Christie Brinkleyisn’t letting her recent injury get her down.On Wednesday, the supermodel was all smiles as she was seen arriving at theDancing with the Starsstudio in Los Angeles to supporther daughter Sailor, whotook her placeon the show after she fell and broke her arm during rehearsals last week.Brinkley, 65, grinned and crossed fingers for photographers before entering the studio, where she spent some time with Sailor, 21, and her pro partnerVal Chmerkovskiywhile they rehearsed for next week’s performance.SplashSplashIn anemotional interview with PEOPLEon Monday, Brinkley described the painful fall.“The second I landed, I felt the shards in my arm,” she said between sobs. “Like, I literally felt it in my wrist, and I just instantly looked up and said, ‘I’m so sorry, I broke my arm.'”“There’s a little bone at the thumb that usually posts one way,” she added. “Mine was in the opposite direction. Then there was bone, just it, it was just shattered into a thousand little pieces, just a million little pieces.”Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Christie Brinkley, and Sailor Brinkley-Cook.Allen Berezovsky/GettyEric McCandless/ABCWhile supporting Sailor at theDWTSpremiere that night, Brinkley said her doctor called it “one of the worst breaks” he’s ever seen.“I managed to break both bones,” she said. “And they had to cut it open, put a metal plate in and some screws, so I’m a bionic woman now.”Dancing with the Starsairs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.
Christie Brinkleyisn’t letting her recent injury get her down.
On Wednesday, the supermodel was all smiles as she was seen arriving at theDancing with the Starsstudio in Los Angeles to supporther daughter Sailor, whotook her placeon the show after she fell and broke her arm during rehearsals last week.
Brinkley, 65, grinned and crossed fingers for photographers before entering the studio, where she spent some time with Sailor, 21, and her pro partnerVal Chmerkovskiywhile they rehearsed for next week’s performance.
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In anemotional interview with PEOPLEon Monday, Brinkley described the painful fall.
“The second I landed, I felt the shards in my arm,” she said between sobs. “Like, I literally felt it in my wrist, and I just instantly looked up and said, ‘I’m so sorry, I broke my arm.'”
“There’s a little bone at the thumb that usually posts one way,” she added. “Mine was in the opposite direction. Then there was bone, just it, it was just shattered into a thousand little pieces, just a million little pieces.”
Valentin Chmerkovskiy, Christie Brinkley, and Sailor Brinkley-Cook.Allen Berezovsky/Getty
Eric McCandless/ABC
While supporting Sailor at theDWTSpremiere that night, Brinkley said her doctor called it “one of the worst breaks” he’s ever seen.
“I managed to break both bones,” she said. “And they had to cut it open, put a metal plate in and some screws, so I’m a bionic woman now.”
Dancing with the Starsairs Mondays (8 p.m. ET) on ABC.
source: people.com
