Christie Brinkley is ringing in 2021 with a new hip! The 66-year-old model took to her Instagram on Tuesday (January 5) to reveal that she recently got her hip replaced, 26 years after a helicopter crash in Colorado back in 1994. “New Year, New Hip!
Yes that’s a band aid on my hip,” Christie wrote along with photos from a recent snorkeling trip. “I injured my hip in a back country skiing helicopter crash on a mountaintop in Telluride many years ago.
The pain in my hip got a little bit worse each year. 12 years ago I was told it needed to be replaced but the surgery was daunting !
And I had things to do!” Christie was finally able to have some free time because of the pandemic, so she decided to get her hip replaced around Thanksgiving in
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