The Christie Brinkley Secret to Staying Young After Age 67? Gratitude

More than 40 Years ago, Christie Brinkley was warned, “by the time you’re 30, you’ll be chewed up and spit out.”

Supermodel Christie Brinkley winds up to throw an autographed football into the audience during a United Service Organizations (USO) show in the Eagle Sports Complex at Tuzla Air Base, Bosnia, and Herzegovina, on Dec. 22, 1999. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Christie Brinkley, still as stunning at 67 as she was in her “glory days” of modeling in the 1980s, says the ultimate beauty tip is to focus on “gratitude.”

She’s now been on magazine covers for nearly five decades. Everyone asks, “how do you do it? What’s the secret?” Food? Products? Exercises? She says the attitude of gratitude, being grateful, trumps everything else.

Christie Brinkley in 2007. Photo by David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.

“Every day, I count my blessings,” Brinkley told CNBC Make It. “Because some days can be better days than others, but by the time I finish counting my blessings, I feel like it’s a pretty good day.”

Saying she recently turned “50 for the 17th time,” Brinkley once tried and rejected Botox years ago (it was a disaster that kept her out of work for three months).

“Choose to trust God and to be at peace. Replace panic with praise and worry with worship,” she argues. “Adopting a really positive attitude can work…