Beauty
Christie Brinkley: Before All the Divorces

Before becoming a supermodel and getting involved in her bitter divorce battle with Peter Cook (and less contentious divorces to Richard Taubman, Billy Joel and Jean-Francois Allaux), Christie Brinkley was just another gorgeous 19-year-old art student discovered at a post office in Paris.
Christie Brinkley
Photographer Errol Sawyer discovered Christie and was the first to take professional photos of her way back in 1973.

Unlike her marital love, the 54-year-old's beauty does not fade.



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31. 23. Why do her eyes look black in the 1970's pic? Does she wear blue contact lenses? yuck

Posted at 1:59PM on Jul 9th 2008 by huh

Good lord! Another douche. Her eyes don't look blue, because it happens to be a black and white photograph.

Posted at 2:33PM on Jul 9th 2008 by Kendra

32. I read comments about K. Kadashian or whatever her name is...
she has a behind like an old lady and people say she is hot!!!! and has a great body -
it is the decline of the civilization when the peasant low class look is considered desirable....
when I was younger the ideal in beauty was Christie Brinkley look ...
and I'm YOUNG!!!!
what happened in the past twenty years????

Posted at 2:38PM on Jul 9th 2008 by lexi

33. She was and still is the classic All-American beauty.

How brutal is it that her daughter looks just like Billy Joel!!

Posted at 2:37PM on Jul 9th 2008 by Mrs. Pine

34. If this isnt a case for MASSIVE INCREASES IN THE CAPITAL GAINS TAX, id dont know what is. This bitch is worth 8 billion dollars and has 3 yachts? FOR WHAT? Having her stupid picture taken. How much did her idiot husband spend on porn, while plenty of americans elsewhere are going hungry. Its sickening. Its time for a candidate like Obama to absolutely hammer these wealthy aholes with taxes.

Rest of america, please stop subsidizing these entertainment and athletic IDIOTS. SAVE YOUR MONEY.

If being socialist means you wont have any paris hiltons, then bring it on.

Posted at 2:40PM on Jul 9th 2008 by spooge

35. That is not Christie Brinkley, TMZ in the younger photo.

Posted at 2:40PM on Jul 9th 2008 by vj-dj

36. I never thought she was a great beauty. Very plaine Jane. Never got it. And it is a mystery to me: with all of the chemical peels, face lifts, eye lifts, brows lifts, the doctors' can never restore youth. There is always a tell-tail sign that you just can't put your finger on. Something that always makes them still look old. What is it? I've come to the conclusion it is the haunted look in their eyes from chasing the feather long. I think I may have a chemical peel and slight eye lift when I'm older, but after viewing the harrowing and emotional hollow results of these people, I don't think I would venture much further.

Posted at 2:45PM on Jul 9th 2008 by captain kirk

37. Google "Christie Brinkley" and you will pass out when you see SI shots from her when she was in her 20s.....Brinkley, along with Cheryl Tiegs were true "California girls" from the 1970s and 1980s. They, along with Mariel Hemingway and Brooke Shields paved the way for later supermodels like Christy Turlington and Linda Evangelista, so have a little respect...if Cook needs porn to get it on with Brinkley, then it is later than anyone realizes...she has her own money, too, so I hope she uses it to get on with her life in California where they know how to treat her.......

Posted at 2:50PM on Jul 9th 2008 by Jim MOrrison

38. #31 I always thought the same thing about Alexa Ray.. Such a beautiful mother and she ends up looking like Billy Joel what a shame.. Her young son is gorgeous like her..

Posted at 3:06PM on Jul 9th 2008 by BJ Rocks

39. Like David Cook, or hate him...Christie Brinkley HAS been married FOUR TIMES.
There's got to be a LITTLE baggage on her part, to have been through four men now.
She is HOTTER now, than the earlier photo. Has she had work done on her face? If not, then that isn't her in the 70's photo.
Maybe it's the lame photo, with her not smiling and in black/white.
Why would David Cook want to fu** around on her? THERE'S GOT TO BE A REASON !!!

just my opinion...

Posted at 3:06PM on Jul 9th 2008 by hoochie

40.
Response to #11 who is asking what MILF means.
MILF means Mother I'd Like to F..k, and expression MILF became very famous after movie "American Pie" where Stifler's Mom (very sexy middle-aged mother) was called MILF by Stifler's teenage friends.

Posted at 3:14PM on Jul 9th 2008 by orchidgirl

41. TMZ......YOU MESSED UP. THE B & W is NOT a pic of Brinkley. Try again.......

Posted at 3:48PM on Jul 9th 2008 by noitall

42. Totally agree with #5. There's absolutely nothing about her that is a "standout" in the "looks" department. She looks like plain jane with me and decent make-up.

Posted at 3:50PM on Jul 9th 2008 by whocares

43. Looks like she had some work done on her nose

Posted at 3:52PM on Jul 9th 2008 by Yevrah Enivel

44. WOW SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL THEN AND NOW, SHE'S GORGEOUS!!! BUT SHE'S HAD NO LUCK IN LOVE, HOPE ALL TURNS OUT WELL FOR HER AND THE KIDS.

Posted at 5:28PM on Jul 9th 2008 by angela

45. If you don't think she is absolutely gorgeous, you're either gay or jealous.


She's freakin' hott! Always has been and always will be.

Posted at 3:58PM on Jul 9th 2008 by So hott!

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