Brooke Shields, who stars in Pretty Baby, has spoken up about how her mother agreed to let her pose for Playboy when she was only ten years old.
Shields is most known to younger audiences for her roles in Friends, That 70s Show, the rom-com Chalet Girl, and Netflix’s latest film Mother of the Bride.
However, the 59-year-old has been in the entertainment industry for decades, beginning her acting career in the 1970s, when she was even an adolescent.
Shields found work with the support of her mother at the time, but she wasn’t simply performing in movies and TV series as a child.
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Shield’s mother, Teri, agreed when she was ten years old that she could pose naked for a photoshoot for the Playboy magazine Sugar and Spice.
She had her makeup done and appeared full-frontal at a young age.
Shields wrote In There Was a Little Girl: The True Story of My Mother and Me in 2014, two years after her mother died.
Shields opened out about her mother, but in an interview with The Times last year, she confessed there were still things she kept hidden.
She dismissed the Playboy incident in the book, telling The Times, “It was too much for me to admit, frankly. Writing about it has broken me. “I was protecting her.”
Shields acknowledged that it was her mother’s responsibility to ‘guard’ her as a child, but she stated that she was not furious with her mother for previous actions.
“Everyone wanted me to be angry with her, but anger was just too sad for me to take when I looked at how insecure she was,” she told us.
Shields opened up more about her life in the documentary Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby, which was released last year.
Looking back on her life, she stated, “That helped me reflect on who I am and give myself some credit.
“I had to deal with so much at such a young age, and while I was resilient, I also put on blinders as a coping mechanism. But now I can look at that little kid and say, ‘She did it, she pulled through.'”
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