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Brinkley was involved in minor incident while trying to save a bird during a family vacation to Parrot Cay in Turks and Caicos over the Easter weekend.

• Apr 8, 2015

AceShowbiz - Christie Brinkley injured herself during a family vacation to Parrot Cay in Turks and Caicos over the Easter weekend for trying to save a bird. The 61-year-old model got a black eye and stitches from the incident and shared some graphic photos of her injury on Instagram.

"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," so Brinkley captioned her post. She went on, "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! @artminster #grateful #thankful #itcouldhavebeenworse! #youneverknow #liveachday."

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! @artminster #grateful #thankful #itcouldhavebeenworse! #youneverknow #liveachday

A photo posted by Christie Brinkley (@christiebrinkley) on Apr 6, 2015 at 11:34am PDT

Despite her injury, Brinkley managed to still have some fun during the holiday. She shared plenty of photos from her beach-filled getaway.

I may be CONCHED out lol, but My Little Moonbeam Alexa Ray glows in the Sunshine!

A photo posted by Christie Brinkley (@christiebrinkley) on Apr 6, 2015 at 4:22pm PDT

Each Sunset is to be Savored! Skirt by @camillawithlove hat @noraandbella keeps the sunset off my rainbow eye.. It's very colorful but the swelling is going down, still tender, headachy, but I am oh so grateful as I am well aware of how lucky I was after such a blow to have my brain still be as silly as ever and I am also so appreciative of all your kind well wishes! Thank you !

A photo posted by Christie Brinkley (@christiebrinkley) on Apr 7, 2015 at 4:19pm PDT