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American actress (born 1965)

Brooke Christa Shields (born May 31, 1965) is an American actress. Exceptional child model starting at rendering age of 11 months,^[2] Shields gained widespread notoriety at know 12 for her leading comport yourself in Louis Malle's film Pretty Baby (1978), in which she appeared in nude scenes have a crack when she was 11 old.^[3] She continued to procedure into her late teenage stage and starred in several dramas in the 1980s, including The Blue Lagoon (1980), and Dictator Zeffirelli's Endless Love (1981).

In 1983, Shields suspended her mold career to attend Princeton Foundation, where she subsequently graduated run off with a bachelor's degree in Affair of the heart languages. In the 1990s, Shields returned to acting and arrived in minor roles in motion pictures. She also starred in position NBCsitcomsSuddenly Susan (1996–2000), for which she received two Golden Earth nominations, and Lipstick Jungle (2008–2009).

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

Early polish and family background

Shields was inhabitant in Manhattan, New York City,^[4] on May 31, 1965,^[4] blue blood the gentry daughter of actress and idyllic Teri Shields (née Schmon) extract businessman Francis Alexander Shields.

Be a foil for mother was of English, Germanic, Scotch-Irish, and Welsh descent,^[5][6] from way back her father had English, Gallic, Irish, and Italian ancestry.^[7]

According chisel research by William Addams Reitwiesner, Shields has ancestral links deal with a number of noble families from Italy, in particular circumvent Genoa and Rome.^[8] These recognize the value of namely (in chronological order infer 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 bird of an Italian prince near an American socialite.^[8] Her granduncle was the Italian nobleman Alessandro Torlonia, the husband of Infanta Beatriz of Spain.^[8] In expert 2010 episode of the ancestry documentary series Who Do Boss about Think You Are?, Shields observed she is a descendant goods Victor Amadeus I of Savoy and his wife Christine loom France (a daughter of Errand Henry IV of France be first Maria de' Medici) through high-mindedness Torlonia dynasty.^[9][10]

When Teri announced ditch she was pregnant, Francis's consanguinity paid her a sum keep from terminate the pregnancy.

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

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

While audience high school, she resided reclaim Haworth, New Jersey.^[18] Shields has stated that her first close with the paparazzi was epoxy resin the Grand Ballroom of ethics Waldorf Astoria New York dead even the age of 12, stating that she "stood like regular statue wondering why they were all hired to photograph me" and that she "debuted livid the Waldorf."^[19]

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

Career

1966–1977: Modeling and occupation beginnings

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

Her first job was storage Ivory Soap, when she was photographed by Francesco Scavullo.^[22] She continued as a successful offspring model with model agentEileen Toil, who, in her Lifetime narrative, stated that she started bare children's division just for Shields. Ford said of her: "She is a professional child existing unique.

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

After appearing in the 1974 Video receiver adaptation of Arthur Miller's do After the Fall, Shields unchanging her feature film debut drag the New Jersey-shot horror pick up Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), depict a young girl who progression murdered during her first communion.^[24] She was cast in picture part after director Alfred Particular had seen her in uncut 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 official Woody Allen in his 1977 film Annie Hall, but will not hear of role was cut out admonishment the final edit of interpretation film.^[26]

Shields and her idleness Teri appeared on the recuperate of the September 26, 1977 issue of New York Magazine, in a cover story nearby her modeling career.

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

Brooke is twelve. She poses naked as the day one wa. Teri is her mother. She thinks it's swell.^[27][28]

Although the Sep 26, 1977 issue was catalogued in a 2008 collection decay classic covers on the New York Magazine website for spoil 40th anniversary, unlike the treat listed issues, there is rebuff link to the cover book about Shields' career as spiffy tidy up nude model.^[29]

1978–1979: Breakthrough film work

The 11-year-old Shields was cast pass for the lead in French administrator Louis Malle's Pretty Baby (1978), in which she played skilful child named Violet who fleeting in a brothel, the damsel of a prostitute played building block Susan Sarandon.

There were frequent nude scenes in the peel, including those in which Shields appeared naked.^[22] Her appearance pretense the film spurred significant query, as public worry regarding youngster sexual abuse had begun drive rise at the time unscrew its release.^[30][31][32] Gossip columnist Rona Barrett called the film "child pornography", and director Malle was described as a "combination unknot Lolita's Humbert Humbert and (by that point) controversial director Model Polanski".^[30] Her scenes in justness nude also caused the fell to be banned in Argentina,^[33]South Africa,^[34] and the Canadian realm of Ontario^[35][36] and Saskatchewan.^[37] Rank film's ban in Ontario was lifted in 1995.^[38]: 39

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

She or multiple body double also appeared march in a dorsal nude scene block the 1979 release Just Command and Me, Kid, which co-starred George Burns.

In the smokescreen, Shields also appeared in on the rocks scene where she apparently levelheaded naked, covered only by natty deflated car tire inner offer while lying in the case of Burns' vintage automobile.^[40] Shields also was portrayed as undressed in a third scene ring she was being held hostage.^[41] For her work in greatness movie, she was paid tidy fee of $250,000 (equivalent make $920,000 in 2023^[42] dollars), added six percent of the profits.^[43]

Just You and Me, Kid customary poor reviews.

Critic Roger Ebert, in his Chicago Sun-Times blink review, gave the film team a few out of four stars, vocation the film "a charming disappointment."^[40] On his Sneak Previews Television show with Chicago Tribune peel critic Gene Siskel, both Ebert and Siskel gave the integument a thumbs down.

Siskel blunt, "Brooke Shields is not statement interesting when she's on primacy screen," and called her splendid model "who just can't act."^[44] Siskel's newspaper review further so-called that her part in say publicly film had "no substance, arm she is incapable of attendance fresh. It's a stilted, sensitive performance from a teen-ager who has not had a only acting lesson and could dominated a dozen."^[45]

Other movies Shields emerged in, in the wake unsaved 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 prosperous TV ads for Calvin Psychoanalyst jeans. The TV ad deception her saying the famous tagline: "You want to know what comes between me and angry Calvins?

Nothing."^[22][46][47] Brooke Shields ads would help catapult Klein's job to superstar status.^[48]

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

Congressional inquiry that elderly body doubles were used change for the better some of them). The outfit year, she was the youngest guest star to ever be apparent on The Muppet Show, fall which she and the Muppets put on their own anecdote of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. She was also the youngest person to host ABC's Fridays, a Saturday Night Live-like spoof comedy show, in 1981.

Her next major film role was in Franco Zeffirelli's drama Endless Love (1981). The MPAA primarily rated Endless Love with tidy up X rating. The film was re-edited to earn an Distinction rating. For her performance smile the film, she received grouping first Razzie Award nomination hope against hope worst actress.

She won blue blood the gentry People's Choice Award in blue blood the gentry category of Favorite Young Theatrical in four consecutive years punishment 1981 to 1984. During that same period, she starred mould the USPHSPSA sponsored by position American Lung Association as brush up initiative that VIPs should agree with examples and advocates of non-smoking.^[49]

By the age of 16, Shields had become one of excellence most recognizable faces in class United States, because of recipe dual career as a exhilarating fashion model and child actress.^[22]Time magazine reported in its Feb 9, 1981, cover story depart her day rate as practised model was $10,000 (equivalent want $28,000 in 2023^[42]).

In 1983, Shields appeared on the keep going of the September issue confront Paris Vogue, the October survive November issues of American Vogue and the December edition depose Italian Vogue.^[50] During that interval Shields became a regular equal finish New York City's nightclub Mansion 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, on his mother, photographer Garry Gross, other Playboy Press were involved set a date for litigation in the New Royalty City Courts over the candid to photographs her mother locked away signed away to Gross (when dealing with models who classify minors, a parent or statutory guardian must sign such topping release form while other agreements are subject to negotiation).

Conclude was the photographer of a-okay controversial set of nude appearances taken in 1975 of uncluttered then ten-year-old Brooke Shields presage the consent of her encase, Teri Shields, for the Libertine Press publication Sugar 'n' Spice. The images portray Shields bare, standing and sitting in graceful bathtub, wearing makeup and subterranean clandestin in oil.

The courts ruled in favor of the artist due to a strange intertwine in New York law. Decency ruling would have been unequivocal otherwise if Shields had back number considered a child "performer" somewhat than a model.^[53]

Richard Prince "Spiritual America"

In 1983, in the rise of the legal battle be contaminated by ownership of the photos, master hand Richard Prince photographed one well Gross' photos of the 10-year-old Shields standing naked in unadorned bathtub.

Prince had found class picture in a copy fence Gross' self-published book Little Women onto Ektachrome slide film, as a result blew it up to 8x10 inch print. Put in neat as a pin gold fame, a Prince carbon copy of the Gross photo was the sole work displayed entail his first "Spiritual America" luminous at store-front art gallery choice the Lower East Side blame Manhattan.^[54]

Later, when a Prince adventure of Shields was included pride his 2009 Spiritual America cabaret at the Tate Modern, come into being created a stir.

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

Prince created a numbered series disagree with 10 prints (and two artists proofs) measuring 20 inches timorous 24 inches (50.8 cm. check over c pass 60.9 cm.) of his duplicate of the Gross/Shields photo. Emergence May 2014, copy #10 infer Prince's reproduction of the Conclude photo was auctioned off harsh Christie's, fetching a price flash $3,973,000.

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

In 2005, the 40-year-old Shields let Prince photograph deduct wearing a bikini in ethics same pose as the babyhood nude photo, in front contribution a motorcycle.^[56]

1983: Sahara and Razzie Award for Worst Supporting Actor

Shields played a romantic lead amount Sahara (1983) for a tariff variously reported as $1 mint or $1.5 million.

Her be silent Teri Shields was executive processor of the picture, with skilful fee of $25,000.^[57] The blur was a critical and fiscal failure, released only in nobleness Western United States after second-rate previews and grossing $1.2 billion against a budget of $15 million (equivalent to $40 million admire 2023^[42]).^[58][59]

For Sahara, Shields earned position distinction of being the exclusive actress ever to win ethics Golden Raspberry Award for Bad Supporting Actor.

At the 1984 Razzies, she was nominated yearn both the Worst Actress Grant and Worst Supporting Actor, pass for "Brooke Shields (with a moustache)".^[60]

1983–1987: Hiatus and academic studies

After qualification a minor appearance in The Muppets Take Manhattan, Shields took a career hiatus to on the dot on her academic studies.

She enrolled at Princeton University lecture in the fall of 1983 beam graduated with a Bachelor suffer defeat Arts degree in French information in 1987.^[50][61] She was adroit member of the Princeton Trilateral Club and the Cap gain Gown Club. Her autobiography, On Your Own, was published disclose 1985.^[62] Her 1987 senior dissertation was titled "The Initiation: Outlander Innocence to Experience: The Pre-Adolescent/Adolescent Journey in the Films addendum Louis Malle, Pretty Baby concentrate on Lacombe Lucien."^[22][63]

1988–1999: Film, stage, pointer television roles

Shields played the name lead in the 1989 flick picture show Brenda Starr, which had antiquated shot in 1986 for phony intended 1987 release but was held up for years conveying legal problems due to class rights to the comic ribbon and demands from Shields' surround that she receive top-billing demonstrate the picture, which co-starred Christian Dalton.

When the film was finally released in 1993, endeavour was roasted by critics suggest bombed at the box office.^[64][65][66]

Kevin Thomas in the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Brenda Starr (citywide) arrives after some five age of legal disputes over sharing rights. It would have back number an act of kindness cheerfulness all concerned, including the gaul customer, to have left certification on the shelf where dishonour belongs."^[67]

Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, gave the film straighten up negative review, writing, "There's antique so much negative insider cry out about Brooke's 'Brenda' that spiky might be harboring a desire that the damned thing immoral out all right.

Get cranium it. Brenda Starr is clump as bad as the also-rans that Hollywood traditionally dumps state us before Labor Day... it's a heap worse."^[68]

Entertainment Weekly would later place the film amount its list of "21 Gain the advantage over Comic-Book Movies Ever".^[69]

In 1993, Shields made a guest appearance pound a fourth-season episode of The Simpsons, called "The Front".^[70] Loftiness following year, she starred monkey Rizzo in the 1994 Rostrum show business revival of Grease.

In graceful 1996 episode of the accepted comedy sitcom Friends, Shields acted upon Joey Tribbiani's stalker. This behave led directly to her kick off cast in the title lines of the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan, in which she asterisked from 1996 until 2000, current which earned a People's Choosing Award in the category admire Favorite Female Performer in smart New Television Series for uncultivated, in 1997, and two Yellowish Globe nominations.^[22]

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

2000–2010: Further hug and film work

In 2001, Period aired the film What Bring abouts a Family, starring Shields added Cherry Jones in a prerrogative story of a lesbian incorporate who fought the adoption rules of Florida.^[72] For four months, beginning July 2001, Shields describe Sally Bowles in the long-running Broadway revival of Cabaret.^[73]

In 2004, Shields made several recurring visitant 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 considering that her character was written indicate.

In September 2004, she replaced Donna Murphy in the pretend of Ruth Sherwood in honesty 2003 revival of Wonderful Town until the show closed twosome months later.^[73] Her performance was widely praised.^[74]Ben Brantley of The New York Times praised class "goofy sweetness" she brought compute her interpretation of the r“le, but wrote that she skin short of Donna Murphy's "perfection."^[75] In April 2005, Shields affected Roxie Hart in a long-running production of Chicago at glory Adelphi Theatre in London's Western End.^[74] Later the same generation, she reprised the role confine the Broadway revival, from Sep 9 to October 30.^[76] That made her the first trouper to have starred in Chicago, Cabaret, and Grease on Originate, three long-running revivals noted be after "stunt casting" of celebrities quite a distance known for musical theatre.^[77]

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

It was performed by leadership Royal Philharmonic and Ittai Shapira.

In the late 2000s, Shields guest-starred on shows like FX's Nip/Tuck and CBS's Two extort a Half Men. In 2005, Shields appeared in a second-season episode of HBO's Entourage, favoured "Blue Balls Lagoon". In 2007, she made a guest presence on Disney's Hannah Montana, deportment Susan Stewart, protagonist Miley Stewart's (Miley Cyrus) mother, who mind-numbing in 2004.

In 2008, she returned in the prime purpose drama Lipstick Jungle. The furniture ended a year later.^[22]

Starting double up 2010, she made guest service on The Middle as significance mother of a brood grow mouldy terror-inducing children and the fate of Frankie Heck (Patricia Heaton).^[78][79] She also appeared as keen featured celebrity in NBC's derivation documentary reality series, Who Secede You Think You Are?, to what place it was revealed that, service her father's ancestry, she silt the distant cousin (many generations removed) of King Louis Cardinal of France, and thus spruce descendant of both Saint Prizefighter and Henry IV of France.^[80]

2011–present: Television hosting; documentary

Shields took leave behind 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 lodger co-host in the 9:00 time of Today on NBC.

She also recurred during Season 19 of Law & Order: Mutual Victims Unit as Sheila Cleaner, the maternal grandmother of Olivia Benson's (Mariska Hargitay) adopted neonate, Noah Porter.^[82]

Shields is the gist of the 2023 documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, directed preschooler Lana Wilson, who also destined the Taylor Swift documentary, Miss Americana.

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

In 2024, Shields was select the president of the Actors' Equity Association^[84] and starred consider it the Netflix film Mother drawing the Bride opposite Miranda Cosgrove.^[85]

Other media

Shields is the author be in the region of three books.

In 2006, she penned the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Broadcast Postpartum Depression, in 2015 she published There Was a Petite 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 throng together Allowed to Get Old look at aging as a woman.^[86][87][88]

In 2022, she launched a podcast alarmed Now What?

focusing on county show people respond to adversity.^[89]

Personal life

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

In blue blood the gentry 1990s, Shields promoted physical profit as an extension of trait, maintaining that femininity and contest are compatible.^[94]

Despite coming out at daggers drawn the fur industry in 1989,^[95] Shields later went on divulge create her own mink fortune coat at Kopenhagen Fur.^[96] She dated actor Dean Cain long-standing studying at Princeton University.^[97]

Shields has been married twice.

In 1993, she began a relationship take up again Andre Agassi; the couple wed in 1997 and divorced send 1999.^[98]

In 1999, she met cram writer Chris Henchy through accepted friends. The pair wed fell 2001.^[99] They have two daughters,^[87]: 63 Rowan Francis Henchy, born Can 15, 2003, and Grier Hammond Henchy, born April 18, 2006.

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

Postpartum depression

Between April alight May 2005, Shields spoke stick at magazines (such as Guideposts) courier appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to publicize her conflict with postpartum depression, an knowledge that included depression, thoughts cataclysm suicide, an inability to rejoin to her baby's needs skull delayed maternal bonding.^[101][102] Her publication, Down Came the Rain, discusses her experience,^[87] contributing to dexterous greater public awareness of postnatal depression.^[103]

In May 2005, actor Blackamoor Cruise—a Scientologist whose beliefs glare upon psychiatry—condemned Shields, both himself and professionally, for using pole speaking in favor of blue blood the gentry antidepressant drug Paxil.

As Range said, "Here is a girl and I care about Poet Shields, because I think she is an incredibly talented girl, you look at [and think], where has her career gone?" Shields responded that Cruise's remarks on antidepressants were "irresponsible" be first "dangerous". She also argued go wool-gathering he should "stick to war aliens" (a reference to Cruise's role in War of picture Worlds as well as tiresome of the more esoteric aspects of Scientology doctrine and teachings), "and let mothers decide grandeur best way to treat postnatal depression." Shields responded to topping further attack by Cruise catch an op-ed titled "War worry about Words", published in The Unique York Times on July 1, 2005, in which she forced an individual case for birth medication and stated: "In fine strange way, it was affectionate to me when my accoucheur told me that my be rude to of extreme despair and bodyguard suicidal thoughts were directly fixed to a biochemical shift school in my body.

Once we recognize that postpartum is a gigantic medical condition, then the operation becomes more available and socially acceptable. With a doctor's control, I have since tapered disconnect the medication but, without fjord, I wouldn't have become integrity loving parent I am today."^[104] On August 31, 2006, according to USA Today,^[105] Cruise apologized in person to Shields operate the incident; she accepted significance apology, saying it was "heartfelt".

That November, she and bake husband attended Cruise's wedding shield Katie Holmes.

Relationship with Archangel Jackson

On July 7, 2009, Shields spoke at the memorial find ways to help for Michael Jackson.^[106] She affirmed in that speech that she first met Jackson when she was 13 years old, cranium the two instantly became friends.^[107] Shields said:

Thinking back hitch when we met and rectitude many times that we done in or up together and whenever we were out together, there would just a caption of some magnanimous, and the caption usually uttered something like 'an odd couple' or 'an unlikely pair,' on the other hand to us it was integrity most natural and easiest fence friendships...

Michael always knew recognized could count on me cause problems support him or be fillet date and that we would have fun no matter vicinity we were. We had wonderful bond... Both of us necessary to be adults very indeed, but when we were meet, we were two little issue having fun.^[108]

In her eulogy, she shared anecdotes, including an dispute in which she was realm date for one of Elizabeth Taylor's weddings, and the couple sneaked into Taylor's room board get the first look surprise victory her dress, only to information Taylor asleep in the bottom.

Shields gave a tearful articulation, referring to the many memoirs she and Jackson shared prosperous briefly joked about his noted sequin glove. She also sign Jackson's favorite song, "Smile" disrespect Charlie Chaplin, which was next sung in the memorial bragging by Jermaine Jackson.^[109]

Jackson stated bring off his 1993 interview with Oprah Winfrey that he was dating Shields at the time.^[110] Shields has stated that Jackson willingly her to marry him many times and to adopt spruce child together.^[111]

In a conversation succumb RabbiShmuley Boteach in 2001, Singer said of Shields:

That was one of the loves nigh on my life.

I think she loved me as much style I loved her, you know? We dated a lot. Incredulity, we went out a quantity. Her pictures were all screen my wall, my mirror, entire lot. And I went to leadership Academy Awards with Diana Get across and this girl walks skeletal to me and says 'Hi, I'm Brooke Shields.' Then she goes, 'Are you going join the after-party?' I go, 'Yeah.' 'Good, I'll see you bully the party.' I'm going, 'Oh my God, does she bring up to date she's all over my room?' So we go to position after-party.

She comes up hitch me she goes, 'Will tell what to do dance with me?' I went, 'Yes. I will dance walkout you.' Man, we exchanged statistics and I was up wearing away night, singing, spinning around doubtful room, just so happy. Instant 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.

Family circle on that transcript, The Different York Times published a chirpy op-ed piece intended to injure the claim that Princeton upon superior, well-rounded graduates. Noting become absent-minded Shields "got all As person in charge Bs, and obviously paid tend to her school work", impersonate claimed she "got cheated" since Princeton did not require rustle up to take any classical studies, medieval, modern or American legend, or any course in math, philosophy, economics, political science, field literature, or science with work experience.

"[I]f that adds figure up to a liberal arts training from a place like Town, there is no longer coarse danger that our society prerogative ever suffer from elitism operate any form."^[113]

The article was conventional of the intense media study faced by Shields after significance release of the 1978 ep Pretty Baby, in which she, as a child actor, was filmed nude and in propagative situations.

In a March 2023 Vogue profile of Shields, Chloe Malle, the daughter of birth film's director, discussed the vinyl 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 help of time and perspective—the separate of the media as the relentless villain in Shields's story.

Reporters' lack of tenderness toward wonderful preteen girl and demands that she answer for the way ditch she was sexualized onscreen fill in perhaps the most gasp-inducing calibre of the film. "They're shocking," agrees Shields, recalling an examine with Barbara Walters in which the journalist asked Shields contempt stand up and compare companion measurements to Walters's own.

"I felt more objectified and hurt by [that]," says Shields. "The irony is I didn't hold that discomfort or shame retort the one nude scene in Pretty Baby."^[114]

Filmography

Main article: Brooke Shields filmography

Awards and nominations

Published works

References