Christie Brinkley splits with hubby #4

[IdahoMom]

I feel terrible for Christie being humiliated this way. I have no idea what she's like to live with, but I've always thought of her as a nice and good person. I don't know what happened with her first husband and why they split but it seems as if she picks men who don't appreciate her. Billy Joel supposedly cheated on her, then she married a "fraud" (her term, IIRC) and now this . She seems like a lot of women who for whatever reason attract men who are no good. Not that she deserves it, she just seems to have bad luck with men.

I wish her and her children all the best. It will be rough for awhile but she strikes me as a "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" kind of woman.

I've always wondered how many compatible matches we all really have...I mean, is it true that there is just one true love?? If that's the case, then the odds of finding a great mate that's not already taken are pretty slim. (hands off married men!!:slap: ) How many good men are there really to go around?
And who wants to be alone the rest of their life? Maybe Christie is the marrying kind?

 

[Jules]

I've always wondered how many compatible matches we all really have...I mean, is it true that there is just one true love?? If that's the case, then the odds of minding a great mate that's not already taken are pretty slim. (hands off married men!!:slap: ) How many good men are there really to go around?
And who wants to be alone the rest of their life? Maybe Christie is the marrying kind?

I've often wondered that too - especially after my divorce MANY years ago. I can honestly say, after test driving a few in between my divorce and remarriage :innocent:, I've found my very best friend and soul mate in my current hubby. We celebrated 12 years lst Saturday. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Christie has always appeared to me to have a trusting personality. I don't know what makes me think that, but I think she is the marrying type. Look what happened with #3. She didn't know him long, got pregnant, got married and it lasted all of a few months.

 

[IdahoMom]

I've often wondered that too - especially after my divorce MANY years ago. I can honestly say, after test driving a few in between my divorce and remarriage :innocent:, I've found my very best friend and soul mate in my current hubby. We celebrated 12 years lst Saturday. :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

Christie has always appeared to me to have a trusting personality. I don't know what makes me think that, but I think she is the marrying type. Look what happened with #3. She didn't know him long, got pregnant, got married and it lasted all of a few months.

So, do you think it's ok for people to continue to remarry- I mean multiple, multiple times- like 4 or more? My Mom was married 5 times. I have been married for about 18 years, and with my husband for 20- most of my adult life. I think that I have been very fortunate.

Here is an interesting article I just ran across about men cheating on beautiful, successful women:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2210354&page=1

~snip~

July 19, 2006— At age 52, supermodel Christie Brinkley is still one of the most beautiful and most photographed women in the world, but that didn't stop her husband from apparently cheating on her....

....On the surface, it doesn't seem to make sense that a man would cheat on such a beautiful and successful woman. But experts say the reason it happens to supermodels is the same reason it happens to anyone.

"Beauty, wealth and celebrity are no guarantee against an affair," said psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall. "The best insurance policy is to be in a relationship with a man who loves you and where there's a really good attachment."

Marshall said men — especially those dating successful women — will sometimes feel a need for power.

"They'll often seek younger women where they can feel powerful and be the big cheese," she said...

~snip~

 

[kato]

So, do you think it's ok for people to continue to remarry- I mean multiple, multiple times- like 4 or more? My Mom was married 5 times. I have been married for about 18 years, and with my husband for 20- most of my adult life. I think that I have been very fortunate.

Here is an interesting article I just ran across about men cheating on beautiful, successful women:

http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2210354&page=1

~snip~

July 19, 2006— At age 52, supermodel Christie Brinkley is still one of the most beautiful and most photographed women in the world, but that didn't stop her husband from apparently cheating on her....

....On the surface, it doesn't seem to make sense that a man would cheat on such a beautiful and successful woman. But experts say the reason it happens to supermodels is the same reason it happens to anyone.

"Beauty, wealth and celebrity are no guarantee against an affair," said psychoanalyst Bethany Marshall. "The best insurance policy is to be in a relationship with a man who loves you and where there's a really good attachment."

Marshall said men — especially those dating successful women — will sometimes feel a need for power.

"They'll often seek younger women where they can feel powerful and be the big cheese," she said...

~snip~

Bethany was GMA this morning talking about it.

 

[HeartofTexas]

MasterJ: I am seriously perturbed by the fact that this girl was paid $50/hr to work at his firm. $50/hr and she was 17 or 18 years old???? GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK.

You and me both! That's just about the most absurd hourly wage for a 17 year old I think I've ever heard. I have little sympathy for a girl who was bringing in those kinds of wages, got a free car, and had to run all over town looking under rocks for her monthly $1,500 bonus. Oh, and I forgot lots of free jewelry. Sure, he may have plied her with trinkets and money, but I don't remember reading that she turned him down. And she knew from the first second that he was married. So this is no "poor pitiful Diana" story about how she was wronged... but a story of greed and infidelity and a huge sense of entitlement. It takes two to tango, and she was dancing every step of the way with him.

 

[Floh]

Christie has always appeared to me to have a trusting personality. I don't know what makes me think that, but I think she is the marrying type. Look what happened with #3. She didn't know him long, got pregnant, got married and it lasted all of a few months.

I can't find anything on the net right now but i seem to recall Christie Brinkley has supported animal rights in the past?

if this is so, i had an idea of someone else who supports animal rights who may make a suitable partner for her when she and he's ready to date again.

he had an American wife for many years too and he certainly wouldn't be after her fame or money?

she already has experience of an icon in the music business.

that's right.

Paul McCartney is now free to become an ideal mate and i think they could cheer each other right up.

you read about it here first! :crazy:

 

[IdahoMom]

You and me both! That's just about the most absurd hourly wage for a 17 year old I think I've ever heard. I have little sympathy for a girl who was bringing in those kinds of wages, got a free car, and had to run all over town looking under rocks for her monthly $1,500 bonus. Oh, and I forgot lots of free jewelry. Sure, he may have plied her with trinkets and money, but I don't remember reading that she turned him down. And she knew from the first second that he was married. So this is no "poor pitiful Diana" story about how she was wronged... but a story of greed and infidelity and a huge sense of entitlement. It takes two to tango, and she was dancing every step of the way with him.

Perfect post!!

I wonder if she looked at Christie and the kid's pictures while she was doing Peter? :loser:

 

[bakerprune64]

Perfect post!!

I wonder if she looked at Christie and the kid's pictures while she was doing Peter? :loser:

Where did her parents think the car came from? And did it never occur to her to not accept any of these gifts? TRAMP:razz:

 

[curious1]

Gosh I can't believe this story. I too love CB. The other woman...scank!! I don't like her looks at all! :loser:

Why does this seem to always happen. If you are so unhappy with your relationship, why don't you just get out! And then you can screw around!:furious:

Hear!!! Hear!!! The other girl is cute, but not ravishing and I don't believe for a minute she was 'naive'. Cook sounds like another piece of crap that didn't have the balls to say he wanted out of the marriage and had an affair. On second thought, he probably didn't want out of the marriage. He just wanted it all, hot SuperModel as a proper wife and on his arm at social functions and his little 'hottie' on the side. He knew he could not take her to social functions and be taken seriously as a business man so he had to hang onto CB. CB will be fine, his life will be in shambles, and hopefully she will be so shamed she will crawl under a rock somewhere and we won't have to listen to another J-Lo, Jessica Simpson, non singing, but looks good in almost nothing pop singer.:loser:

 

[curious1]

Oh and I have always thought that Petey looked like a frat boy that never grew up.

 

[Jules]

Christie Brinkley 'Devastated' By Husband's Affair

Blindsided by husband Peter Cook's affair with a teenager, Christie Brinkley is trying to pick up the pieces of her life – and protect her children.

"She is totally shocked and just devastated," a close friend of Brinkley's tells PEOPLE of Cook's yearlong relationship with now 19-year-old Diana Bianchi. "She has been extremely concerned about the impact of this situation on her children and felt it was very important to protect them and take them away for a little bit."

http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1216339,00.html

 

[Floh]

Christie Brinkley 'Devastated' By Husband's Affair

Blindsided by husband Peter Cook's affair with a teenager, Christie Brinkley is trying to pick up the pieces of her life – and protect her children.

"She is totally shocked and just devastated," a close friend of Brinkley's tells PEOPLE of Cook's yearlong relationship with now 19-year-old Diana Bianchi. "She has been extremely concerned about the impact of this situation on her children and felt it was very important to protect them and take them away for a little bit."

http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1216339,00.html

Why would Cook, 47, a successful architect, risk having a fling with a teenager? One friend says that he had long chafed at being known as "Mr. Brinkley. That became his identity – being her husband."

Adds another source close to the couple: "Life revolved around trying to accommodate her. He was definitely at her beck and call."


Oh boo hoo! what a piece of work!

here is a word or two from her mom:


'A no-good SOB'

Brinkley's mom attacks philandering son-in-law

"He is the guilty man here. She is fine - she is doing great," Marjorie Brinkley told Star magazine in an exclusive interview. "He's a no-good SOB. We are all completely devastated, as Christie is. It is shocking how this could happen."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/436349p-367543c.html

tell it exactly like it is! :clap:

 

[IdahoMom]

Floh-

Thanks for that article. I really hope the SOB implodes. What an idiot.

 

[HeartofTexas]

Well, I'm a little confused... according to her Mom, Christie is:

She is fine - she is doing great.

We are all completely devastated, as Christie is

So, is she doing great, or is she devastated? Myself, I would not be doing fine. It's one thing to find out your husband is a teenie-chasing, two-timing, philandering, no good piece of chit... but it's another to have the rug completely pulled out from under you and your heart broken. So there's heartbreak and there's anger, neither of which equate to doing great.

 

[Floh]

Well, I'm a little confused... according to her Mom, Christie is:


So, is she doing great, or is she devastated? Myself, I would not be doing fine. It's one thing to find out your husband is a teenie-chasing, two-timing, philandering, no good piece of chit... but it's another to have the rug completely pulled out from under you and your heart broken. So there's heartbreak and there's anger, neither of which equate to doing great.

She is fine - she is doing great = She doesn't need that chit and she's going to get through this

We are all completely devastated, as Christie is = We remain staggared at his behaviour and it's knocked us for six


maybe?

 

[HeartofTexas]

Great translation, Floh... it made me LOL. Thanks.

 

[Tom'sGirl]

From what I heard this morning on "Good Day L.A." he had been seeing another 19 year old prior to marrying Christie. So, liking the young gals isn't something that came out of the blue, he just wasn't married at the time.

I don't even know why I posted, I really don't care about this entire thing, just wanted to post what I heard

 

[Floh]

Comment:

What could Christie Brinkley have done to prevent her husband’s wandering eye?

For those of you that even thought for a second of an answer to that question... shame on you. The correct answer is: NOTHING. There was nothing she could have done to prevent such a completely idiotic act.

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=11649

Some men, huh?

 

[Floh]

From what I heard this morning on "Good Day L.A." he had been seeing another 19 year old prior to marrying Christie. So, liking the young gals isn't something that came out of the blue, he just wasn't married at the time.

I don't even know why I posted, I really don't care about this entire thing, just wanted to post what I heard

Oh yes - this is she: Samantha Cole:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=20915715

Just his type?

saw her until he went for Christie who was a better option for him . . .

he's a stupid git for jepordising it all with the teenager who has her eye to the main chance.

idjut!

***

O'REILLY: But why would she want to go on television in front of the nation and talk about this? I mean, you know, if I were her parents — I guess she lives at home, correct?
SCOTTO: She does. In fact, her parents encouraged her to speak out.
O'REILLY: Why?
SCOTTO: Because they are hoping that by her speaking out to FOX 5 it will end it.
O'REILLY: What?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,204383,00.html

What indeed?

the quest for answers as to why this tart talked on telly-vision.

[note: i have no respect for O'REILLY, it just was there.]

O'REILLY: Yes, but Rosanna, you've been around a long time. You know, you know this isn't going away. And if she goes on television and says all this stuff, it just makes it worse, I mean, as far as exposure. What her parents should have done was sent her to Portugal or someplace and got her out of there. And just didn't say anything.

SCOTTO: Well, listen, I don't think the family has the means to send her to Portugal. Her father is a police officer.

O'REILLY: Well, then she could have gotten money from the other guy, who was giving her money anyway.

***

Cook sending her to Portugal would have been a good idea for HIM.

she could have spent the rest of her life singing Fado (It is a kind of longing, and conveys a complex mixture of mainly nostalgia, but also sadness, pain, happiness and love):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fado

[actually Fado happens to be my favourite music and it would be a waste on her.]

 

[IdahoMom]

She is fine - she is doing great = She doesn't need that chit and she's going to get through this

We are all completely devastated, as Christie is = We remain staggared at his behaviour and it's knocked us for six


maybe?

I agree. I think the fine and great means "she will be fine without him".