Overview

• Brinkley outlined her plan on Kristin Davis’s Are You a Charlotte? podcast by suggesting that at each five-year anniversary couples decide whether to renew their marriage
• Drawing on her four past marriages detailed in her memoir Uptown Girl, she questioned the relevance of lifelong vows in a world where personal goals and circumstances change
• She cited episodes of infidelity and recovery—most notably her 12-year marriage to Peter Cook ending after his affair—as lessons for adopting fixed-term commitments
• The proposal has prompted widespread media discussion over modernizing the traditional “until death do us part” promise
• Despite advocating structural reform, Brinkley told Fox News earlier this year that she still believes “love is the strongest thing in the whole world”