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Christie Brinkley is opening up about her recent brush with cancer, revealing that she was diagnosed with skin cancer on her face by happenstance when she accompanied her daughter to a dermatologist appointment.

Appearing on the Today show, the septuagenarian model explained how she was with Alexa — her 38-year-old daughter with her first husband, singer Billy Joel — earlier this year when the cancer was first spotted. 

“I was in the room, and he had this little magnifying glass out, and he’s looking at a couple of things that she was worried about,” Brinkley said.  “I thought, ‘There is that little spot right on the side of my head right here.

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… Should I say anything? It’s not my appointment.’”

Brinkley said that it was at the last second that she asked the doctor to have a quick peek at the spot. “He looked and he goes, ‘We’ve got to do a biopsy immediately.

This is something.’ Then the biopsy came b

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