The 63-year-old Christie Brinkley and her two daughters are the cover women of Sports Illustrated magazine's swimsuit issue. This magazine has featured her in three consecutive years when she was in her 20's.
Her comeback on the cover made some noise more than the first time she posed in 1979. What is the difference? Well, models retire early and posing in her swimsuit for a magazine cover at 63 is quite unbelievable. Many praised the former model for her looks and her body. She is still fit and attractive.
She was sandwich between her two lovely daughters: Alexa Ray Joel, 31 and Sailor Brinkley Cook, 18. Joel is her daughter with ex-husband Billy Joel while Cook is fathered by ex-husband Peter Cook.
Christie Brinkley expressed her gratitude to the magazine. She wrote, "Thank you Sports Illustrated for sending the powerful message that good things come in packages of every size and we do not come with an expiration date!"
According to BBC, she was praised for courageously posing for the magazine. The magazine editorial page says that she is "out to prove that age is nothing more than a number". The cover received positive response on social media though there are comments asking if posing in a swimsuit at 63 is really an achievement.
CNN wrote that posing with her daughters in a sports magazine is not timely as women at present are fighting for equality and respect. The Women's March are still pushing their idealism long after the Trump inauguration.
Although the source wrote that the issue is empowering and has a powerful message, it may send a message about the ideal that seems unreachable for the ordinary woman. Brinkley was also sending the message that posing for magazine like she and her daughter did was a form of affirmation.
The current issues that women face nowadays are aplenty and aging beautifully is the least of them. Christie Brinkley and her daughters have sent a message to some but it is more on the outward appearance. Their inner character, their strengths, their kindness, perseverance, goodness, and faith were not magnified.
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