Christie Brinkley is such a hustler. She makes me roll my eyes a lot, but there’s something admirable about the way that she just continues to get press for the same thing – her looks and her body. She’s a model, she never really changed up her game, and it’s still working for her. She’s looking a bit puffy lately in the face, for lack of a better word, and by that I mean she’s had too many fillers, but it will settle and in photos it’s not as easy to notice as in motion. Anyway Christie is one of the many stars in Gap’s new Bridging The Gap commercial, which is meant to celebrate diversity and includes Christie as the sole older person. It also has Wiz Khalifa, Alek Wek, and Priyanka Chopra and features everyone dancing around to Boney M’s “Sunny.” You can watch the video here. As part of promotion for her commercial, Christie told People that she regularly tools around her house and garden in a bikini because of course she does.
“I always put a bikini on and say, ‘Oh, it is just to wear around the house. I am not going to go anywhere in it. I just want to get a little color while I am gardening,’” Brinkley, who stars in Gap’s newest Bridging the Gap campaign, told PeopleStyle. “I run around trimming my begonias to even everything out so I don’t have any tan lines.”
Her reasoning is simple: “When you’re naked, you want those parts tanned!” Before anyone worries that she’s not practicing sun safety, she’s clear that she’s careful about protecting her skin. “I don’t care how much sunblock you put on, when you’re outdoors as much as I am, you’re going to get some color.”
Although Brinkley’s plan is just to keep her bikini-clad bod to herself at home, sometimes her paddle-boarding takes her to areas that are a little bit more public than she bargains for.
“Where I live there is a side of the island that is the hotel area, and I end up paddle boarding down when I don’t intend to be there,” the star told us. But she takes it all in stride. “You know what? You can’t really critique a person over 50 — it is just like, if they are brave enough to put on a bikini then you let them be!”
I like that she specified that she still wears sunscreen anyway. I’m one of those very pale people who only gets freckles so I just wear a full light shirt if I’m going to be out in the sun all day. (I’m not a gardener though.) As an aside, while I’ve always been conscientious about wearing sunscreen on my face, one thing I wish I had done earlier is wear sunscreen on my hands. I’m starting to get those spots on my hands and they definitely give away my age. I guess I’m surprised that Christie hangs out regularly in a bikini, assuming this stupid anecdote is true. She’s so slavishly devoted to looking young, I would think she would cover up more. Maybe she figures that she can always have something done at the dermatologist to reverse it.
Christie also did an interview with InStyle, where she called Instagram “the new knitting,” said she’s “attuned to beauty” because of it, and explained that she tells her kids not to stress about what other people think. “I always say to my kids, I just want you to relax and not feel like you have to worry about what ‘they’ think. Because who is they? ‘They’ doesn’t exist. Everybody is busy in their lives and there’s a few little gossips here and there, in the big picture, what does it matter.” She explained that well, and usually the beauty she’s attuned to is her own. I’m just saying she has a lot of selfies, as do most people.
Photos credit: WENN and Instagram/Christie Brinkley
Narcissistic much?
Please, Christie, go away. Still obsessed with wanting everyone to praise your looks.
I wonder if Christie’s daughter feels used by the narcissism. I don’t care if Brinkley is freakin’ 50. Just telling the world that you walk around with no clothes makes them imagine. I wish that she would turn 60 and shut up – put on some clothes and try to be respectable, and foster her daughters rather than herself. She is so “girlish”-choke!
She is 63.
I feel sorry for her daughters.
I’ve thought about it and claps to being healthy, so one may look 10 years younger than their biological age. Most people eat crap do not care and do not exercise. On the other hand, what is the point of being attractive? To attract a mate! However, the bikini lines Christie needs to really care about are the ones that she shares with her partner, only. Again, Kudo’s, but it’s her daughters who carry of our future – containing the future! Why are women fierce? – We Should Be In Charge! If being sexually attractive is the only goal, mating and bearing young, then we should stop being human. Brinkly should be focusing on them – highlighting them, rather than herself who is a mere quirk of nature because of extreme self-focus. and money, and luck. (unless it is all about money). Some women care a great deal about money and status, but I notice the majority care most for their young. Bless Hillary Clinton, who could have become the first woman president, due to a lot of hard work, and grit. If you believe in it, remember her in your prayers, because she tried like hell, for the rest of Us.
I always say to my sister: THEY don’t pay my bills or deal with my issues so I can always wipe my *ss with THEIR opinion. (The Royal They pretty much includes everyone up to and including my close relatives, strangers off the street etc etc etc I wear what I wear when I want to and decline invites and whatnot under the same precept, Cause make no mistake.. THEY won’t also tell me what to do in my off personal time LOL)
Now on to Thirstie Brinkley.. I do not understand why her and to an extent Cindy with the Kaia Thing are so so very pressed for that “Im still so hot you guys!! JUST LOOK!!.. AND AND AND I made PRETTY PRETTY GIRLS!!, WE CAN BE A TEAM!, WERE COOL” … Is like Marnie’s mom i Girls with that BS Michaels Sisters Nonsense
For some reason, they seem to be insecure – Cindy and Christie. It’s sad because they were and are awesome women without emphasizing their appearance or focusing on getting and keeping male attention.
I wonder about Cindy’s daughter, Kaia. I hope they’ll encourage her to go to university or college so she has options. Life changes so much these days especially, options seem a necessity for life long happiness and growth.
Yes. With all the resources they have to offer their kids, they aspire to be…models? Eh, props to Christie and Cindy for hustling when they were young and being successful…but wouldn’t you want to use the money and life you created to help your kids be, I don’t know, anything else??
And also, none of these ladies offspring are really special enough to be what their mothers were…so there’s also that.
Going to college so she has options?!?
No need to worry about them – All these celebrity offsprings have options all the live-long day coming out the ying-yang!
If they never brought home a single penny, I’m sure they’re still set for life.
Isn’t Alexa Ray the sole heir to Billy Joel’s not-inconsiderable fortune? I imagine a few royalty cheques alone would be more money than most of us see for a year of full-time work.
@Canadian Becks-of course financially they’re set for life. However, being a “Trust Fund Baby” usually has all kinds of downfalls and those kids have issues. I would want my kids to be well rounded, figure out who they are, what they’re good at–not to just spend their existence “hanging out”.
I often don’t even recognize Brinkley, she has such horrible surgery. I remember about 5 years ago, she was doing some tacky infomercial, and I had no idea who she was, her eyes looked so horrible.
I feel badly for women whose entire self-worth is in their looks. Sad!
Your green is showing.
Canadian-Becks, I wouldn’t want my kids to go to college so they have options if I were that rich. I would want them to be educated, wise, able to forge ahead and create their own path in the world, not have a heiress-life where everything they have was their’s due to the accident of birth. That is a recipe for an empty life and a lot of issues.
She’s worse than any teenager, and should know better. She only looks ridiculous most of the time.
The shallowness of her posing and posting is bizarre. Along with the transparency of her fake story in an effort to create a picture/image. Cleans her own begonias my ass!
She’s kind of awful, but I do get some kind of weird enjoyment from the fact that she seems to be mentally stuck in 1987.
I doubt she’s given her daughters the positive body image she claims considering one has had a massive amount of plastic surgery and speaks regularly about her insecurities and the other is a vapid instamodel. Come on, Christie, encourage your daughters to focus on the inside – go to school, do charity work – whatever! And while I commend her on one hand for doing whatever she wants, on the other hand it just feeds into an unrealistic expectation about women ageing. At 60 looking good doesn’t mean looking 30 or 40 still. And it suggests that the only thing sexually attractive is this artificial youth. Makes me love Helen Mirren even more!
This!^
100. I wonder if they cling to youth for themselves or for others. Helen Mirren is a rock star and knows how to live her life, look fabulous, without worrying about tan lines, we all know that was Christies’ way of garnering attention, as I’m quite sure this can’t matter to her, please tell me it doesn’t!!! We all get a turn at being young, but then the pages turn. Beauty comes in all ages, sizes, races and genders. Those who try too hard end up as Joan Rivers, no offense to her, but you can’t cling to what once was without fooling yourself, as well as targeting yourself. In essence, enjoy all stages of life.
Hear hear Nancy!
You know, we live in a Beauty Culture. There have been other cultures that placed a premium on beauty; Ancient Egypt comes to mind. But Beauty is Big in 21st century Los Angeles and other parts of the US and the First World in general. Sure, it’s an emphasis that is fraught with problems, but it has a lot of positives too. Everything is beautiful, which can really buoy your life in a good way. For that reason I don’t tear down Beauty Culture, and I don’t tear down people, like Christie, whose profession and lifestyle places a focus on beauty. I’m grateful for people like her. She brings it. And I like it.
Great post!!! Agree with everything you wrote.
Yeah cause it’s those damn tan lines that just make you go mad. I don’t think all models are this bad. She and Cindy Crawford seem to be the most vocal and annoying about their looks. You chicks are getting old and one would think by this point in life, you’d realize what matters most. They’re decades beyond the live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse mantra of their generation. It’s actually sad when you think of the little things like hunger, no insurance, illness, how am I going to pay the rent the majority of us regular folk face, damn tan lines just have to be the worse. Oh the inhumanity!!! Poor Christie
You know who was stunningly beautiful and is aging pretty darn naturally and well? Michelle Pfeiffer. She may have had some work, but it looks natural.
I really like her.
Michelle has an angel face. She will be beautiful at 100.
I like Princess Diana since we are dreaming about our best girlfriends. She really is lovely and brings the royals to shame.
Hmmm….kinda seeing why oh boy drifted off…..
Her face is going into joker territory- what with the crazy smiles and fillers.
If you are that concerned with tanning/tan lines, your head isn’t screwed on properly.
Ugh, her life seems exhausting to me. As someone said up thread Helen Miren is more of an inspiration to me. She needs to let go of trying to look 20.
How does wearing a bikini prevent tan lines? “When you’re naked, you want those parts tanned!”
Wouldn’t you still have bikini-shaped tan lines?
Those were also the thoughts going through my logical mind too.
“In a bikini all day” sounds more like a way to Titillate with a visual, knowing full well it will get lots of press as a snappy sound bite.
She sure made it a point to stress how she might “casually” find herself paddling through a populated tourist area- just her in her little ole bikini.
If it’s really true that she runs around in a bikini, then I imagine being partially naked all day is a good way to eat way less than you would normally. I live in a climate where we are bundled up 8 months of the year, and yep, there is a tendency to put on weight during those months where you’re not required to show skin in public.
I have no trouble picturing her passing that little tip to her daughters
(” Girls, wear a bikini all day, put up mirrors right inside the fridge”, etc)
I love you, from Canada! Thanks for the chuckles.
That’s what I was wondering too…I didnt get the advice.
At first glance, I thought the person in the robe was Courtney Love then I thought it was Stevie Knicks. I don’t think I would have realized it was Christie Brinkley had I not been reading this article. She looks good in the other photos though. Must be a weird angle.
I thought it was Kim Bassinger at first, then looked again. She does look good in the photos, but Lord can she just give it a rest with the narcissistic vapid outlook she appears to have.
Ha Ha I thought the person in the first Photo was Carly Simon (apologies Carly at least she’s beautiful AND talented AND real)But yes in fact she is reminiscent of Courtney Love.Christie once looked great especially considering her age but now she looks like she’s had lots of work and she’s shilling for attention.I will do my best to think of Christie and her girls when giving my own daughter body image advice AKA Be the opposite of Christie
SpiceCake delete the sugar not the fat- give it to your girls. Power; Moxey, guts. Let’s go for it!.
The story is not about being worth “IT”. The story is a creation story that only women can tell. The men are jealous, they “come” all over the place, and from everywhere, but we are the tempos of society, our heart beats in every child. We are near and dear, and that is powerful enough to love forever, eternal in the heavens! This is that existing in the heart of a woman. No wonder the earth is glad!
Have you heard of the bio-luminaries, the creatures that live below a blue whales dive of 1500 feet? Can you imagine, a creature that is not reflecting sunlight, but creates light?
My favourite supermodel is Christy Turlington. She went back to school, got a Master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and is a global ambassador for CARE, which addresses women’s health care in developing countries. She seems to be living in the real world and is still gorgeous in her 40s without any of the attention seeking behaviour of some others.
Ain’t that the truth. She is an amazing woman.
This exactly. And I don’t see her pushing her daughter into modeling either.
I live out her way & know people that know her. Let’s just say she isn’t known for brains. She hangs on to her “beauty” cause there’s not much else…
I often marvel at the wonders of (high-level professional) makeup!
She looks very bright and shiny in that first shot with the folding fan. Contrast that with the “just-woke selfie” showing the blood-shot eyes- which I imagine still showed her to advantage else she wouldn’t have allowed it to be posted.
Good golly! Here we go with the monthly Christie story: “I’M STILL HOT, YOU GUYS!!! Oh, and also, ignore the obvious work I’ve had done, buy what I’m shilling, and remember, of course, beauty comes from WITHIN!” 😑
When I was a teenager, I guess I was sort of jealous of models (in that teenager-y kind of way where I probably wished I could be prettier). Now I’m wondering what I was thinking. It seems way too exhausting mentally to be a model, no matter how much money you’re paid. I’m not sure how physically demanding it would be in terms of dieting and exercise (though you can get health benefits from moving around and eating the right foods), but having to actually think about every single thing about my looks would make me want to give up on life. To be clear, I would consider myself somewhat vain at times (I don’t think I’m above wanting to look good), but even having to plan out a facial seems tiring to me. The best I can manage is sticking on lipstick and half-way through the day when you try to go for a check-up in the mirror seems like a hassle.
Sara Ziff’s documentary Picture Me disabused me of the notion models can have a good life. Unless you are Karlie Kloss and you have an adult who loves and cares for you at every job and is not depending on you to earn money so they can live, it seems inevitable you will be taken advantage of, unless you are VERY lucky. true story – a woman said a photog used flash bulbs that burned FIVE models’ eyes during a shoot. no care for the women at all.
Current models are so thin they have to photoshop weight on many.
And from personal experience, I don’t care what anyone says – maintaining a level of thinness like that of current models WILL take a toll on your mental health.
I notice that Christine Brinkley’s skin care line of face creams are all over the place now and they are not cheap. Why would I use them when she uses Botox, fillers, plastic surgery and expensive facials to get her so called youthful look. I doubt she even uses her own beauty line. It is the same way I feel about Cindy Crawford ‘s skin care line.
Exactly!
Love her ass
Go away.
Amen John
You too.
I came straight to the comments. She can avoid tan lines only if she is naked all the time. I will read the post now 🙂
“I Woke Up Like This”
You mean you wore false eyelashes to bed? Not good for your real lashes, darling.
She has worked all her life in a looks-dominated industry. She has had more smoke blown up her ass than a chimney. I think if she feels like being proud of herself for upkeep, so be it. Only those who are jealous speak against it.
Come on, it’s sad that at the age of 63, all the woman ever talks about or focuses on is her looks. Not her soul, not her other accomplishments, not her good works, charity work, reaching out to the world in any way.
Just her looks.
If anyone is jealous of that and her, they are as shallow, vacuous and unintelligent as Christie.
I’m getting shades of Charo in that red jumpsuit.
Christie is a beautiful woman, but one wonders what happens when she can’t keep milking her looks. Better, as has been mentioned above, be a good looking you at your age rather than morph into someone else in your pursuit for youth.
Janet R – I think that ship already sailed. I get shades of Joker – in – pantsuit. She’s drifted into desperation territory in both looks and behavior.
Am I the only one who noticed #sleepingwiththetelevisionon (the name of a Billy Joel song)? … 🙂
She’s as vapid as a hot air balloon. She sends ALL the wrong messages to women. She preens and prances like a prize horse then says utterly stupid things like “avoiding tan lines” while wearing a bikini. Dumbass….you WILL get tan lines unless you trim those begonias stark buck naked.
I can’t be the only one who finds her vastly overrated. I’m not saying she’s unattractive, and I know it’s subjective, but I’ve just never seen the big deal about her. And lately, she looks downright creepy in some pics imo LOL
Shit son, I thought you could just put on sunscreen. How could I have been so wrong all these years?
Yes Christie, you’re still smokin’ hot. Now shut the f up & sit down…
Christie is in the same boat as Halle Berry, both are gorgeous, look 15 years younger than their years, and have the absolute WORST taste in men as anyone can have. That, or they’re both so bat shit crazy, no man can stomach them.
Can’t stand this woman. Total try hard.
When I see people like this, I think of a line from a song.
“If you don’t see me ,I don’t exist”
Give it up, Christie. Age with dignity and grace.
Honestly, I am telling, it hurts to get old, our body fails. The memo, however, is alway for the young and green growing love. There is really no reason to live, but for that beauty, and it is so joyous to be a part. Simple goodness, trust, and hard work. Then I want to count my sepulcher (our beautiful, can you even imagine the beauty of our sight?) as the among the stars…and I will always remember the woman who took my head, and gave me water. Forever, may I?
Forget, and be lost among you. Cheers to beauty! And how can I create a tribute to the earth that has long protected and made me viable – the earth that let me be?
Seriously, you woke up like this? With full eyelashes on?? Lip color? perfectly tousled hair? rriiigghhttt…. how old are you that you feel the need to advertise this? Seems so high school… so kardashian. I didn’t even recognize this was Christy, looks like a totally different person.
Lol she woke up like that, sure she did. With a team of makeup and hair stylists hovering over her. If I woke up like that my husband would be like, ‘babe the makeups all over the pillows’ haha
I read her “I woke up looking like this” blurb as she was being deliberately tongue in cheek.
Back in the day I always liked Christie’s body, with its defined waist and rounded hips. It was a throwback to Welch, Loren, Monroe, et al. I have to say, though, here the red jumpsuit isn’t flattering–it make her hips look wider than usual, and I don’t think that’s the look she was going for.