Brooke Shields’s new book about embracing ageing fails to realise one crucial thing
The IndependentSign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And he thought he had done me a favor by throwing in a ‘bonus procedure.’” open image in gallery Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields was 11 years old when she played a child prostitute in Louis Malle’s 1978 film It’s perhaps the only quote-unquote bombshell in a memoir that mostly trades in generalities. Turns out they’re true!” A lot of what Shields talks about is nothing new, and yet there is still value in a book like this being published – the same way there is value in Demi Moore speaking out about ageism in Hollywood, and Naomi Watts getting candid about menopause. open image in gallery Like mother, like daughter: Brooke Shields pictured together with her teenage daughter, Grier Shields said she wrote the book so that other women would feel less alone. And, to be totally honeest, there have been times when it’s made me feel like a disappointment.” open image in gallery ‘I’d arrived at a place of self-acceptance And yet, as my forties progressed into my fifties, I began to notice that external perceptions didn’t seem to match up with my internal sense of self’ But there are silver linings to getting older, Shields continues to insist.
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