Christie Brinkley has a memoir out in April. Yes, it’s called ‘Uptown Girl’
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Christie Brinkley will have a memoir out this spring, tracing 鈥渆very adventure and twist of fate鈥 from her rise to becoming a supermodel to her acting career to her marriage to Billy Joel.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Christie Brinkley will have a memoir out this spring, tracing 鈥渆very adventure and twist of fate鈥 from her rise to becoming a supermodel to her acting career to her marriage to Billy Joel.
And, yes, she’s calling the book 鈥淯ptown Girl.”
鈥淚 wrote 鈥楿ptown Girl鈥 to inspire readers to create the life they want, which is what I鈥檝e always tried to do, not through fortune or fame, but by saying yes to adventure and trying to find the magic in every moment, no matter how big or how small,” Brinkley said in a statement Tuesday released through Harper Influence, which will publish her book on April 29.
Brinkley, who turned 71 this week, has been a celebrity for half a century, since she was discovered in Paris by photographer Errol Sawyer. Her image has appeared on hundreds of magazine covers, from Sports Illustrated to Vogue. She’s also known for such films as 鈥淣ational Lampoon’s Vacation,鈥 her turn on Broadway as Roxie Hart in 鈥淐hicago,鈥 and her cameo in the 1983 video of Joel’s 鈥淯ptown Girl,鈥 a top 10 hit widely associated with her. (Joel has cited Brinkley and fellow supermodel Elle McPherson as inspirations.)
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Brinkley has been married four times, most recently to Peter Cook, whom she divorced in 2008. According to Harper Influence, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, she will reflect on 鈥渉er whirlwind career, her four tumultuous marriages 鈥 including her heartbreaking divorce from Billy Joel 鈥 and the harrowing experiences (a 1994 helicopter crash) that almost cut her life short.鈥
鈥淚n 鈥楿ptown Girl,鈥 she chronicles the unexpected, unexplainable ways her life has unfolded,鈥 Tuesday’s announcement continues, 鈥渆mbracing every adventure and twist of fate along the way: traveling the world as a supermodel at the height of the model wars, living life on the road with her rock star husband and their baby, starring in blockbuster movies, riding horses with cowboys, training with world-champion boxers, and even stepping into the spotlight on Broadway.鈥
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