Christie Brinkley on the eve of her 60th birthday on February 2 looks amazing thanks to her diet and daily exercise. Brinkley feels great and is looking forward to his sixtieth birthday.
“I’m really looking forward to turning 60,” Brinkley told People magazine. “I’m in the best shape right now.”
Despite her success as a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover girl, Brinkley says she wouldn’t wear a bikini in public today.
“My kids would be so embarrassed! says the mother of three. “In private, I can wear a bikini, but on a public beach with kids, I would wear a bathing suit: my kids wouldn’t want to hang out with an old bikini purse.”
No wonder other people disagree with her. “Christy looks phenomenal,” says M. J. Day, senior editor of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. “She has the legs of a thirty-year-old and the face of an angel. She is what you want to look like at 60. She is stunningly beautiful!”
Brinkley has been on a vegetarian diet since the age of 12. “I became a vegetarian at about 12 years old,” she says. “When I became a vegetarian, my parents became vegetarians and my brother became a vegetarian.”
For breakfast, Christy usually eats oatmeal with berries, for lunch – a large salad with beans and nuts, and for dinner – pasta with vegetables. The 175cm beautiful blonde snacks on dark chocolate, nuts, seeds, soy snacks or fuji apples with peanut butter.
The slender and fit mother of three works out regularly, combining yoga, strength training, running and walking to keep her body in shape. “I really use the Total Gym machine, this is not an advertisement,” she says.
Immediately after waking up, she does gymnastics. Christy typically does 100 push-ups a day and “lifts her legs while brushing her teeth.”
Brinkley, who has been divorced four times, says her main motivation for health is not vanity, but the desire to be with her children for as long as possible. “I am an elderly mother, I am responsible for the children and for myself,” she says. “I want to be with them.”