Brooke Shields opens up about child fame and nude scenes in ‘Pretty Baby’
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Brooke Shields is reflecting on the controversy surrounding her early fame.
During a latest interview, Shields — who’s at the moment selling her new Acorn TV mystery-comedy sequence, “You’re Killing Me” — opened up about turning into a “sex symbol” at such a younger age and detailed how she was capable of flip the web page later in life.
“Believe me, I would’ve done it a couple of decades before,” Shields advised AARP of her breakout comedy activate “Friends.” She performed the stalker of Matt LeBlanc’s character, Joey. “But that wasn’t what people wanted of me. They wanted me to be this, I don’t know, sex symbol… and that was fine.”
Brooke Shields stated she was “fine” with being a intercourse image at a younger age. (Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
“Doing sketch comedy,” stated Shields, “I was always happiest.”
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The actress rose to fame on the age of 11 when she performed a child prostitute in “Pretty Baby,” which featured Shields in a number of nude scenes. As a 10-year-old, Shields posed bare for the Playboy publication Sugar’n’Spice.
“I was at the center of it,” Shields stated throughout a panel on the South by Southwest Festival in 2024. “And I was promoting it, and I was doing it.”
She continued, “And I used to be fortunate as a result of I used to be surrounded by a very strong mom. I by no means did transfer to hollywood. I all the time went to common college.”
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“So I had this kind of neighborhood round me that was defending me, buoying me. And so I did not turn out to be the kind of statistic that Hollywood created“Shields added.
Shields first rose to fame on the age of 11 when she performed a child prostitute in “Pretty Baby.” (Dave Benett/Getty Images)
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“Hollywood is preached on eating its young.”
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During that very same panel dialogue, Shields additionally opened up about ageism in Hollywood.
“At 58, you’re too old to be the ingénue but not quite the granny yet,” Shields stated.
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She continued, “I find my reaction is to instead of get angry, find and ferret out the filmmakers who appreciate a woman over 40 and appreciate the life experience, the ‘we’ve raised the children, we’ve had the families, we’ve had businesses, we’ve had professional lives, we’ve left them, we’ve gone back to them.”
Shields has been vocal about getting old in Hollywood. (Getty Images)
“There are people out there who want to cater their programming to women of that age.”
“My entire career has been built on beauty. As I’ve gotten older I want my message to be appreciative, but beauty as a wellness,” she added. “We’re not just wrinkle cream.”
“We need to change the narrative and say that there is beauty in this age.”
Fox News Digital’s Ashley Hume contributed to this publish.