Christie Brinkley Says a Total Hip Replacement Transformed Her Fitness Routine at 66

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“I am getting stronger every day.”

nears her 67th birthday on Feb. 2, the model and actress is reflecting on how she’s been feeling. She says she’s “getting stronger every day,” but it took some time to find a fitness routine that truly worked for her.

“I love birthdays! I just don’t like the numbers, so I pretty much ignore them. I never felt as old as the number anyway ...until this year,” she wrote in anBrinkley explained that she was unable to do her usual yoga poses, planks, and push-ups after breaking her right arm and dealing with injuries to her shoulder and hip. As the years went by, she started to feel “limited, restricted, and dare I say...

This content is imported from Instagram. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.Then, the pandemic hit. Like so many of us who were suddenly confined to our homes, Brinkley said she wasn’t getting the exercise she was used to and felt “overwhelmed” by her injuries. “With quarantine came banana breads and the inevitable extra pounds,” she wrote.

So, she decided to take action and get her hip fixed with a total replacement. “I am overjoyed to be able to move my body again,” she wrote. “I am getting stronger every day, and I like think I’m ready for anything...a hike, swim dive, paddle, ride, ski, and even a big piece of birthday cake!”

 

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