Uptown Girl
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4.2 • 38 Ratings
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- $22.99
Publisher 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 she experienced 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, Uptown Girl is the brave account of a life lived at full throttle and on full display.
Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Customer Reviews
Not a dumb blond
Loved!! What a life. She could have benefited from therapy. She picked all the wrong men to fill emotional emptiness from the abandonment of her father.
Don’t waste your money!
I would have preferred to have read this book over an audio, her voice and her exaggerated French accent comes across as incredibly arrogant . Her stories seem exaggerated.
She’s lucky she’s beautiful her personality is not great unless you like fake people who always exaggerate stories to get attention .
I’m going to attempt to get a refund for this book not sure if it’s possible, but that’s how much I dislike this book and Christie Brinkley .
Interesting Story
I never knew much about her it was an interesting story lots of heartbreaks lots of triumphs. Good story if listening on any device with Alexa turn it off my kept on interrupting every time she said Alexa Ray.