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Christie Brinkley has a memoir out in April. Yes, it's known as 'Uptown Girl'

Christie Brinkley may have a memoir out this spring, tracing “every adventure and twist of fate” from her rise to changing into a supermodel to her performing profession to her marriage to Billy Joel.

And, sure, she’s calling the guide “Uptown Girl.”

“I wrote ‘Uptown Girl’ to encourage readers to create the life they need, which is what I’ve all the time tried to do, not via fortune or fame, however by saying sure to journey and looking for the magic in each second, regardless of how huge or how small,” Brinkley mentioned in a press release Tuesday launched via Harper Influence, which is able to publish her guide on April 29.

Brinkley, who turned 71 this week, has been a celeb for half a century, since she was found in Paris by photographer Errol Sawyer. Her picture has appeared on tons of of journal covers, from Sports Illustrated to Vogue. She’s additionally recognized for such movies as “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” her activate Broadway as Roxie Hart in “Chicago,” and her cameo within the 1983 video of Joel’s “Uptown Girl,” a prime 10 hit extensively related together with her. (Joel has cited Brinkley and fellow supermodel Elle McPherson as inspirations.)

Brinkley has been married 4 instances, most just lately to Peter Cook, whom she divorced in 2008. According to Harper Influence, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, she’s going to replicate on “her whirlwind career, her four tumultuous marriages — including her heartbreaking divorce from Billy Joel — and the harrowing experiences (a 1994 helicopter crash) that almost cut her life short.”

“In ‘Uptown Girl,’ she chronicles the unexpected, unexplainable ways her life has unfolded,” Tuesday’s announcement continues, “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, riding horses with cowboys, training with world-champion boxers, and even stepping into the spotlight on Broadway.”

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