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Supermodel Christie Brinkley turns 70 today and she celebrated on social media.
Brinkley turns 70
Brinkley celebrated her historic birthday by posting a series of photos of herself and two of her children on vacation in Turks and Caicos on Instagram. The images show Brinkley lying in a cabin and then standing under a banner reading “Happy Birthday” with her children.
“We got here just in time for a golden sunset at Lucky House,” she captioned the post. “And scroll to see what the kids did in our living room, so I don’t forget I’m turning 70 on Friday! isn’t that SWEET!!!!”
Last week, Brinkley told People Magazine that she is approaching her 70th birthday “with a lot of reverence and emotion.”
“I think 70 is a lot like 50 in the sense that it’s a time when you look both back and forward,” he said, adding that just like when he turned 50, the “steady march” toward 70 has had some weight.
“The big 7-0 is another one of those [ages] it’s up there, in gigantic blocks, looming large,” he explained. “At 62 you start to think, ‘Well, I am Almost 70.” It cast a shadow over the entire decade.”
Instead of letting it get him down, however, Brinkley instead devoted his energy to figuring out how to make this moment “special.”
“For the last five years, I thought, ‘I’m going to make a big splash.’” However, life got in the way of her party planning. “Every day I have been so busy,” Brinkley said. “I didn’t really have a second to put a plan in place. And you know what? That’s absolutely fine with me.”
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Brinkley focused on the future
Fox News reported that Brinkley is also focused on the things she still wants to do in this life.
“I have yet to see India,” he said. “I have never been to Tahiti or Thailand. I also want to go to Bali. I have to do “Eat, Pray, Love.”
Brinkley has made it clear that she has no intention of letting her age stop her from taking part in future projects.
“What’s the big deal about 30? What’s the deal about 40?” Brinkley said in September. “If you take care of yourself, eat well, exercise and have a good mental attitude – lots of laughter, lots of curiosity, lots of adventures – that keeps you young In short, age is just a state of mind, so I don’t think about it.”
Watch the interview in the video below.
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Brinkley is “open” to finding love again
Although Brinkley has been married and divorced four times, she is currently single. While she “remains open” to finding love again, she admitted last month that the challenge for her is that “it feels like there’s no one out there.”
“At the same time. I’m pretty comfortable with my life as it is, so, que será, será! she told People Magazine. “I’ve always said my whole life that I think you have to be happy on your own so you can be with a man for the right reasons and not hang on to him because you need to, you know?”
God bless Brinkley for continuing to show the world that age really is just a number. We would like to wish Brinkley a happy birthday and many more to come!
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