Brinkley writes in her memoir that it started out as a song for a "mystery girl" Joel had been having phone conversations with, but when his relationship with Brinkley began, he finished it in her honor. Their relationship was then immortalized in the hit song's iconic music video, in which Brinkley appears in.

Model Christie Brinkley has been married four times and starred in the music video for her then-boyfriend Billy Joel's hit song 'Uptown Girl'

Christie Brinkley says 'booze was the other woman' in her marriage to Billy Joel: 'He preferred to be with 'her' rather than with me.'