Christie Brinkley Injured Trying to Save Bird

She suffered a black eye and a deep cut under her left eyebrow. “We interrupt this holiday to take a little unplanned excursion to Miami for cat scans and stitches following an accident trying to save a bird,” Brinkley, 61, posted on Instagram with photos of her injury. She traveled by boat and plane to be treated at the University of Miami Hospital. In response to Instagram comments, she later clarified, “THE bird did NOT do this to me!!!! I did this to myself trying to help the bird! The birds here are super sweet!!!” She explained she had to go to Miami so a cosmetic surgeon could treat her to “minimize scarring.” She later posted photos saying she was back at a Parrot Cay resort in Turks and Caicos, where she’s staying with her daughter, Alexa Ray Joel

We interrupt this holiday to take a little unplanned excursion to Miami for cat scans and stitches following an accident trying to save a bird. My grateful heartfelt thanks go out to our wonderful Parrot Cay Family who got me to the boat and plane, and my friends in Miami who found my A Team at University of Miami Hospital led by Dr Askari and his professional caring and adorable team and to my bestie @artminster who spent her much needed and deserved holiday by my bedside .. I ca't possibly thank you enough and I offer you a pain check .. I mean rain check! Lol!

Brinkley is now out of the hospital and back to vacationing in Turks and Caicos, posting a photo of the beach to announce her return. "I'm back in Parrot Cay and is it my imagination (or the bump on my head ?) that has me seeing the clouds as B A E (before anything else) which is reserved for very special sweet people like all of you who wrote such kind well wishes," Brinkley wrote in the post.