Christie Brinkley Admits She's A 'fool For Love' Despite Four Failed Marriages

Christie Brinkley is nary alien to love.

The legendary supermodel, who has been joined 4 times, admitted she's a "fool for love" successful a candid caller question and reply pinch nan New York Times. In her speech pinch nan outlet, she said successful item astir her divorces, and whether she's consenting to unfastened her bosom again.

"I’m excessively trusting," she admitted erstwhile asked astir what she's learned from her marriages. "I’m a fool for love. That emotion takes work. Sometimes you request to trust connected experts. I wish I could person recovered ways to prevention some; I wish I hadn’t joined others."

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Christie Brinkley called herself a "fool for love" erstwhile discussing her past relationships. (Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)

Brinkley's first hubby was creator Jean-François Allaux – nan 2 wed successful 1975, erstwhile she was 21 years old. They divided successful 1981, and 4 years later she joined Billy Joel. Brinkley and Joel divided successful 1994, and that aforesaid twelvemonth she joined existent property developer Richard Taubman. She divided him a twelvemonth later, and a twelvemonth aft that she joined designer Peter Cook. She was pinch him until their contentious divorcement was finalized successful 2008.

She told nan New York Times, "I ever believed successful psyche mates. I thought I had 4 of them. Now I’m not sure. Maybe I had my 2 psyche mates pinch Jean and Billy. Maybe I rushed retired of my matrimony to Jean. Maybe I should person tried to make it activity longer pinch Billy. I did commencement to wonderment if possibly it’s maine – if I was unlovable."

Christie Brinkley, pictured successful Vogue successful 1977, became a exemplary aft moving to Paris successful nan '70s to go an artist. (Stan Malinowski/Condé Nast via Getty Images)

When asked, she clarified, "I’m not unlovable, but nan relationships I was successful made maine consciousness unloved. I person capable self-esteem to cognize that successful nan correct arms, I’m lovable. And I wasn’t loved correctly. One loved my money much than me. Another loved his portion much than me. Another loved young women much than me. And successful my first one, I loved my state much than him."

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Her first husband, Allaux, was nan 1 she said she near for her "freedom." She said that pinch him, it was "love astatine first sight," and while their matrimony was successful for years, it was a "slow dissolve." 

"I sewage joined excessively young. I started to consciousness constrained and regretted being tied down," she admitted.

Brinkley met her first hubby erstwhile she was 19. (Fairchild Archive/Penske Media via Getty Images)

In her precocious released memoir, "Uptown Girl," Brinkley explained that she'd met Allaux erstwhile she was conscionable 19 years old. She'd moved to Paris to go an creator and met him soon after, and aft six years of marriage, she wrote, "I started to wonderment what other – and who other – mightiness beryllium retired there."

In nan clip since she'd met him, she'd "changed considerably, transforming from a woman from Malibu bound for Paris pinch only a backpack, paints and bohemian ideals to a apical exemplary pinch 2 mortgages, an endless zeal for adventure, and 1 large career."

Joel is nan ex-husband she claimed "loved his portion much than me" – nan vocalist has been unfastened astir his past struggles pinch addiction, and Brinkley wrote successful her memoir that "booze was nan different woman." She said of their marriage, "When you go nan bad cop, it’s over. If we had been older erstwhile it happened, possibly we could person figured it out."

Joel and Brinkley were joined for 9 years. (Sonia Moskowitz/Images/Getty Images)

In an April question and reply pinch Today.com, Brinkley explained that her narration pinch Joel was nan astir difficult to constitute astir successful her memoir because they're still friends, but she said he gave her his blessing.

"He said, 'Just opportunity what you request to say,'" Brinkley said. "And I deliberation that's portion of his healing, truthful I applaud him for each of that. It takes a batch of courage."

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Joel wrote "Uptown Girl" successful grant of Brinkley. (Arnal/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

As for nan ex who "loved my money much than me," Brinkley referred to 3rd hubby Taubman. "Ricky was a larger-than-life characteristic who joined maine for my money," she claimed. "Our narration was analyzable by nan truth that I was pregnant, and I wanted to make nan correct decisions. The narration came connected nan heels of my divorce from Billy, which I was devastated about."

In "Uptown Girl," she wrote that aft their boy Jack was born, she had a convention pinch her therapist and made nan prime to springiness their matrimony 1 much shot. She took Jack from New York, wherever she'd delivered nan baby, backmost location to Taubman successful Colorado, and she claimed that erstwhile she arrived, he asked her for money.

Brinkley, pictured pinch 3rd hubby Richard Taubman successful 1994, claimed he joined her for her money. (Getty Images)

"That’s erstwhile I knew that this was not nor could it ever beryllium emotion aliases moreover a existent relationship: it was usership, manipulation, and astatine its worst, affectional torture," she wrote. "I booked a formation backmost to New York."

When she arrived, she said Taubman called her and told her "I'm going to locomotion distant from you and nan baby" conscionable for illustration her biologic begetter did to her. After that telephone call, she revenge for divorce.

Finally, nan 1 who "loved young women much than me" refers to Cook, who had an affair while joined to Brinkley. "I was joined to a alien who had different lives. I had 3 children. I wanted to protect them from nan fallout and from their life being blown apart. The divorcement lasted for years. It was agonizing."

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Brinkley and Cook sewage divided aft he admitted to cheating connected her pinch his 18-year-old assistant. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)

Brinkley revenge for divorcement from Cook successful 2006 aft uncovering retired that he'd been having an matter pinch his teenage assistant. The divorcement proceedings took spot successful unfastened court, and astatine 1 constituent successful her testimony, she sobbed, saying, "I felt for illustration nan man who I was surviving with, I conscionable didn't cognize who he was... anymore. Who is he? Who is this man who comes down and sits astatine nan eating room array and acts for illustration he's been astatine work?" per ABC News.

In her memoir, she called her narration pinch Cook "one of nan astir tormented experiences I’ve ever had."

Brinkley went done a long, very nationalist divorcement pinch Cook. (Gary Gershoff/WireImage via Getty Images)

Brinkley is simply a mother of three: daughters Alexa Ray, who she shares pinch Joel, and Sailor, who she shares pinch Cook, arsenic good arsenic boy Jack, who she had pinch Taubman but who was later adopted by Cook.

The exemplary confessed nan point she regrets astir is "Not being capable to beryllium pinch an unfastened photograph medium pinch my hubby and go, ‘Look, retrieve this? Remember nan kids?’"

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Despite everything, Brinkley admitted to nan New York Times that she's still unfastened to nan thought of uncovering a partner.

Brinkley said that contempt nan difficult times she's knowledgeable successful relationships, she would get progressive romantically pinch personification again "because I judge successful love." (XNY/Star Max/GC Images)

"Everything I’ve been through, each nan pain, nan stupidity, I would do it again because I judge successful love," she shared. "I deliberation it would beryllium sad not to. I’m not judge I want to springiness up nan state I person now. It gets harder to meet group and harder to trust. It would return a typical personification to get maine to want to stock my life. I person made bid without having it. I person been making it done without a man for a batch of years. I don’t request a personification to make maine happy. I’m happy."

She added, "But I person so overmuch happiness successful me, I would emotion to stock it pinch personification I love."

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