Christie Brinkley: I only learned to love my body at 50

THE stunning supermodel looks decades younger than her 62 years — but she says a big part of her youthful glow came from letting go of what people think.

Christie Brinkley, 62 and still looking fab as ever.

CHRISTIE Brinkley says she doesn’t care if people compare how she looks to when she was in her Sports Illustrated heyday.

But she didn’t always feel like that.

“Until I turned 50 ... my weight kind of would go up and down with kids and having babies ... then I would go to put on a bathing suit, and I’d go, ‘Oh gosh, I don’t look anything like my Sports Illustrated picture. People are going to go, oh see, I told you it’s all airbrushing.’”

Yes folks, she’s 62.

She continued, “When I turned 50 ... I felt like I had a license to say, ‘Cut me some slack. It doesn’t really matter.’ Now, at 62, I just really want to be healthy. I want to feel good. I want to just not be so self-conscious ... like if my legs are a little flabbier or my upper arms dangle a little bit ... I’m doing the best I can.”

She may have been on the cover of magazines, but Christie Brinkley says during her modelling heyday she wasn’t as comfortable in her own skin.

The sassy supermodel, who looks just as good to us as she did at 20, said that after surviving a 1994 helicopter crash, she’s just happy to still be here. “I have a real appreciation for every single day.”

Red carpet glam. Picture: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images

This article was originally published on the New York Post and is republished here with permission.