Christie Brinkley is known as a supermodel who’s face has been featured on hundreds of fashion magazines for four decades. Now in a new book, the beauty icon is sharing her secrets for looking good, starting with healthier eating.
Brinkley talked about her new book, Timeless Beauty, in a recent interview with Fox News. At age 61, Brinkley says she wrote the book to help motivate people to lead healthier lives, especially by focusing on safer, healthier food choices.

Brinkley says she is upset with what she calls the food industry’s practices that are “blatantly disrespectful to our planet and us as individuals.” She is particularly concerned about the advent of genetically modified (GMO) foods, which have become prevalent over the last two decades. She says she is concerned about the health risks from GMOs and their potential impact on insects.

Brinkley is unhappy that GMOs are not safety tested, nor are they labeled. She feels that this makes Americans who eat them guinea pigs in a mass food experiment. Sixty-four other countries already require GMO labeling, but in the U.S., major corporations are lobbying to stop mandatory labeling.

She also notes that some scientists are concerned about the impact of GMOs on honeybees. According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the number of honey-producing colonies has dropped by more than half since 1950. Scientists say that a recent phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder is responsible for the bee declines, and some point to GMOs and their associated pesticides as a potential cause.

Monsanto, the world leader in selling GMO seeds, also sells the world’s most widely used herbicide known as Roundup. Farmers who use Monsanto’s GMO seeds can spray their crops directly with Roundup, which has led to massive use of the farm poison.

A 2014 study found that Roundup can disrupt honeybees’ learning behaviors, potentially threatening the viability of bee colonies.

In a statement to Fox News, Monsanto denied that its products had any impact on bee health.