Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

You don't always have to get an expensive gym membership. The important thing is to keep moving and to make it fun and have variety - it's the spice of life.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

Four months is a lot of living with that little life in you-thinking about it, eating right for it, nurturing it and all of a sudden, it dies.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

At Thanksgiving, I always start at the top of my list and say I'm grateful for friends, family, and good health. Then I get more superficial... like being thankful for my Louboutins.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

Your job as a parent is to listen. And to dole out as much love as you can. That includes tough love.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I had a gorgeous mom. She was beautiful, so I lucked out there.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I never planned to be a model at all. I moved to Paris to study art, and I was there working as an artist, taking classes, and I had a little sick dog that I was using up all of my money to try and heal. It was right at that point that this photographer, Errol Sawyer, saw me at the phoning office and convinced me to let him take my photo.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I came across an older picture of me that someone had posted on Facebook, and I totally remember squirming and feeling very fat while I was shooting it.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I haven't touched a piece of meat since I read a graphic description of Chicago's slaughterhouses when I was 12.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I like coffee in the morning and decaf green tea throughout the day... When I was younger and modeling, to kick-start a diet I would do a juice cleanse.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

Whenever I wore a bathing suit, I kept a sarong around my hips that went halfway down my thighs. The tops of my thighs are like baby skin. Where the sarong ended, I can see sun damage: I've got dark spots and places where there is no melanin. The spots are not pretty, so I encourage everyone to protect their skin from the sun.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

Modelling was never in my plan. Never.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I get bored if I do the same thing. The only constant that I have in my life is that I start whatever I do with my Total Gym, because I believe it helps keep me from getting injured.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I wish my butt did not go sideways, but I guess I have to face that.

Christie Brinkley
Christie Brinkley

I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.