Uptown Girl: A Memoir

Description

In 1974, a twenty-year-old Christie Brinkley was “discovered” outside a Paris phone booth, which set
off a meteoric modeling career that would land her on the covers of hundreds of magazines and
cement her legacy as an All-American icon.

Although she’s lived more than fifty years in the public
eye, the full story of her roller-coaster life has never been told.
Now, for the first time, Christie shares what life has been like, both in front of and behind the cameras,
considering the girl she was alongside the woman she has become. Her stories are as heartening as
they are eye-opening, as she recounts her most formative chapters, including the betrayal by her
biological father as a child, her lifelong passion for art, her whirlwind career, her four tumultuous
marriages—including her heartbreaking divorce from Billy Joel—and the harrowing experiences that
almost cut her life short.

Through it all, Christie’s unwavering belief in the magic and mystery of life has been her guiding light,
even during her darkest times. It is with this grace and gratitude that she tenderly chronicles the
unexpected, unexplainable ways her life has unfolded, 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 and hit sitcoms, riding
horses with cowboys, training with world-champion boxers, and even stepping into the spotlight on
Broadway.

A bighearted, beautifully crafted memoir of resilience and self-discovery, featuring more than 100
photographs and never-before-seen pieces of Christie’s original artwork, Uptown Girl is the brave
account of a life lived at full throttle and on full display.