Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley were married for nearly 10 years before their 1994 divorce
Billy Joel and ex-wife Christie Brinkley have remained on good terms in the years after their divorce.
Despite their split, the musician and the former model have kept an amicable relationship — and they’ll even cohost Christmas carol singalongs together during the holiday season. “I recognized her immediately,” Joel later told Rolling Stone. “She was more beautiful than she was in her pictures — , ‘Oh, wow, that’s Christie Brinkley. I wonder if she knows who I am.’ So I did what I call an album cover — I tried to look like me on an album cover. I gave it every angle I could. She didn’t recognize me from a hole in the wall.”'The music was the key to the introduction,' he recalled. 'She sat down and started singing, too.
'People think that because you do a job that's public, you become public property. When you start to get famous, you need a backyard, a place where you can get away from it all,' Brinkley told Sports Illustrated. 'I told one day that the second-worst thing I could think of would be to be famous and poor because then you couldn't escape to some island.
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