Christie Brinkley at 60 puts our "Swimsuit at 50" celebration to shame

SI Staff | Jan 28, 2014

3/8/82 :: Christie's first appearance on PEOPLE's cover was an inset, proving that there's no competing with the Selleck stache.

11/1/82 :: Ditto for "America's Favorite Pussonality."

1/16/84: Christie's appearance on the cover of the politically themed issue was strictly a modeling gig.

5/8/95 :: They met on the set of Joel's Uptown Girl video, and though they split in '94 they remain close.

4/18/94 :: She and friend Ricky Taubman crashed while heli-skiing in Telluride. Christie told PEOPLE, "All of a sudden I said, 'Alexa...I am her mother, and she needs me. I am not going to die. I refuse. I won't.'

1/9/95 :: The traumatic crash brought Christie and Ricky closer, but their subsequent marriage was short-lived.