NEW YORK (AP) — Christie Brinkley can have a memoir out this spring, tracing “every adventure and twist of fate” from her rise to changing into a supermodel to her performing profession to her marriage to Billy Joel.
And, sure, she’s calling the guide “Uptown Girl.”
“I wrote ‘Uptown Girl’ to inspire readers to create the life they want, which is what I’ve 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 stated in an announcement Tuesday launched via Harper Affect, which can publish her guide on April 29.
Brinkley, who turned 71 this week, has been a star for half a century, since she was found in Paris by photographer Errol Sawyer. Her picture has appeared on a whole lot of journal covers, from Sports activities Illustrated to Vogue. She’s additionally recognized for such movies as “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” her activate Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” and her cameo within the 1983 video of Joel’s “Uptown Girl,” a high 10 hit extensively related along with her. (Joel has cited Brinkley and fellow supermodel Elle McPherson as inspirations.)
Brinkley has been married 4 occasions, most not too long ago to Peter Cook dinner, whom she divorced in 2008. In accordance with Harper Affect, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, she is going to mirror on “her whirlwind career, her four tumultuous marriages — including her heartbreaking divorce from Billy Joel — and the harrowing experiences (a 1994 helicopter crash) that almost cut her life short.”
“In ‘Uptown Girl,’ she chronicles the unexpected, unexplainable ways her life has unfolded,” Tuesday’s announcement continues, “embracing 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.”
