Christie Brinkley has often been asked the secret to looking great at 63 and while she’s admitted to getting Botox and filler after changing her story about that, she usually focuses on more natural prevention measures, like exercise and diet. She has a whole book about that, called Timeless Beauty, and right around the time she released that book she started admitting to injectables, but she’s never owned up to more invasive plastic surgery. The entire shape of her eyes has changed but she’s still minimizing the amount of work she’s had done. In what I believe is a new interview with New Idea magazine (via Daily Mail), Brinkley said she does “tiny, minute” amounts of filler but not to look “hugely different.” Oh and she also has a skincare line because of course she does.
‘I truly think my vegetarian diet plays a huge role (in looking younger)’ Christie told the publication.
Recalling how she became a ‘lifelong vegetarian,’ the blonde bombshell said she ‘read about the slaughterhouses’ and decided she was ‘not going to be a part of that system’.
‘I’ve been vegetarian ever since,’ she added.But the aspiring actress said it is also about the mentality of how people approached their food, claiming she is strongly opposed to dieting.
‘We have to stop thinking of healthy eating as a ‘diet’, which I call deny-eting. It’s like you are denying something you should be having,’ Christie said.
‘Instead you need to have a paradigm shift and be like: “I have the opportunity to gift myself”‘.
And a treat every once in a while was not off the tables, with the entrepreneur enjoying alcohol occasionally, calling a glass of Prosecco an ‘exclamation point on the end of a good day’.
The model, who was the face of CoverGirl for 25 years, did admit she had tried her hand at cosmetic surgery though, but insisted it was ‘tiny, minute amount’.
‘I just do it if I have a line I don’t like, not to look hugely different,’ she disclosed to the publication.
But while she has experimented with Botox, she admitted it was ‘a disaster,’ joking that her eyebrows were not expressive enough for her.
A fan of keeping active, Christie also told New Idea she feels like she has to move everyday, ‘because you rust if you don’t’.
Among her favourite’s seemed to be simple and relaxing activities, saying: ‘You can never get tired of yoga’.
[From New Idea via The Daily Mail]
Yeah look at her chipmunk cheeks. In motion (you can see an interview with her from last week here) she looks overfilled. I googled it and apparently fillers like Juvederm do build up and last longer each time so while she may be getting “tiny” amounts the results are very noticeable and she does look different. Also, because I’m lazy I just used older before and after photos of her below, but check out the “after” photos compared to how puffy she’s looking now. That’s not weight gain, she’s incredibly fit. That’s all I’m saying. I would pay a lot of money to look like her “after” photos even when I got to be about 55 maybe, but her photos now make it look painful. As I’ve said I hope it fades for her.
Now:
Photos credit: WENN.com, Instagram, screenshots from Access Hollywood video
“Minute” amounts of filler? HAHAHAHAHA! Shame of it is that she looked stunning and uniquely herself in 2006 and 2009. Now it’s plastic city. Fake teeth, fake hair, fake cheeks. Ugh.
She has what we call in California “LA face”. Women with long blonde hair, tight jeans, high heels, who you think are in their late 20’s and then they turn around and they are actually in their 60’s and look scary as hell. I was in Paris last week. Older women there age gracefully and elegantly and look fabulous. Plastic surgery profession has done a huge disservice to some American women. Sad.
In 2009 she reminds me of someone, maybe Cindy McCain? Like her eyes are screaming but her face can’t move.
ETA: No, it’s Callista Gingrich! She looks like Callista Gingrich in that 2009 photo!
In a few years she’ll look like Donatella Versace. She’s already part-way there.
…or the Cat Lady.
She looked prettier in 2006, 2009, she should have stopped then.
I turned 50 this year and I totally get pining for your 30 year old face and body. But you can’t regain it. When you use fillers and botox and do god knows what else to your face-it just looks weird. If I, just a pleasant looking middle class house wife, wish I could turn back time–what would an aging model famous for her looks feel like? I have sympathy for her.
I used to think Madonna was terrified of looking old, but I think Christie has her beat.
Because aging sucks for us peasants…now imagine to be in Hollyweird: as a matter of facts actresses in their 40’s have a tough life in getting roles… I cannot judge them for all the works getting done to their face. It’s not healthy, It’s crazy but I cannot imagine the pression.
Personally, I turned 36(!) two weeks ago, and for now I know I don’t want to look younger, because when I look back all I see are the mistakes I had to make, all the pain I had to go through to get until here, in the “I don’t give a crap about this S@*t anymore” land and no: no going back, and not my younger face. I hope I will be able to keep like this, and don’t give a crap about my wrinkles too.
It doesn’t just end up looking weird, it really ages them. When I see a face like that, I just assume they’re in their 70s. I see Joan Rivers. I honestly don’t think she or Kris Kardashian or any of these women in their 60s could ever pass for younger than their actual age after they’ve had all that work done.
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I don’t know: on one hand she sounds delusional because it’s obvious to everyone but her that she looks like chipmunk. On the other hand… I’m not 50, so what do I know about trying to hold on to your beauty? Especially when you are a model.
She still looks ridiculous though.
Yes! Plus she appears as if she is even more thirsty now than she ever was when she hit apex prime. So that zealous pursuit over-emphasizes her fleeting freshness which is not a good look for her.
Man, I don’t want to judge a woman twice my age whose job it’s been to look model beautiful most of her life. Because I don’t know how I’ll deal with 60. But I hope and pray that I’ll find the line and won’t step over it. Because it will always land you in plastic town. She looked fantastic in 2006. She should’ve stopped there.
I don’t get fillers. Do they EVER look good? What if you have a reaction to them? They basically melted Lara Flynn Boyles face. I’m deathly afraid of needles so I think botox will never be for me but who knows. Filler will NOT enter my body. She looks puffy, like someone stuffed her.
The fact that she still lies pisses me off though. Just be honest, it’s literally all over (and in) your face.
I think she looks great for her age; however, everyone I’ve seen ends up with that feline look. I’m not sure if it’s the Botox or the filler or both.
I met friends for dinner a few weeks ago. We had not seen one another for over a year. When the last one showed up, I could tell something was different, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Then I realized her wrinkles were much less noticeable (she’s 60). As I started looking at her, I realized her forehead wasn’t moving at all and that deep wrinkles she used to have were filled out. Her eyes looked very different and feline-like.
My friend is a very attractive woman, but once I realized (about 5 minutes in) what was going on, I couldn’t stop looking and thinking, “You were prettier before.”
She doesn’t look like a real flesh n blood person in the instagram photo.
And I don’t want to hear about her vegetarian diet unless she talks about the shoes, bags, and belts she’s wearing.
You know they make very sophisticated non- leather accessories and shoes now. She has the money to afford the best. I’m not rich and haven’t used/worn leather shoes, belts, etc. in 40 yrs. (But agree, she looks plastic.)
ITA with you. And I am not saying she is wearing leather or not. But either way I am interested to know.
Fillers always look sooooo bad. I don’t understand how they people who get them don’t realize how weird they look. She looked beautiful in the before pictures and a little odd now.
Agree. They give people a meaty, thick face look. I recently saw someone who I hadn’t in quite a while and nearly didn’t recognize her because of filler face and botox brow drop. The kicker is that she is a naturally thin and very pretty lady. It made me a little sad for her.
Why, why why? These beautiful women always end up looking like muppets.
Don’t know if I’ll be in trouble for saying this, but as my Scottish friends say, “her eyes look like two piss holes in the snow”. Her eyes now look alien, and sunken deep into her face.
I think it is unfair to compare pix from 8 or 10 years ago with what she looks like now (unless you are looking for signs of a nose job or jaw shaving or something like that). Of course she looks different now. She was in her mid-50s then, and now she is in her mid-60s. Also, esp the 2006 pic, the old ones look massively botoxed, forehead so flat and heavy it hurts. Overall, in terms of too much filler, i think she is only a tad over the happy medium.
I think the trouble with fillers and botox is people dont know when to quit. A little here and there is ok. I have friends who are getting their eyes done and lips plumped and botox for the lines between their eyes. They look worse!
I just saw the video. If I had no knowledge of what she looked like before, I’d think she looked great. Maybe in her 40s? But yeah, compared to previously she has a totally different face.
When I saw that IG pic I seriously thought it was Melanie Griffith. Never a good thing to be mistaken for her.
Ugh that last pic. Her face looks painful!
She has crossed a line for sure, I hope there is some coming back from it – but her cheeks are so different. That last picture on the plane? It looks like her cheeks are in the way of her vision! It is so sad that such a beautiful woman feels that she has to do this to herself….
Hahaha fix a line, riiiiiight. I guess her entire face is a big ol’ line. What a fake.