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How Christie Brinkley Fell for Billy Joel: 'I Found Myself Undeniably Attracted to This Physically Hot and Charismatic Man' (Exclusive)

In her exciting new memoir 'Uptown Girl,' out April 29, Christie Brinkley details her relationship with Billy Joel and how they were like "two teenagers in love." For a PEOPLE cover story, she shares the whole tale.

She describes their memorable meeting in her exciting new memoir, Uptown Girl, excerpted in this week's PEOPLE, which details her difficult childhood, five-decade modeling career and tumultuous romantic life — including falling "hopelessly in love" with the piano man. “The man was sunburned to a crisp, his face the same color as cranberries and unctuous with oil, which he’d undoubtedly slathered on to soothe the burn, topped by what I like to call ‘the Long Island bubble:' a carapace of curly shellacked hair popular in the 1980s in parts of suburban New York,” Brinkley, 71, writes in the book. Whenever Billy and I dressed up, we liked to re-create the "taffeta, darling" scene from Mel Brooks's movie Young Frankenstein, even doing so the night we were married in Manhattan in March 1985.Patrick Demarchelier/Trunk Archive

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