Christie Brinkley, 71, and daughter Sailor, 27, matched with the same men on dating app
Brinkley, 71, revealed that her 27-year-old daughter Sailor Brinkley Cook once put her on dating app for an hour without her knowing — and to both their surprise, they had mutual matches.
The titbit came out during Brinkley's discussion with Sex and the City star Kristin Davis on the 'Are You A Charlotte?' podcast.
Davis noted that there was an 'extreme dichotomy' between men and women over 50 when it comes to dating, sharing that the men won't date women their own age, even though the women are beautiful and accomplished.
In response, Brinkley — who's currently not on any dating apps — shared the result of Sailor's 'mischievous' experiment on the unnamed platform.
'She wanted to see what kind of guys [would match] … and she put me up there … and she said, 'Mum, you're right not to go on it, because the same guys that said yes to me, are saying yes to you',' Brinkley said.
Davis reacted with shock and delight.
'Wow!' she responded in disbelief. 'Smart Sailor, that is a really fascinating little experiment.'
Brinkley is a mum to three children: Alexa, 39, whom she shares with ex-husband Billy Joel; son Jack, 30, whom she shares with ex-husband Richard Taubman; and daughter Sailor, whom she shares with ex-husband Peter Cook.
The iconic model has been married four times — Francois Allaux from 1973 to 1981, Joel from 1985 to 1994, Taubman from 1994 to 1995 and Cook from 1996 to 2008.
In her recent memoir Uptown Girl, Brinkley recalled feeling devastated after finding out Cook had been unfaithful. She recalled the moment when a Hamptons police officer told her that her 'arrogant husband' was having an affair with his teenage daughter.
'When your whole world falls apart and you realise in a heartbeat you've suddenly become the cliche middle-aged woman whose husband is having an affair with a much (much) younger woman, what do you do?' the actress wrote in her book, which was released on April 29.
Brinkley and Cook, 57, split after 10 years of marriage following the affair.
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