5 bombshell revelations from Brooke Shields' new memoir — From Tom Cruise to fat-shaming

Brooke Shields spares no one in her new memoir. Related Brooke Shields reveals a doctor performed vaginal rejuvenation on her without consent Here are five shocking revelations from "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman." In her new memoir, Shields reveals that she was "gobsmacked" by Cruise's comments, adding his perspective was “an interesting opinion, coming from someone without ovaries." I might have been content to sit back while this very famous man hijacked my experience to advance his own agenda.” Shields continues, “Sitting quietly and letting myself be attacked might have been my approach a decade earlier — I might have even regretted sharing my story or felt insecure that maybe my career was stalling while a powerful male movie star was singling me out, sure that I’d never stand a chance in that fight — but now I was emboldened by life experience." From the neck up, I was Brooke Shields, but it was like my body existed in a different reality.” The star reveals that she attempted to bring her concerns to her husband but “He would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.’" “However when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ I could never have expected his response.” Shields writes that his response to that was, “'I love you too much to let you get big and fat,'" “I definitely did not see that coming and must admit I started to spin a bit.