Brooke Shields talked on how it feels to know that her mother, Teri Shields, let her do intimate scenes when she was just a youngster.
In a footage from her documentary Brooke Shields: Pretty Baby, the 60-year-old star asked her mom why she let her do inappropriate things in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby, where she played a child prostitute.
In the movie, Shields had to kiss Keith Carradine, who was 27 at the time, and she was also naked in several sequences. People said that her mother merely stood by and watched everything happen, telling her daughter that it was all “make-believe.”
She said that her own children, Rowan, 22, and Grier, 19, won’t watch it because it’s “p***ographic.”
Rowan says in the video, “It’s child p***ography.” Would you have let us do that when we were 11?
The mom says “No” and then starts to cry.
The actress told The Sunday Times about the incident, “That was hard for me. I didn’t want to explain my mom to them, but when they asked, I thought, ‘Oh God, I have to admit this.'”
But she doesn’t know why she believed it was okay, she says.
According to the Daily Mail, the star’s mother was an alcoholic who died in 2012. Shields said that even though she was angry with her, she couldn’t be because her mom was so insecure.
Shields had to do nude sequences as a child and even posed for Playboy when she was 10 years old.
I don’t know why she thought it was okay. She said, “I don’t know.”
The actress, who has previously appeared in Suddenly Susan and That ’70s Show, said it was unusual to not defend her mom’s actions when talking about the incident, which is something she had always done.
That was hard for me because I didn’t want to defend my mom to them, but when they asked me, I thought, “Oh God, I have to admit this,” Shields told The Times about the documentary.
I might say, “Oh, it was the time back then,” or “Oh, it was art.” But I don’t know why she thought it was okay. I don’t know.
Later, Shields had to do parts in Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, both of which had naked and s**ual sequences.
In the first, her character was often taking off her clothes and having. She and her co-star Christopher Atkins, who was 18 at the time, were having s**. Shields was 14 years old.
She said that filmmakers pushed.
That same year, she also made history by being the youngest person to be on the cover of Vogue.
Shields participated in the romantic drama Endless Love the next year. She played a teenager in love who couldn’t see her childhood beau.
Her Calvin Klein Jeans campaign, on the other hand, is what actually made her a famous. Some of the pictures in the ad showed her without a top on, while others showed her in bed wearing a short skirt in a variety of stances that were just as obscene and suggestive as the ones with her topless.
In other parts of the documentary, Shields talks about a s**ual @ssault that made her feel guilty for years later. Shields was in her 20s and at the lowest point in her career when the terrible thing happened.
She talked about how she had just finished supper with a Hollywood executive and hoped to get a part in a movie after that. Instead, he made her summon a cab to his hotel room, where he attacked her.
She says in the documentary that I didn’t fight. I just stood still.
Things got worse when the actress started blaming herself for what had happened and thinking about all the minor things that transpired that night.
I kept saying, “I shouldn’t have done that.” Why did I go up with him? “I shouldn’t have had that drink with dinner.”
She remembers that it was quite easy to separate because it was old news by then. And since it was a choice between fighting and running away. You couldn’t fight, so you just left your body. “You aren’t there.” It didn’t happen.
She learnt how to detach so she could get over the memory.
I had always felt that I wasn’t connected to my body. “From my s**uality,” she says. Shields said, “I was mostly a cover girl,” pointing to her neck and above. “And it was just easier to shut myself off.” I was good at it.
Now, she’s talking about what happened to her in the hopes that it would help others not feel alone.
Everyone deals with their trauma in their own time. The 60-year-old said, “I want to be an advocate for women to be able to speak their truth.”
Like a bull in a china shop, I always kept going… “I will not lose.”