{"id":2480989,"date":"2026-06-29T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2480989"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:19:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:19:46","slug":"christie-brinkley-72-says-theres-a-freedom-that-comes-with-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/christie-brinkley-72-says-theres-a-freedom-that-comes-with-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie Brinkley, 72, Says &#8216;There&#8217;s a Freedom That Comes with Age&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Christie Brinkley told <em>Social Life <\/em>magazine that she&#8217;s embracing aging because &#8220;there&#8217;s a freedom that comes&#8221; with it<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;You don&#8217;t feel like you have to put up with the stuff that you don&#8217;t like anymore,&#8221; the supermodel shared<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brinkley also shared what she loves about her modeling career 50 years in<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/christie-brinkley\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Christie Brinkley;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Christie Brinkley&quot;}\">Christie Brinkley<\/a> is not afraid of aging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The supermodel, 72, shared her perspective on getting older in an interview with <em>Social Life<\/em> for the magazine&#8217;s latest cover story. While speaking with <em>Social Life<\/em> editor Devorah Rose, Brinkley said that she&#8217;s found &#8220;freedom&#8221; with age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I think that with age you get \u2026 freer,\u201d she said. \u201cYou do what you wanna do when you wanna do it. I think that there&#8217;s a freedom that comes with age that&#8217;s quite wonderful. You don&#8217;t really care what anybody thinks about your outfit anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, &#8220;You know what you like. You know what you don&#8217;t like. And you don&#8217;t feel like you have to put up with the stuff that you don&#8217;t like anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-0 size-full\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-3 right-3 rounded-full bg-primary p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-primary\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"flex-none size-4 -scale-x-100 text-primary lg:size-6 [&amp;_path]:fill-current\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M3.1 3.1V11h1.8V6.314l5.392 5.393 1.415-1.414L6.313 4.9H11V3.1zm17.8 17.8V13h-1.8v4.686l-5.393-5.393-1.415 1.414 5.393 5.393H13v1.8z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed bottom-0 left-0 right-0 top-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-primary hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><i>Christie Brinkley for &#8216;Social Life&#8217; magazine<br \/>Credit: Social Life Magazine<\/i><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brinkley added that she has always had gratitude even throughout &#8220;a million ups and downs, highs and lows, tragedies and scandals and all of the above.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve always been grateful for wherever I am in the moment,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I always say that I&#8217;m happiest in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Brinkley also shared what she loves about her modeling career 50 years in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve loved modeling for over 50 years now because it&#8217;s always different every day,\u201d she explained. \u201cA different group of people, a different kind of job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;PEOPLE'&quot;}\" class=\"link \">PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ahead of her 70th birthday, Brinkley spoke to PEOPLE about why she embraces wrinkles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI want to accept certain wrinkles,&#8221; she said. &#8220;That&#8217;s the way I&#8217;m approaching aging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She continued, \u201cSometimes when people get older, and they overdo it, they can look waxy and \u2014 I don&#8217;t know what the word is \u2014 preserved or something. I want a little life to show on my face, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While Brinkley said she had gotten Botox in the past, she admits that injectables aren&#8217;t for her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve Botoxed my forehead two times. It did look smooth as could be but the first time it gave me a droopy eyebrow,&#8221; she recalled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The model shared that once in a while, she gets an injectable to smooth other lines around her mouth: \u201cBut probably just once in a year, as opposed to back in the day when I would go in several times during the year to say, \u2018Make sure fix this or fix that.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But more recently, she said, \u201cI&#8217;m kind of more comfortable just letting it be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/christie-brinkley-72-says-there-s-a-freedom-that-comes-with-age-12008703\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:People;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;People&quot;}\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Christie Brinkley told Social Life magazine that she&#8217;s embracing aging because &#8220;there&#8217;s a freedom that comes&#8221; with it &#8220;You don&#8217;t feel like you have to put up with the stuff that you don&#8217;t like anymore,&#8221; the supermodel shared Brinkley also shared what she loves about her modeling career 50 years in Christie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2480990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[397739,373513,488407],"class_list":["post-2480989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-christie-brinkley","tag-modeling-career","tag-social-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Christie-Brinkley-72-Says-Theres-a-Freedom-That-Comes-with.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2480989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480991,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2480989\/revisions\/2480991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2480990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2480989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2480989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2480989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}