Christie Brinkley, 70, reveals the secret trick she uses to feel sexy - as she pays homage to her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit covers in a glamorous new shoot

Christie Brinkley has revealed her elemental instrumentality for emotion sexy and empowered - arsenic good arsenic nan amazingly elemental self-care regular she has adhered to for decades.

The legendary model, 70, shared her tips successful a glamorous caller screen question and reply for nan July rumor of Hamptons' magazine, Social Life, successful which she gave a motion to her days arsenic a Sports Illustrated star by stripping down to a achromatic swimsuit.

'I’ve decided to return disconnected my glasses, and I promote others to do nan same,' she said. 

'When I put connected a small constitution aliases moreover erstwhile I look astatine my Instagram, I make judge my glasses are disconnected because I don’t request to overthink aliases knock each small detail. Who has clip for that?'

The erstwhile model, who made her first quality successful nan Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue backmost successful 1975 earlier gracing nan screen successful 1979, 1980 and 1981, besides explained really taking nan clip to overgarment her toenails reddish is an important portion of her self-care routine.

'I for illustration taking nan times to do my ain nails,' she said. 'My toes are ever red. The shadiness of reddish changes, but nan colour doesn't.

'I usually don't fuss doing my hands because I'll conscionable messiness them up successful nan garden. That's why I instrumentality pinch my toes.'

Gardening is different cardinal instrumentality that Brinkley uses to adjutant her beingness and intelligence wellbeing.

'That really is my self-care,' she said. 'I put connected my oversize chapeau and get my hands dirty. Connecting pinch quality makes maine consciousness for illustration me.'

As for immoderate blameworthy pleasures that besides thief assistance her temper erstwhile needed, nan writer added: 'Hot chocolate. I emotion making nan full family basking chocolate.' 

In caller months Brinkley has been unfastened pinch fans astir nan value of looking aft yourself aft sharing news of her tegument crab diagnosis backmost successful March.

She explained connected Instagram that doctors had recovered a basal compartment carcinoma, 1 of nan astir communal types of skin cancer, connected nan precocious near broadside of her face.

Brinkley added nan doctor's were speedy to region nan crab arsenic she stated: 'They took attraction of it, and luckily, my hairsbreadth grows successful that direction, but nan scar is hardly noticeable.'

According to nan American Cancer Society, basal compartment carcinoma is simply a type of tegument crab that originates successful basal cells, recovered successful nan outer later of nan skin. 

Typically basal compartment carcinomas create successful parts of nan tegument often exposed to sunlight, particularly nan face. They thin to turn slow and do not often dispersed to different parts of nan body. 

The supermodel went connected to counsel viewers to deterioration sunscreen and hats while stepping retired successful nan sun this summer.

Months later, she recalled really the basal compartment carcinoma had been caught by chance when she decided to join one of her daughters during a dermatology appointment. 

Once there, she asked her daughter's expert if he could look astatine her look and that is erstwhile he spotted nan cancer.

'I wasn't moreover scheduled for a check-up, I was accompanying my girl to nan dermatologist,' she told nan Today show.

'I was successful nan room, and he had this small magnifying solid out, and he's looking astatine a mates of things that she was worried about.'

She continued: 'I thought, "There is that small spot correct connected nan broadside of my caput correct here.... Should I opportunity anything? It's not my appointment". Right astatine nan very end... I said, "Before you put that away, do you deliberation you could conscionable look astatine this?"

'The expert past said, "We've sewage to do a biopsy immediately. This is something." Then nan biopsy came backmost (as) cancer.' 

The mother-of-three shares girl Sailor, 26, and boy Jack, 29, pinch ex-husband Peter Cook. 

She besides has a daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, 38, pinch her different ex-husband Billy Joel. 

The family members were precocious pictured together arsenic they celebrated Sailor's 26th day pinch an Italian-themed bash successful their Hamptons home.