Christie Brinkley revealed she often spots her daughter, Sailor Brinkley-Cook, wearing items from her wardrobe on Instagram.
Christie Brinkley regularly monitors her daughter’s Instagram account to catch her for secretly borrowing her clothes.
The 72-year-old star does not let Sailor, 27, raid her closet, but the mini-me – who is following in Christie’s modelling footsteps – does it anyway.
Sailor told E! News: “She doesn’t let me take anything. I take things no matter what.”
Laughing, Christie added: “I’m always looking on her Instagram and going, ‘That’s where those pants went. Oh, that’s where that jacket is.'”
Sailor joked: “Girl’s got to do what a girl’s got to do.”
Christie – who is also mom to Alexa, 40, whom she has with her ex-husband, singer Billy Joel, 76, and Jack, 30, with her 78-year-old ex-spouse, real estate entrepreneur Richard Taubman – loves giving Sailor modelling advice.
The National Lampoon’s Vacation star said: “She’s out there and she’s doing things – all the cool things. And she knows what’s happening right now.”
And in return, Sailor gives her mom lectures on how to use social media.
She said: “I’m teaching her TikTok basically. Social media, TikTok, posting, being more on Instagram.”
However, the model tries not to get “too involved” with helping Christie – who has Sailor with her 67-year-old ex-husband, architect Peter Cook – navigate the different social media platforms.
Sailor explained: “I like to leave her be because I think there’s something so beautiful about the way that she interacts with social media. It’s so cute and innocent, so I try not to intervene too much.”
In August 2025, Christie told how Sailor helped her set up a dating profile to find a potential partner, but was shocked to find they were being paired with the same people.
Speaking to 61-year-old actress Kristin Davis on her Are You a Charlotte? podcast, the blonde beauty said: “She wanted to see what kind of guys [would match] … and she put me up there … and she said, ‘Mom, you’re right not to go on it, because the same guys that said yes to me, are saying yes to you.'”
Kristin replied: “Smart Sailor, that is a really fascinating little experiment.”
Christie speculated on the type of guys who were matching with both her and Sailor, suggesting they were just looking for a woman who would be “impressed” by their choices.
She said: “I find that what men like to do is to find somebody that’ll be impressed by every little thing that they do. Like, ‘Oh really, oh, you’re taking me to that restaurant.’”
Christie Brinkley monitors daughter’s social media to catch her for secretly borrowing her clothes
