Christie Brinkley in a vacation photo she shared on Instagram.Photo:Christie Brinkley/Instagram
Christie Brinkley/Instagram
Christie Brinkleyis celebrating a milestone birthday in style.
The supermodel, who turns 70 on Feb. 2, shareda carousel of photosfrom her celebratory trip on Instagram Wednesday.
“We made it here just in time for a golden sunset at lucky house!” she captioned the post. “And swipe to see what the kids did to our living room so I don’t forget I’m turning 70 on Friday! 😜isn’t that S W E E T!!!!”
Christie Brinkley with son Jack Brinkley-Cook and daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook.Christie Brinkley/Instagram
“Lucky House” is Brinkley’s Turks & Caicos home, a three-bedroom beachfront estate in Parrot Cay.
In three of the photos, Brinkley lounges in a cabana, looking relaxed in jeans and a white tank top. And in the other two images, Sailor and Jack flank their mom as they pose under a festive “happy birthday” banner and dozens of balloons.
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Brinkleytold PEOPLEshe’s approaching her 70th birthday “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 said, adding that the “steady march” to 70 has carried a certain weight.
“The big 7-0 is another one of those [ages] that’s up there in giant block numbers that loom over," she explained. “At 62, you start thinking, ‘Well, I’malmost70.' It cast a shadow all over that whole decade down.”
Still, she focused on how to make the birthday “special.”
“Over the last five years, I thought, ‘I’m going to do a big blowout,’” she said. However, it was hard to find the time.
“Every day I’ve been so busy,” Brinkley said. “I haven’t really had a second to put a plan in place. And you know what? That’s absolutely fine with me.”
Brinkley alsotold PEOPLEthat travel is hovering at the top of her bucket list.
“I still have to see India. I’ve never been to Tahiti or Thailand. I want to go to Bali also. I’ve got to do an eat, pray, love,” she said.
source: people.com
