One of the most successful supermodels in the world is Brooke Shields. Her amazing talent and attractiveness have helped her establish herself on the movie screen as well as the runway.
However, the 57-year-old beauty legend has faced her share of critics who have attempted to undermine her achievements. Since Shields was a young child, her mother Teri has been her manager, and now the actress is talking openly about their relationship.
She shared, “I would walk backwards out of rooms, and he’d say: ‘No, I want to grab onto you,’” Shields said. “He really celebrated my womanliness and my body. And I needed a man to celebrate me.”
From 1997 till 1999, she was wed to Andre Agassi. She made her Hollywood debut as an actor in her teens, but it was her famous Calvin Klein jeans commercial, which Richard Avedon filmed in 1980, that cemented her as the star she is today.
While the actress was always considered beautiful by the masses, she shares how there would always be criticism about her.
She said, “I modeled swimwear when I was 15, and even then I didn’t think I had a swimsuit body.”
“I was a cover girl, not a supermodel. I was ‘neck up’ — the face, the eyebrows — and I was always described as ‘athletic’; ‘not rail-thin’; ‘not a runway model.’ Those messages, they seep into your consciousness,” the actress finished.
She claimed to have given the role her all and to have taken care of her appearance.
“I knew that if I didn’t look my best, I’d be embarrassed and mad at myself. I stopped drinking beer and wine, and I worked out three times a week. I was the best version of myself,” she said, adding,
“I was also hungry.”
The fact that even a stunningly beautiful person like Brooke Shields had insecurities is shocking. Her own mother and other critics attempted to make her feel inferior, even though the world saw her as lovely.
