Christie Brinkley commends model daughter for promoting healthy body image
Former supermodel Christie Brinkley is proud of her model daughter for actively promoting a healthy body image in the fashion industry.
The blonde beauty's 16-year-old daughter Sailor Cook has decided to follow in her famous mum's footsteps and embark on a career as a model, a passion Brinkley strongly supports, but she is well aware of the negative ramifications that can come with being in a tough industry.
Brinkley feared Sailor could fall victim to the trend of models
with unhealthy thin frames, telling newswoman Meredith Vieira, "I
went to the (New York) fashion shows recently and I could not
believe how skinny the models were. When I went to the modeling
agency with my daughter, I saw the girls so, so, so skinny and I
just said to Sailor, 'You're not going to go there. Either the
business comes to you and you represent health or you don't need to
do that.'"
Brinkley knows she doesn't have to worry about her daughter taking
unnecessary measures to fit the industry's "standard" small size,
adding, "When she first started (modeling) she had lost weight
gradually over time and she reached a point where she got some jobs
as a model and then at other jobs, the other girls were so much
thinner. Then she would call me and I'd say, 'Don't panic. That's
why they can split open the pants in the back if they need to!'
"But she did start to lose a little too much weight, but she caught
it herself and she's so smart and so strong. She's very empowering
for girls her age."