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There's a meme that sometimes goes around the internet about bikini bodies. Its premise is, do you have a body? Well, then you have a bikini body.

Which is all well and good and empowering enough if we narrow our gaze a bit and block out all the messages that women receive that their body maybe shouldn't be seen in public because um, did you see Lady Gaga's fat roll at the Super Bowl the other day? Gross, right. But we know that there are bikini bodies and there are bikini bodies. Like Baywatch bodies. Or Sports Illustrated bodies.

Some people's body is their career, their defining characteristic. Like a surgeon has their hands (and brains) and Sean Spicer chews and swallows 35 pieces of chewing gum a day. Defining. Which brings me to Christie Brinkley's bikini body. Brinkley first appeared on the cover of the magazine in 1979. Now she's back in the pages of the magazine, aged 63, wearing a cut-out swimsuit. This is still enough to make a headline. See what we mean about bikini bodies? People sure do have a lot of thoughts on them, even though technically everybody has one and it shouldn't be a big deal.

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Anyway, there's a few things going on with how we think about Brinkley's bikini body. Firstly, it's great that older women are being celebrated in fashion and beauty and as women to be admired.

In recent years we've seen the likes of Joan Didion, 82, front a fashion campaign for Celine, Helen Mirren is a L'Oreal woman and Linda Rodin, 66, the beautiful model-turned-stylist who created a cult beauty label in Rodin Olio Lusso is total catnip for glossy magazines and street style blogs. 

Despite the women featured being total badasses, there's also a whiff of tokenism. As Hannah Marriott wrote in The Guardian about the rise of older women in advertising campaigns, "While buzz beats invisibility, why aren't there more representations of age in fashion and less fuss?" 

And invisibility is really a thing. Look at how Brinkley captioned her Instagram reveal of her shoot,

  Yes! I am excited to announce that I am back in @si_swimsuit ..I figured with my gorgeous daughters @alexarayjoel and @sailorbrinkleycook by my side whose going to be looking at me! Oh and My kids think I walk on water, so let's not mention the apple box concealed just under the surface. For a preview check out @people.com ..and thank you Sports Illustrated for sending the powerful message that good things come in packages of every size and we do not come with an expiration date!