Christie Brinkley opened up about her turbulent love life in a brand new memoir and a supply solely tells Nearer it’s served as a liberating and cathartic expertise to lastly inform her reality and let go of the angst and resentment that she’s carried round for a few years.
“Her e-book has been very effectively acquired by not solely followers but in addition the folks in her life. She had no pushback from Billy, they’re nonetheless nice buddies, so in fact she let him learn it prematurely,” the supply says about Christie’s ex-husband Billy Joel.
“He gave her the go-ahead to inform her story, it’s water below the bridge for him and he’s man sufficient to confess to the methods he tousled. Christie was particularly reasonable to him and to everybody she writes about,” the insider continues.
Christie, 71, and Billy, 76, married in March 1985 and divorced in August 1994. The duo share daughter Alexa Ray Joel, 39.
The memoir additionally displays on the supermodel’s fourth marriage to architect Peter Cook dinner. The pair wed in September 1996 and divorced in October 2008 after Christie discovered he was allegedly having an affair with an 18-year-old girl.
“Her mantra via the writing course of was that she needed complete honesty. She didn’t sugarcoat something, so it was fairly scary to place all of it on the market, but in addition very cathartic. It’s all out within the open now, together with her emotions about Peter and the way actually terribly he handled her,” the supply explains.
“That second, the place she discovered he was dishonest with a woman in highschool whereas giving a speech on the college, will likely be endlessly burned in her mind. It felt good to have the ability to put all of it on the web page. In fact, Peter may have hated it however she doesn’t care. It’s the reality and he or she doesn’t care if he thinks she’s being vengeful, she has the fitting to inform her story,” the insider notes.
Not solely do Christie and Peter, 65, share daughter Sailor, 26, he additionally adopted the entrepreneur’s son, Jack Brinkley-Cook dinner, 30, from Christie’s short-lived 1994 marriage to Ricky Taubman.
Christie Brinkley, Peter Cook dinner and youngsters Jack and Sailor
In Uptown Woman, the Michigan native wrote about how she was approached by a person she’d by no means met whereas giving a commencement speech at an area highschool within the Hamptons in 2006.
“Excuse me,” Christie wrote. “I have to inform you that boastful husband of yours has been having an affair with my teenage daughter.”
“I used to be so shocked that I froze,” Christie continued, saying she then seemed into the viewers to see Peter sitting with Jack. “As quickly as I noticed him, Peter’s eyes have been already skilled on my face, as he started shaking his head, ‘No.’”
“When your complete world falls aside and also you understand in a heartbeat you’ve all of a sudden change into the cliche middle-aged girl whose husband is having an affair with a a lot (a lot) youthful girl, what do you do?” she requested within the e-book.
“There have been many instances after I puzzled if I might ever get better,” Christie informed readers, saying that her kids offered the facility to get via the ache. “Each time I felt this, I ended, seemed inward and counted my blessings, which was an extended record that at all times began with Alexa Ray, Jack, and Sailor.”
