Christie: I’m in no rush to have kids, but I’m thinking about it more and more because my friends are dropping like flies. We’ll probably be the last of our group and that’s fine. I’m 32, so I’ve got another year to say, ‘Let’s wait another year’ - and we’re having the time of our lives right now.
Christie: (on her favourite travel destinations) The one that sticks out the most was Croatia. I fell in love with the whole package. The architecture, the food, the people, and the water were all gorgeous. Australia was also awesome. I just went a year ago with Tom for a wedding at the opera house on New Years Eve. It was spectacular. What a fireworks show! What a wedding! We went to the wine country and the Blue Mountains. Australia has a Californian feel to it and the beaches are a little nicer.
Christie: I have my hand in other projects. My husband and and I just opened a restaurant and we're opening a bar in San Francusco. I love good foods. When I was 18 I made up my own menu of what I'd offer if I opened a restaurant. My cousin is part of a handsome set of boys who throw fabulous parties and they wanted to start a restaurant. They had me design the interior and then I didn't want to give it up, so we invested. It's high-end Californian Mexican. It's absolutely delicious food. I also created a show with my ex-boyfriend, funnily enough, and we're just starting to pitch it around.
Christie: (asked if she can relate to Sami & Carrie's constant warring over men) No. I was obsessed with boys in high school, wanting them to smile or wink at me. Now, it's important to have your own thing going on, to feel sexy and confident, and be able to hang out with your girlfriends and not your man all the time. Luckily, I get to commute to do my acting and my husband, Tom, is in San Francisco.
Christie: (on who she believes Carrie belongs with on DOOL) The more the merrier, in my opinion. My job is great - I've been kissing this guy and then moving onto the next! The Lucas thing was a new dimension and Bryan Dattilo is great to work with. I would love Carrie to be single for a while, to go out with Billy and anyone else who's single, but Austin is the love of her life. I wish she'd stop being silly and get on with it.
Christie: (on Krav maga - a hand-to-hand combat technique developed by the Israeli Defence Forces) It’s great training and it teaches you how to protect yourself. I like exercising. I’m always looking for new things to do and ways to keep in shape. The great thing about Krav Manga is that I’m learning how to defend myself.
Christie: I have been married now for three-and a half years. My husband Tom isn’t in the business, he’s English and he was always the lead actor in his school plays, so he has it in his blood. He’s a businessman, but he’s creative. He might eventually try to do the acting thing. His parents had talked him out of it, but he might try again and I want him to, if he figures out that’s what he wants. But business is going well and we want to retire early.
Christie: (what she thinks of Aussies) They were very friendly. They reminded me of the men and women in California. They’re health-conscious with a casual attitude because the sun was shining all the time.
Christie: (why she left Days originally) I just didn’t have the passion for it. I think you should have that if you’re lucky enough to have a job like this. I was desperate to travel.
Christie: (on the trend for actresses to stay thin and use cosmetic surgery) I think it’s sad that we all want to look the same or stay young. But as I get older, it’s like, ‘Would I do that?’ I don’t know. I look up to the women who don’t do it, like Diane Lane and Helen Mirren, who look their age. I hate when women’s faces look like ducks, but I don’t know what I would do.
Christie: (on how much of herself she puts into her character, Carrie) A little bit of Christie is in Carrie. She’s the nice side of me. I’m tougher than Carrie; it takes a lot to get me mad, but if you do, you don’t want to be in the middle of it. Carrie takes it in and doesn’t snap too often. I’m a prankster!
Q: When Days’ Executive Producer Ken Corday asked you to come back, did he reveal the secrets of your story? Christie: I asked, but he said, ‘You’ll have to read the script’. I said, ‘Well, Carrie is coming back from Israel, and I’ve been taking Israel Combat in real life, do you want to add that in?’ I thought they might want to make me like an Alias-type chick, but it didn’t fly!
Christie played in a Danielle Steel movie, Changes, in which she slept with her stepbrother, got pregnant, then had an abortion.
In 1993, Christie appeared in the movie, Children of the Corn 2: The Final Sacrifice.
Christie, a snowboarding enthusiast, went looking for fashionable clothes to sport on the slopes and found a serious lack of outfits for women. So she created a line called Monkeywench, "one of the first companies to design snowboarding clothes just for women," says Clark. The company has also expanded, now doing more streetwear--shorts, sundresses, t-shirts, hiphugger skirts.
Christie lists Christmas as her favourite holiday.
For her portrayal of Carrie Brady in Days Of Our Lives, Christie was nominated for two Outstanding Younger Actress Daytime Emmy Awards (in 1997, 1998).
Christie has her own clothing line called, Monkeywench.
In 1998, Christie won the category "Hottest Romance" in the Soap Opera Digest Awards for her role of Carrie Brady (with love interest Austin Peck) in Days Of Our Lives.
In 1989, Christie was the Homecoming Princess of her high school in Placentia, California.
Christie's favourite colour is red.
Christie used the opportunity of her break away from Days Of Our Lives to study Krav Maga. She now shows a high degree of proficiency in this form martial arts.
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