Christie Brinkley Says She’s Only Had Botox Done Once and It Was a ‘Bad Experience’
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Christie Brinkley revealed she’s only gotten Botox once.
“[I] had a bad experience with it and I never did it again,” she said.
Instead, she uses filler, laser treatments, and facial sculpting wands to maintain a youthful look at 67.
At 67, Christie Brinkley is looking better than ever, which is why most people probably assume she’s constantly getting Botox—but in a new interview on The Tamron Hall Show, the former supermodel confirmed that it just isn’t for her.
“I don’t Botox. I like the movement. I like to be able to have expression and move my face,” she explained. “I only did Botox once and had a bad experience with it and I never did it again.”
But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t indulged in other cosmetic procedures to keep her skin looking fresh. She told Hall that she has gotten some filler. (If you’re not familiar with the difference, Botox is injected into the muscles around wrinkles to relax them, whereas filler is a synthetic material that simply fills the imprint left by a wrinkle, according to the American Academy of Dermatology.)
“I don’t do anything to change my look, but if there’s something that bothers me,” the beauty guru told Hall, she’s not afraid to fix it. That’s where the filler came in, especially after she noticed a piece of skin near her mouth that would “create a little pouch” when she smiled.
“It created a little pillow there that I personally didn’t like,” she said. So a dermatologist injected “a tiny drop of filler” and just like that, it was gone. In the past, she’s also admitted to undergoing laser and skin-tightening treatments. But when it comes to her forehead and neck, she swears by SBLA’s sculpting wands, which is why she’s an ambassador for the brand.
Some might see Brinkley’s choice to reverse signs of aging as disingenuous, but that’s never been her intention. “I’m aging at my own pace,” she told Hall. “And I love that today, we can choose how we want to age.”
Ahead of her 67th birthday, she wrote on Instagram that she was turning “50 for the 17th time,” but in reality, the number holds no real significance in her mind. “The number is completely irrelevant to me,: she said. “I don’t think about it. I don’t let it limit me or have any influence on me whatsoever.”
After all, beauty industry leaders told her that by age 30, she would be “chewed up and spit out”—essentially, that she would expire. But it’s safe to say that she’s proven them totally wrong.
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