Christie Brinkley Breaks Arm
Christie Brinkley Breaks Arm in 'DWTS' Rehearsal. After
Christie Brinkley revealed that her daughter Sailor will replace her in the
"Dancing with The Stars" premiere after breaking her arm, Carlos Bustamante
and Graeme O'Neil react during "ET Canada Live".
Brinkley was born Christie Lee Hudson in Monroe, Michigan on
February 2, 1954, the daughter of Marjorie (née Bowling) and Herbert Hudson.
Her family moved to Canoga Park, Los Angeles, California, where her mother
Marjorie later met and married television writer Donald Brinkley in Bel Air,
Los Angeles. Donald adopted Christie and her brother Greg Brinkley. During this
time, the family lived in Malibu and then the Brentwood neighbourhoods of Los
Angeles. Brinkley was educated at Paul Revere Junior High School and attended
Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles from 9th to 12th grade. After graduation in
1973, she moved to Paris, to study art.
Brinkley was discovered in 1973 by American photographer
Errol Sawyer in a post office in Paris. He took her first modelling pictures
and introduced her to John Casablanca’s of Elite Model Management agency in Paris.
Brinkley stated later: "I was basically a surfer girl from California. I
never looked like a model." After being introduced to Elite, where
Brinkley met the fashion photographers Patrick Demarchelier and Mike Reinhardt
who called Eileen Ford and told her about Brinkley, she returned to California,
and by the end of a lunch meeting with Nina Blanchard (Eileen Ford affiliate in
Los Angeles) she had been booked for three national ad campaigns.
In 1982, Brinkley had a romantic relationship with Olivier
Chandon de Brailles, heir to the Moët-Chandon Champagne fortune. The two met at
Studio 54 in New York City at a party promoting a calendar in which Brinkley appeared.
Chandon died a year later in a crash at a private pre-season practice session
car race. In September 2015, it was widely reported that John Mellencamp was in
a new relationship with Brinkley. In August 2016, the couple announced their
separation after almost a year of dating.
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