The 57-year-old actress began her career in Hollywood with the filming of the movie Pretty Baby in 1978. At that time, Brooke was only 11 years old, she got the role of a prostitute. On the set, the schoolgirl had to take off her clothes and kiss her 27-year-old partner Keith Carradine.
After the success of the picture, Shields continued to participate in provocative projects. The Manhattan native played an iconic role in the movie “The Blue Lagoon” at the age of 14, and a year later, Brooke became the heroine of the Calvin Klein Jeans campaign. On the set, the young actress posed topless. When Brooke became famous, one of the photographers who was a family member sold nude photos of her taken at the age of 10 for publication in Playboy.
On the set of the documentary project Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the star admitted that she suffered all her life because of an industry that oversexualized her. Shields assured that her own daughters did not want to watch it. “It’s child pornography.” Would you let us do this at 11 years old?” asked Rowan’s eldest daughter. The actress answered this question in the negative.
Brooke admitted that she still can’t understand her own mother, Terry, who acted as her manager. According to the star, her parent did not even try to protect her from such an experience. “It was hard for me not to justify my mother to them. But when they asked, I thought, “Oh my God, I’m going to have to admit it.” Of course I could have said, “Oh, that was many years ago” or “That’s art.” I don’t know why she thought it was normal. I don’t know, “opened the artist.
Shields’ mother died in 2012 due to problems with alcohol addiction. The actress did not feel anger towards her parents because she knew that she was an unreliable person. Brooke was able to talk about personal experiences after years of working with a psychologist. According to her words, the mother of two children avoided the topic even in her books.
“It was too much for me to admit, really. The story about it just got me excited. I was the one who defended her,” Brook was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.