NEW YORK (AP) — Christie Brinkley could have a memoir out this spring, tracing “every adventure and twist of fate” from her rise to changing into a supermodel to her appearing profession to her marriage to Billy Joel.
And, sure, she’s calling the ebook “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 a press release Tuesday launched by means of Harper Affect, which is able to publish her ebook on April 29.
Brinkley, who turned 71 this week, has been a celeb 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 identified 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 broadly related along with her. (Joel has cited Brinkley and fellow supermodel Elle McPherson as inspirations.)
Brinkley has been married 4 occasions, most lately to Peter Prepare dinner, whom she divorced in 2008. In response to Harper Affect, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, she is going to replicate 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.”
