Christie Brinkley Shows Us How To Forgive the ‘Other Woman’

Christie Brinkley, who’s currently going through a very public divorce from her cheating, porn-obsessed husband Peter Cook, recently told People that she “feels bad” for the 21-year-old girl Cook had an affair with, and “forgive[s] her completely.”

The reason this is noteworthy? Because women have a tendency to blame the chick their significant other had an affair with, rather than the significant other themselves. How many of you (and I’m sorry, by the way, if you understand what I’m talking about) have felt the burn of a cheater, only to turn around and have homicidal thoughts about the person the love of your life cheated on you with? I’ll cut that bitch, you think, while tearfully trying to figure out how to convince your cheating bf or spouse back into your life.

I’m sure there’s lot of scientific evidence as to why women usually hate on the O.W (Other Woman) more than their partner, but in my opinion, it all filters down to female competitiveness and self-loathing masked by rage. Like the gossip mags (mostly read by women) that spend pages ragging on celebrity cellulite and sagging stomaches, most of us find it easier to go after a target we don’t know, rather than A) a person we do know, or B) ourselves.

So, disregarding whatever mud she slings later on, I have to applaud Brinkley for placing blame where the blame is really meant to placed — her husband (and father of her three children) — rather than on the idiot girl who had nothing to lose by having sex with him. Was the 21-year-old O.W being selfish when she began an affair with a married man? Of course. But what matters most is that she was pursued by someone twenty years her senior, who not only knew better, but had other people in his life he was responsible for.