fashion show in New York's Bryant Park

In 1991, Brinkley was considered to have an ideal, all-American look with her blonde hair, blue eyes, slim figure, and soft features, when Allure first conducted a survey taking the pulse of the average American (men and women) searching for their beauty perceptions and preferences.[38]

In 1998,

Men's Health named her one of the "100 Hottest Women of All-Time", ranking her at No. 16.[41] Pop-topia.com named her No. 1 on their list of "10 Hottest Hollywood Women In Their 50s" in 2013.[42]

Personal life

In 1973, Brinkley married French artist Jean-François Allaux; the marriage ended in 1981 without children.

Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. The two met at Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Brinkley appeared.[43] Chandon died a year later in a crash at a private pre-season practice session car race.[44][45]

Her second marriage was in 1985 to musician Billy Joel. The two had met in 1983 on the Island of St Barts, in the Caribbean, and were married on March 23, 1985, on a yacht on the Hudson River; it was also Joel's second marriage. Guests included singer Paul Simon and members of the band Stray Cats.[46] The marriage ended in August 1994;[47] they had one child, Alexa Ray Joel, born December 29, 1985.[48] Brinkley and Billy Joel remain close friends.[43]

In 1994, Brinkley was introduced to real estate developer Richard Taubman by a mutual friend. He proposed in May 1994 while she and Billy Joel were still married. She married Taubman on December 22, 1994, in Telluride, Colorado, near the area where they were both in a helicopter crash on April 1, 1994.[49][50] Brinkley was 40 and Taubman was 46. She announced at their wedding that they were expecting a baby boy. The marriage ended in 1995 with one son,[43] Jack Paris Brinkley, born June 2, 1995.[51] In 1994, Brinkley survived a helicopter crash that occurred during a ski trip in Telluride, Colorado.[52] As a result, she suffered years of hip pain, culminating in a full hip replacement in 2021.[53]

Brinkley's fourth marriage was in 1996, to architect Peter Halsey Cook. Cook and Brinkley met in 1979 when he was modeling.[54] They were later reintroduced by a mutual friend and announced their engagement in August 1996.[54] They married on September 21, 1996.[55] They had one child, daughter Sailor Lee Brinkley Cook, born July 2, 1998[56] (who has also became a model).[57][58][59] Brinkley's representative announced in July 2006 that Brinkley and Peter Cook planned to separate.[60] The couple reached a settlement in July 2008; accounts differ as to whether divorce was final on September 12, 2008,[61] or October 3, 2008.[55] In September 2015, it was widely reported that John Mellencamp was in a new relationship with Brinkley.[62] In August 2016, the couple announced their separation after almost a year of dating.[63]

Interests

USO show in the Eagle Sports Complex at Tuzla Air Base
, Bosnia and Herzegovina (December 22, 1999)

Brinkley lives on

NHL.com and filming a commercial.[66] Brinkley helped found a club for cutting, an equestrian sport in which a rider has two and a half minutes to cut as many cattle from a herd as they can.[22]

Since 1998, Brinkley has given nearly $1,000,000 to organizations and candidates of the

Moveon.org.[64] In the New York delegation, Brinkley served as a delegate on the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.[67] She has also been involved in anti-nuclear activities and campaigned against the restarting of the High Flux Beam Reactor (HFBR) located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.[68][69]

Brinkley supports animal rights, most notably through the organization PETA,[11] having previously spoken out against the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.[70] She became a vegetarian when she was 13 years old and then got her entire family to become vegetarians.[71][72]

Awards and achievements

USO

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
1983 National Lampoon's Vacation The Girl in the Ferrari
1989 The All New Mickey Mouse Club Self Episode: "Guest Day"
1994 Mad About You Christie Brinkley Episode: "Virtual Reality"
1997 Vegas Vacation Woman in Ferrari
2009 Ugly Betty Penelope Graybridge Episode: "The Bahamas Triangle"
2011 Jack and Jill Christie Brinkley
2012-2015 Parks and Recreation Gayle Gergich 4 episodes
2015 Donny! Christie Brinkley Episode: "Foxy at Fifty!"
2017 Nightcap Christie Brinkley 2 episodes
2019 The Goldbergs Aleah Welsh Episode: "Vacation"

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