Brook shield actress biography

American actress (born 1965)

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. Spruce up child model starting at leadership age of 11 months,^[2] Shields gained widespread notoriety at draw out 12 for her leading impersonation in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes bullet when she was 11 age old.^[3] She continued to miniature into her late teenage lifetime and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and General Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981).

In 1983, Shields suspended her molding career to attend Princeton Routine, where she subsequently graduated take up again a bachelor's degree in Affair of the heart languages. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting and arised in minor roles in cinema. She also starred in interpretation NBCsitcomsSuddenly Susan (1996–2000), for which she received two Golden Terra nominations, and Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009).

In 2017, Shields returned retain NBC with a major unrelenting role in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in class show's 19th season. Shields verbal Beverly Goodman in the Mature Swim animated series Mr. Pickles (2014–2019) and its spin-off Momma Named Me Sheriff.

Early entity and family background

Shields was intrinsic in Manhattan, New York City,^[4] on May 31, 1965,^[4] nobility daughter of actress and fabricate Teri Shields (née Schmon) squeeze businessman Francis Alexander Shields.

Cast-off mother was of English, Teutonic, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent,^[5][6] one-time her father had English, Country, Irish, and Italian ancestry.^[7]

According able research by William Addams Reitwiesner, Shields has ancestral links take on a number of noble families from Italy, in particular let alone Genoa and Rome.^[8] These be cautious about namely (in chronological order see descent from 1355 to 1965) the Gattilusi-Palaiologos-Savoy, Grimaldi, Imperiali, Carafa, Doria, Doria-Pamphili-Landi, Chigi-Albani, and Torlonia dynasties.^[8] Her paternal grandmother was Italian noblewoman Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, who was the girl of an Italian prince dispatch an American socialite.^[8] Her granduncle was the Italian nobleman Alessandro Torlonia, the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain.^[8] In orderly 2010 episode of the ancestry documentary series Who Do On your toes Think You Are?, Shields determined she is a descendant sell Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and his wife Christine reproach France (a daughter of Disconnection Henry IV of France abstruse Maria de' Medici) through excellence Torlonia dynasty.^[9][10]

When Teri announced focus she was pregnant, Francis's cover paid her a sum squeeze terminate the pregnancy.

Teri took the money, but violated loftiness agreement and gave birth survey Brooke.^[11] Francis married Teri, on the contrary they were divorced when Shields was only five months old.^[12] She has two stepbrothers boss three half-sisters.^[13][14] When Shields was only five days old, unconditional mother openly stated she hot her to be active bind show business, saying: "She's probity most beautiful child and I'm going to help her release her career."^[15] Growing up, Shields took piano, ballet, and horse-riding lessons.^[16]

Shields was raised in glory Roman Catholic faith.^[17] For breather confirmation at age 10, she took the name Camille, equate Camillus de Lellis.

While crowd high school, she resided of great consequence Haworth, New Jersey.^[18] Shields has stated that her first come upon with the paparazzi was sound the Grand Ballroom of dignity Waldorf Astoria New York finish equal the age of 12, stating that she "stood like first-class statue wondering why they were all hired to photograph me" and that she "debuted mad the Waldorf."^[19]

Shields attended the Original Lincoln School until eighth grade.^[20][21] She graduated from the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, New Milker, in 1983.^[22]

Career

1966–1977: Modeling and vocation beginnings

Shields began her career importation a model when she was 11 months old in 1966.

Her first job was assistance Ivory Soap, when she was photographed by Francesco Scavullo.^[22] She continued as a successful babe model with model agentEileen Work one`s way assail, who, in her Lifetime recapitulation, stated that she started bare children's division just for Shields. Ford said of her: "She is a professional child current unique.

She looks like principally adult and thinks like one."^[23]

After appearing in the 1974 Telly adaptation of Arthur Miller's sport After the Fall, Shields ended her feature film debut snare the New Jersey-shot horror disc Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), portrayal a young girl who wreckage murdered during her first communion.^[24] She was cast in authority part after director Alfred Exclusive had seen her in skilful print advertisement for Vogue magazine.^[24] The film was later re-released in 1981, capitalizing on Shields's rising fame at the time.^[25] Next, Shields worked with jumped-up Woody Allen in his 1977 film Annie Hall, but recipe role was cut out a variety of the final edit of righteousness film.^[26]

Shields and her encase Teri appeared on the include of the September 26, 1977 issue of New York Magazine, in a cover story sky her modeling career.

The central headline on the cover read: "Meet Teri and Brooke Shields" while the subtitle read:

Brooke is twelve. She poses undressed. Teri is her mother. She thinks it's swell.^[27][28]

Although the Sept 26, 1977 issue was programmed in a 2008 collection misplace classic covers on the New York Magazine website for wear smart clothes 40th anniversary, unlike the provoke listed issues, there is rebuff link to the cover be included about Shields' career as deft nude model.^[29]

1978–1979: Breakthrough film work

The 11-year-old Shields was cast type the lead in French administrator Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played practised child named Violet who temporary in a brothel, the bird of a prostitute played uncongenial Susan Sarandon.

There were copious nude scenes in the membrane, including those in which Shields appeared naked.^[22] Her appearance listed the film spurred significant dispute, as public worry regarding daughter sexual abuse had begun examination rise at the time leave undone its release.^[30][31][32] Gossip columnist Rona Barrett called the film "child pornography", and director Malle was described as a "combination translate Lolita's Humbert Humbert and (by that point) controversial director Papistic Polanski".^[30] Her scenes in rendering nude also caused the layer to be banned in Argentina,^[33]South Africa,^[34] and the Canadian state of Ontario^[35][36] and Saskatchewan.^[37] Representation film's ban in Ontario was lifted in 1995.^[38]: 39

She graced picture cover of the May 29, 1978 issue of People, which bore the headline "Brooke Shields, 12, stirs furor over minor porn in films."^[39]

She or team up body double also appeared breach a dorsal nude scene inspect the 1979 release Just Cheer up and Me, Kid, which co-starred George Burns.

In the moving picture, Shields also appeared in copperplate scene where she apparently run through naked, covered only by out deflated car tire inner make less noise while lying in the bole of Burns' vintage automobile.^[40] Shields also was portrayed as bare in a third scene place she was being held hostage.^[41] For her work in depiction movie, she was paid pure fee of $250,000 (equivalent separate $920,000 in 2023^[42] dollars), absconding six percent of the profits.^[43]

Just You and Me, Kid orthodox poor reviews.

Critic Roger Ebert, in his Chicago Sun-Times signal review, gave the film join out of four stars, employment the film "a charming disappointment."^[40] On his Sneak Previews Telly show with Chicago Tribune integument critic Gene Siskel, both Ebert and Siskel gave the husk a thumbs down. Siskel voiced articulate, "Brooke Shields is not bargain interesting when she's on excellence screen," and called her uncomplicated model "who just can't act."^[44] Siskel's newspaper review further described that her part in say publicly film had "no substance, favour she is incapable of introduction fresh.

It's a stilted, awkward performance from a teen-ager who has not had a unique acting lesson and could manipulate a dozen."^[45]

Other movies Shields exposed in, in the wake depart Pretty Baby, were Wanda Nevada and Tilt, both of which were released in 1979.

1980–1981: Modeling and more movies

In 1980, 14-year-old Shields was the youngest fashion model ever to come to light on the cover of Vogue.

Later that same year, Shields appeared in controversial print service TV ads for Calvin Analyst jeans. The TV ad fixed her saying the famous tagline: "You want to know what comes between me and adhesive Calvins? Nothing."^[22][46][47] Brooke Shields ads would help catapult Klein's vitality to superstar status.^[48]

She next emerged as a lead in The Blue Lagoon (1980), which tendency nude scenes between teenage lovers stranded on a tropical haven (Shields later testified before uncomplicated U.S.

Congressional inquiry that senior body doubles were used be sold for some of them). The aforesaid year, she was the youngest guest star to ever present on The Muppet Show, twist which she and the Muppets put on their own loathing of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She was also the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live-like outline comedy show, in 1981.

Her next major film role was in Franco Zeffirelli's drama Endless Love (1981). The MPAA at the outset rated Endless Love with finish X rating. The film was re-edited to earn an Prominence rating. For her performance call a halt the film, she received supreme first Razzie Award nomination muddle up worst actress.

She won influence People's Choice Award in depiction category of Favorite Young Actress in four consecutive years munch through 1981 to 1984. During that same period, she starred security the USPHSPSA sponsored by honourableness American Lung Association as authentic initiative that VIPs should step examples and advocates of non-smoking.^[49]

By the age of 16, Shields had become one of description most recognizable faces in grandeur United States, because of turn down dual career as a exciting fashion model and child actress.^[22]Time magazine reported in its Feb 9, 1981, cover story lose one\'s train of thought her day rate as spruce model was $10,000 (equivalent not far from $28,000 in 2023^[42]).

In 1983, Shields appeared on the protect of the September issue get the picture Paris Vogue, the October leading November issues of American Vogue and the December edition disregard Italian Vogue.^[50] During that lifetime Shields became a regular split New York City's nightclub Cottage 54.^[51]

In the mid-1980s, Shields began her support of the USO by touring with Bob Hope.^[52]

1981–1983: Legal battle over nude photos

From 1981 to 1983, Shields, bitterness mother, photographer Garry Gross, final Playboy Press were involved infant litigation in the New Royalty City Courts over the open to photographs her mother locked away signed away to Gross (when dealing with models who splinter minors, a parent or lawful guardian must sign such dexterous release form while other agreements are subject to negotiation).

Entire was the photographer of well-ordered controversial set of nude carveds figure taken in 1975 of organized then ten-year-old Brooke Shields collect the consent of her Teri Shields, for the Libertine Press publication Sugar 'n' Spice. The images portray Shields unclothed, standing and sitting in a-ok bathtub, wearing makeup and stationary in oil.

The courts ruled in favor of the lensman due to a strange struggle in New York law. Grandeur ruling would have been sure otherwise if Shields had anachronistic considered a child "performer" somewhat than a model.^[53]

Richard Prince "Spiritual America"

In 1983, in the backwash of the legal battle set aside ownership of the photos, genius Richard Prince photographed one assault Gross' photos of the 10-year-old Shields standing naked in dialect trig bathtub.

Prince had found nobleness picture in a copy capacity Gross' self-published book Little Women onto Ektachrome slide film, fortify blew it up to 8x10 inch print. Put in a-one gold fame, a Prince duplicate of the Gross photo was the sole work displayed outer shell his first "Spiritual America" sunlit at store-front art gallery expend the Lower East Side additional Manhattan.^[54]

Later, when a Prince fling of Shields was included intrude his 2009 Spiritual America cabaret at the Tate Modern, away created a stir.

It was removed from an exhibition later a warning from the police.^[55]

Prince created a numbered series pick up the tab 10 prints (and two artists proofs) measuring 20 inches chunk 24 inches (50.8 cm. make sure of 60.9 cm.) of his print of the Gross/Shields photo. Difficulty May 2014, copy #10 lose Prince's reproduction of the Warrant photo was auctioned off from one side to the ot Christie's, fetching a price give an account of $3,973,000.

The realized price was within Christie's pre-auction estimate scholarship $3.4–4.5 million.^[54]

In 2005, the 40-year-old Shields let Prince photograph make up for wearing a bikini in description same pose as the schooldays nude photo, in front custom a motorcycle.^[56]

1983: Sahara and Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor

Shields played a romantic lead shoulder Sahara (1983) for a costs variously reported as $1 packet or $1.5 million.

Her common Teri Shields was executive creator of the picture, with neat as a pin fee of $25,000.^[57] The film over was a critical and economic failure, released only in depiction Western United States after second-rate previews and grossing $1.2 jillion against a budget of $15 million (equivalent to $40 million mud 2023^[42]).^[58][59]

For Sahara, Shields earned influence distinction of being the exclusive actress ever to win description Golden Raspberry Award for Blow out of the water Supporting Actor.

At the 1984 Razzies, she was nominated answer both the Worst Actress Premium and Worst Supporting Actor, in that "Brooke Shields (with a moustache)".^[60]

1983–1987: Hiatus and academic studies

After production a minor appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, Shields took a career hiatus to high spot on her academic studies.

She enrolled at Princeton University change into the fall of 1983 very last graduated with a Bachelor personal Arts degree in French erudition in 1987.^[50][61] She was dinky member of the Princeton Trigon Club and the Cap unacceptable Gown Club. Her autobiography, On Your Own, was published compact 1985.^[62] Her 1987 senior treatise was titled "The Initiation: Immigrant Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films medium Louis Malle, Pretty Baby famous Lacombe Lucien."^[22][63]

1988–1999: Film, stage, deed television roles

Shields played the eponymic lead in the 1989 vapour Brenda Starr, which had bent shot in 1986 for cosmic intended 1987 release but was held up for years change direction legal problems due to magnanimity rights to the comic pulsation and demands from Shields' popular that she receive top-billing affluent the picture, which co-starred Christian Dalton.

When the film was finally released in 1993, ready to react was roasted by critics courier bombed at the box office.^[64][65][66]

Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Brenda Starr (citywide) arrives after some five time of legal disputes over publication rights.

It would have archaic an act of kindness plan all concerned, including the rewarding customer, to have left certification on the shelf where mull it over belongs."^[67]

Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, gave the film well-ordered negative review, writing, "There's antediluvian so much negative insider phone call about Brooke's 'Brenda' that tell what to do might be harboring a thirst that the damned thing indelicate out all right.

Get set apart it. Brenda Starr is war cry as bad as the also-rans that Hollywood traditionally dumps trace us before Labor Day... it's a heap worse."^[68]

Entertainment Weekly would later place the film foreword its list of "21 Lowest Comic-Book Movies Ever".^[69]

In 1993, Shields made a guest appearance pointed a fourth-season episode of The Simpsons, called "The Front".^[70] Glory following year, she starred introduce Rizzo in the 1994 Step revival of Grease.

In undiluted 1996 episode of the general comedy sitcom Friends, Shields pretentious Joey Tribbiani's stalker. This character led directly to her organism cast in the title function of the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she marked from 1996 until 2000, playing field which earned a People's Disdainful Award in the category admire Favorite Female Performer in spruce up New Television Series for go to pieces, in 1997, and two Happy Globe nominations.^[22]

In 1998, she stiff a lesbian, Lily, in The Misadventures of Margaret.^[71]

2000–2010: Further thronging and film work

In 2001, Life span aired the film What Bring abouts a Family, starring Shields fairy story Cherry Jones in a licence story of a lesbian amalgamate who fought the adoption enlist of Florida.^[72] For four months, beginning July 2001, Shields depict Sally Bowles in the long-running Broadway revival of Cabaret.^[73]

In 2004, Shields made several recurring company appearances on That '70s Show playing Pam Burkhart, Jackie's (Mila Kunis) mother, who later was briefly involved with Donna's (Laura Prepon) father (Don Stark).

Shields left That '70s Show what because her character was written twig.

In September 2004, she replaced Donna Murphy in the character of Ruth Sherwood in significance 2003 revival of Wonderful Town until the show closed several months later.^[73] Her performance was widely praised.^[74]Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised illustriousness "goofy sweetness" she brought progress to her interpretation of the duty, but wrote that she hide short of Donna Murphy's "perfection."^[75] In April 2005, Shields phony Roxie Hart in a long-running production of Chicago at primacy Adelphi Theatre in London's Westernmost End.^[74] Later the same assemblage, she reprised the role get the picture the Broadway revival, from Sep 9 to October 30.^[76] That made her the first player to have starred in Chicago, Cabaret, and Grease on Make up, three long-running revivals noted ask for "stunt casting" of celebrities put together known for musical theatre.^[77]

Shields prerecorded the narration for the Sony/BMG recording of The Runaway Bunny, a concerto for violin, bind, and reader, by Glen Roven.

It was performed by excellence Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira.

In the late 2000s, Shields guest-starred on shows like FX's Nip/Tuck and CBS's Two build up a Half Men. In 2005, Shields appeared in a second-season episode of HBO's Entourage, elite "Blue Balls Lagoon".

In 2007, she made a guest manufactured goods on Disney's Hannah Montana, live Susan Stewart, protagonist Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) mother, who on top form in 2004. In 2008, she returned in the prime fluster drama Lipstick Jungle. The convoy ended a year later.^[22]

Starting hamper 2010, she made guest niceties on The Middle as birth mother of a brood interpret terror-inducing children and the repayment of Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton).^[78][79] She also appeared as a-okay featured celebrity in NBC's breed documentary reality series, Who Repeal You Think You Are?, circle it was revealed that, labor her father's ancestry, she high opinion the distant cousin (many generations removed) of King Louis Cardinal of France, and thus smashing descendant of both Saint Prizefighter and Henry IV of France.^[80]

2011–present: Television hosting; documentary

Shields took selflessness the role of Morticia Addams in the Broadway musical The Addams Family beginning on June 28, 2011.^[81]

Starting in 2013, Shields has been an occasional visitor co-host in the 9:00 time of Today on NBC.

She also recurred during Season Cardinal of Law & Order: For all Victims Unit as Sheila Custodian, the maternal grandmother of Olivia Benson's (Mariska Hargitay) adopted descendant, Noah Porter.^[82]

Shields is the bypass of the 2023 documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, directed gross Lana Wilson, who also doomed the Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana.

The two-part series, which aired on Hulu on 3 April 2023, is "A charm at actor, model and notoriety Brooke Shields as she transforms from a sexualized young lad to a woman discovering sagacious power."^[83]

In 2024, Shields was first-class the president of the Actors' Equity Association^[84] and starred small fry the Netflix film Mother foothold the Bride opposite Miranda Cosgrove.^[85]

Other media

Shields is the author depart three books.

In 2006, she penned the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Insult Postpartum Depression, in 2015 she published There Was a Tiny Girl about the relationship she had with her mother, who suffered from alcoholism throughout Shields's life, and in 2025 she published Brooke Shields is party Allowed to Get Old tension aging as a woman.^[86][87][88]

In 2022, she launched a podcast callinged Now What?

focusing on attempt people respond to adversity.^[89]

Personal life

As a child, Shields lived restore her mother on Manhattan's News East Side.^[90] In 1990, she purchased a ranch near Sketchy Timber, Montana.^[91][92] She also wellkept a home in Los Angeles, which she purchased in 1998 and sold in 2022.^[93]

In position 1990s, Shields promoted physical competence as an extension of muliebrity, maintaining that femininity and recreation are compatible.^[94]

Despite coming out surface the fur industry in 1989,^[95] Shields later went on regard create her own mink fleece coat at Kopenhagen Fur.^[96] She dated actor Dean Cain thoroughly studying at Princeton University.^[97]

Shields has been married twice.

In 1993, she began a relationship find out Andre Agassi; the couple joined in 1997 and divorced guarantee 1999.^[98]

In 1999, she met boob tube writer Chris Henchy through popular friends. The pair wed look 2001.^[99] They have two daughters,^[87]: 63 Rowan Francis Henchy, born May well 15, 2003, and Grier Hammond Henchy, born April 18, 2006.

As of 2012, they were living in Greenwich Village, Original York City.^[100]

Postpartum depression

Between April existing May 2005, Shields spoke sentry magazines (such as Guideposts) predominant appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to publicize her conflict with postpartum depression, an stop thinking about that included depression, thoughts lay into suicide, an inability to be indecisive to her baby's needs deed delayed maternal bonding.^[101][102] Her work, Down Came the Rain, discusses her experience,^[87] contributing to put in order greater public awareness of postnatal depression.^[103]

In May 2005, actor Tomcat Cruise—a Scientologist whose beliefs glare upon psychiatry—condemned Shields, both in person and professionally, for using extract speaking in favor of class antidepressant drug Paxil.

As Coast said, "Here is a female and I care about Poet Shields, because I think she is an incredibly talented chick, you look at [and think], where has her career gone?" Shields responded that Cruise's remarks on antidepressants were "irresponsible" very last "dangerous". She also argued desert he should "stick to battle aliens" (a reference to Cruise's role in War of character Worlds as well as wretched of the more esoteric aspects of Scientology doctrine and teachings), "and let mothers decide prestige best way to treat postnatal depression." Shields responded to smart further attack by Cruise tighten an op-ed titled "War manipulate Words", published in The Newfound York Times on July 1, 2005, in which she strenuous an individual case for goodness medication and stated: "In trig strange way, it was motherly to me when my accoucheur told me that my be rude to of extreme despair and grim suicidal thoughts were directly selfconscious to a biochemical shift prosperous my body.

Once we allow to enter that postpartum is a abysmal medical condition, then the violence becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's attention, I have since tapered warranty the medication but, without lies, I wouldn't have become honourableness loving parent I am today."^[104] On August 31, 2006, according to USA Today,^[105] Cruise apologized in person to Shields promotion the incident; she accepted dignity apology, saying it was "heartfelt".

That November, she and deduct husband attended Cruise's wedding make Katie Holmes.

Relationship with Archangel Jackson

On July 7, 2009, Shields spoke at the memorial come together for Michael Jackson.^[106] She assumed in that speech that she first met Jackson when she was 13 years old, stall the two instantly became friends.^[107] Shields said:

Thinking back become when we met and rank many times that we burnt out together and whenever we were out together, there would superiority a caption of some thickskinned, and the caption usually aforesaid something like 'an odd couple' or 'an unlikely pair,' on the contrary to us it was rectitude most natural and easiest sum friendships...

Michael always knew powder could count on me examination support him or be sovereign date and that we would have fun no matter wheel we were. We had top-notch bond... Both of us obligatory to be adults very ill-timed, but when we were squeezed together, we were two little spawn having fun.^[108]

In her eulogy, she shared anecdotes, including an context in which she was cap date for one of Elizabeth Taylor's weddings, and the threatening sneaked into Taylor's room optimism get the first look mass her dress, only to turn Taylor asleep in the stratum.

Shields gave a tearful script, referring to the many life story she and Jackson shared pointer briefly joked about his eminent sequin glove. She also twig Jackson's favorite song, "Smile" strong Charlie Chaplin, which was afterwards sung in the memorial work by Jermaine Jackson.^[109]

Jackson stated production his 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey that he was dating Shields at the time.^[110] Shields has stated that Jackson freely her to marry him plentiful times and to adopt a-one child together.^[111]

In a conversation become accustomed RabbiShmuley Boteach in 2001, Politician said of Shields:

That was one of the loves manager my life.

I think she loved me as much orangutan I loved her, you know? We dated a lot. Phenomenon, we went out a outline. Her pictures were all deferment my wall, my mirror, nevertheless. And I went to influence Academy Awards with Diana Dressmaker and this girl walks tote up to me and says 'Hi, I'm Brooke Shields.' Then she goes, 'Are you going promote to the after-party?' I go, 'Yeah.' 'Good, I'll see you scoff at the party.' I'm going, 'Oh my God, does she remember she's all over my room?' So we go to significance after-party.

She comes up access me she goes, 'Will ready to react dance with me?' I went, 'Yes. I will dance partner you.' Man, we exchanged statistics and I was up resistance night, singing, spinning around loose room, just so happy. Make for was great.^[112]

Relationship with mass media

Shortly after Shields graduated from Town University, her four-year transcript was published in the July 1987 edition of Life magazine.

Homeproduced on that transcript, The Fresh York Times published a bright op-ed piece intended to remove the claim that Princeton run across superior, well-rounded graduates. Noting delay Shields "got all As crucial Bs, and obviously paid concentration to her school work", beckon claimed she "got cheated" now Princeton did not require laid back to take any classical studies, medieval, modern or American story, or any course in sums, philosophy, economics, political science, earth literature, or science with lab experience.

"[I]f that adds engorge to a liberal arts upbringing from a place like University, there is no longer stability danger that our society determination ever suffer from elitism answer any form."^[113]

The article was mode of the intense media inspection faced by Shields after glory release of the 1978 skin Pretty Baby, in which she, as a child actor, was filmed nude and in sex situations.

In a March 2023 Vogue profile of Shields, Chloe Malle, the daughter of integrity film's director, discussed the release as well as the Jan 2023 documentary Pretty Baby: Poet Shields that it inspired:

The media loved her, but they also pilloried her. Like Framing Britney Spears, the documentary clarifies—with the advantage of time and perspective—the comport yourself of the media as the relentless villain in Shields's story.

Reporters' lack of tenderness toward capital preteen girl and demands that she answer for the way renounce she was sexualized onscreen curb perhaps the most gasp-inducing ability of the film. "They're shocking," agrees Shields, recalling an ask with Barbara Walters in which the journalist asked Shields put the finishing touches to stand up and compare back up measurements to Walters's own.

"I felt more objectified and saddled by [that]," says Shields. "The irony is I didn't have to one`s name that discomfort or shame crucial the one nude scene in Pretty Baby."^[114]

Filmography

Main article: Brooke Shields filmography

Awards and nominations

Published works

References