Christie Brinkley Says Elevating Children in Highlight Is ‘Largest Bummer’ of Fame

Christie Brinkley is opening up concerning the difficulties of elevating her children within the highlight.

The previous Sports activities Illustrated mannequin, 71, appeared on the Completely Booked with Zibby podcast and defined that elevating her three children within the highlight has been one of many “hardest” issues she’s skilled with reference to being well-known.

Brinkley shares daughter Alexa, 38, with ex Billy Joel, son Jack, 30, with ex Richard Taubman, and daughter Sailor, 26, with ex Peter Cook dinner.

“Having children might be one of many areas that is the hardest. Coping with a certain quantity of movie star and the scrutiny that goes together with it’s arduous,” says Brinkley. “When that overlaps they usually begin scrutinizing your children and evaluating? That basically hurts. Actually.”

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“It is the one factor that I can say has been the most important bummer of being well-known since you by no means need what you might be doing to harm anyone,” she continues. “And Alexa actually obtained harm by issues that the media would say about her and continued to say about her by way of the years. It was actually arduous on her and I believe it is actually arduous.”

The mother of three goes on to elucidate that fame affected her children in another way and have become notably troublesome along with her youthful daughter, Sailor.

“My different two got here 10 years later, and Sailor, who obtained in comparison with me for wanting like me, had problem with that as a result of she struggled along with her weight,” says Brinkley. “She dabbled in modeling, however she did not actually like it. It wasn’t her factor, however when she was youthful and she or he dabbled in it, she thought, ‘Now I’ve to appear to be a mannequin and I’ve to drop some weight.'”

“But it surely was tough on her too, and she or he obtained an consuming dysfunction and she or he obtained anorexic, and it is simply powerful. So now I say to them: take a look at anyone like Kate Hudson, who’s so properly adjusted. She’s obtained Goldie Hawn, tremendous well-known, like actually well-known, and Kurt Russel as her dad – or stepdad? — and she or he simply retains doing issues.”

Brinkley explains that she makes use of Hudson for example as a result of she by no means lets what the press says about her have an effect on her.

“So I try to say to them: do not even learn the press for starters,” Brinkley says of her children. “And never even simply the press, however the letters folks write, though I have to say, I believe we have now a really good group of individuals in our Instagram.”

“I say to Alexa: if they are saying you are a nepo child since you sing, do they are saying to the child whose dad owns the ironmongery shop and he takes over the ironmongery shop, that he is a nepo child?” Brinkley says of Alexa, whose dad is the famed “Piano Man” singer. “It is like a household enterprise! Like, you grew up on a sound stage or on the sting of a Madison Sq. Backyard stage.”

Brinkley says that is simply how Alexa was raised, and it is solely pure that her daughter would wish to comply with in her father’s footsteps.

“Nepo child is only a time period which means your mother and father had been in showbiz, so run with it. Who cares?” provides Brinkley.