There are those Playboy models who’s careers begin with Playboy, such as Aubrey O’Day who appears on the cover of Playboy magazine march 2009, then there are those Playboy models who’s careers end with Playboy such as Michelle Manhunt who was the army captain who appeared on the cover, and in the pictorial for February 2006 Playboy magazine, and then there are those Playboy models who are chosen for their high profile careers that just go from strength to strength. That’s certainly the case with the beautiful Uptown Girl, Christie Brinkley.

Christie’s glamour career began back in 1973 when she was spotted by American photographer Errol Sawyer in a post office in Paris. He took her first modeling pictures and introduced her to the Elite Model Management in Paris. Brinkley stated later: “I was basically a surfer girl from California. I never looked like a model’.

By 1983 the leggy blonde had met the man she was to call her second husband, Billy Joel. The two married in 1985 but sadly divorced but not before having produced two children.

It was during this period of her life that Brinkley broke into movies with an appearance in the comedy National Lampoon’s Vacation as “The girl in the red Ferrari” opposite Chevy Chase; she reprised that role in the 1997 sequel Vegas Vacation.

Along with movies came television roles. Brinkley hosted Celebrity Weddings InStyle, the highest rated special in Lifetime’s history, and her appearance on NBC’s Mad About You was the broadcaster’s highest rated half-hour episode since the finale of The Cosby Show. Brinkley can now be seen promoting home fitness equipment sold on cable TV infomercials.