Christie Brinkley.Photo:Christie Brinkley/Instagram
Christie Brinkley/Instagram
Christie Brinkleyis beaming with joy after turning 70!
“Looking in the mirror on my 70th Birthday and what do I see? I’m finally happy with the person looking back back at me. I’m no longer critical and demanding, now I’m grateful and understanding,” the poem began.
Brinkley shared the poem in anInstagram postthat included three selfies of herself smiling from ear to ear, wearing a white Alo sports bra and black ankle-length leggings that showed off her famous supermodel figure.
“I’ve put this body thru it,” the poem continues. “I’ve broken every bone. In tiny miracles, I’m all healed. In my heart and soul, I’m home. It’s taken 70 years to get here. In tears and joy I’ve found my happy. So now I’m going to end this poem before I get too sappy! Happy Birthday Indeed!”
Christie Brinkley smiles while out on a tropical getaway.Christie Brinkley/Instagram
Another post includedphotos from a surprise birthday partythat her kids,Jack Brinkley-CookandSailor Brinkley-Cook, planned. “We dined and danced under the stars. It was some enchanted evening,” shared Brinkley.
While speaking to PEOPLE in January, Brinkley shared that she was looking forward to a new year of life “with a lot of reverence and emotion.”
“I think 70 is very similar to 50, in that it’s a time when you look both back and forward,” she told PEOPLE. Brinkley noted that the “steady march” to 70 has carried a certain weight.
Christie Brinkley jumps in the water while on vacation.Christie Brinkley/Instagram
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“The big 7-0 is another one of those [ages] that’s up there in giant block numbers that loom over. At 62, you start thinking, ‘Well, I’malmost70.’ It cast a shadow all over that whole decade down,” Brinkley said. The milestone has made her look at each day with gratitude.
“I want to keep on charging ahead and having lots of dreams and chasing them and following them and living them,” she told PEOPLE.
source: people.com
