Christie Brinkley’s brief brush with online dating didn’t come from her looking for love — it came from her daughter deciding to stir the pot.
Brinkley said she isn’t on dating apps, but her daughter Sailor Brinkley-Cook secretly set up a profile for her under a different name just to see what would happen. The profile was only live for about an hour, but that was long enough for it to deliver a result Brinkley described as instantly off-putting.
The “gross discovery,” according to Brinkley, was what Sailor noticed almost immediately: many of the same men who had liked Sailor’s dating profile also liked Brinkley’s profile — despite a roughly 44-year age gap between them. Brinkley began to repeat what her daughter told her — essentially, that she was right not to be on the apps, before revealing the punchline that made both her and podcast host Kristin Davis react with disgust.
Brinkley shared the story during an appearance on Davis’ podcast Are You a Charlotte?, while they were talking about dating and age dynamics, including a Sex and the City storyline about an older partner. Her point wasn’t that she’s surprised men find her attractive; it was that the app behavior felt like a red flag, the kind of swipe-everything, chase-anything pattern that makes dating apps feel less like connection and more like a numbers game.
The moment is also landing while Brinkley promotes her memoir, Uptown Girl, where she reflects on her life, relationships, and past marriages. The dating-app story plays into the larger theme she’s been discussing publicly: modern dating can be weird, impersonal, and occasionally grim, and sometimes it only takes an hour to confirm why you’ve avoided it.
