Brooke Shields says she is "surprised that she survived" the celebrity of children in a new documentary
The actor is thinking about his controversial career in the next Pretty Baby film: Brooke Shields.
Putting children at work in the media is a complicated concept in itself, but Brooke Shields' child-star The career is particularly controversial. The star became a model and an actor at an early age and was therefore sexualized before she was old enough to fully understand what was going on. Some of the most infamous moments in his career include playing a child sold for sex at 11 years old Pretty baby , featuring at 14 years old (and having a double adult body) in the maturity film The blue lagoon , and the AD of Jeans Calvin Klein Suggestive She drew at the age of 15.
Now Shields reflects on his child of celebrity in the documentary Nice baby: Brooke Shields , which will broadcast on Hulu from April 3. Lana Wilson explore. Shields also says in a new trailer for the documentary she "surprised" that she survived everything. Continue to read to find out more.
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She is surprised to have succeeded in her high level childhood.
A new trailer for Pretty baby Includes images of the career in the child and star of Shields adolescents, as well as comments on how she was sexualized and obsessed in the media. A clip shows a adult male talk show leader calling her "exquisite young woman".
"I am surprised to have survived all of this," said Shields in the film. She also says that being referred "again and again" like "a pretty face" affected her negatively. "It has always been assembled," said the actor.
She found her confidence after being controlled by others.
Shields also says in the trailer that as a young star, she "had trouble finding her own voice" and that she "was not said that it was important to have an agency". Despite the little control she felt when she worked in her childhood and her adolescence, Shields notes: "I found my confidence and I thought:" I can have my own opinion. ""
Due to the projects she carried out and the way she was discussed in the media and pop culture, Shields felt that others thought that her appearance was the most important thing about her. "Now it's like, I am allowed to be a human being," she said.
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His mother suffered from alcoholism.
Mother of shields, Teri shields , who brought her daughter into the industry and died in 2012, suffered from alcoholism. In an interview in 2021 with The Guardian, Shields said she was concentrated By helping her mother, which she thinks prevented her from following the troubled path that some stars children. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"I talk a lot about therapy a lot, but I think because I was so ..." she said. "I had to keep my mother alive. The focal point for me was to keep her alive, because it was both alone in the world, in my opinion."
She also declared in this interview that, despite some to blame Teri for having placed it in certain situations, she "never did something [she] did not want to do". Asked if she would have let her own daughters be in a film like Pretty baby , Shields replied: "In 1977, probably. Now, I don't know if I would. It was a different era." (Shields has two daughters with husband Chris Henchy : 19 years old Sorbier of birds and 16 years old Gray .)
His thoughts on his celebrity of the child have evolved.
In a recent interview with People , Shields explained that She had to treat What she had experienced before she could work on the documentary.
"It took me so long to treat it, so I was never ready before," she said. "I had to treat it in my own way and on my own conditions."
THE Sudden Susan Star explained more: "I almost found myself defending myself and that was what I thought was interesting. Because I started to think things like:" Oh, it was a different period. "I was standing for my mother to my daughters, but then my daughter turned her back on me and said," Well, would you let me do it? "And I thought it was just such a revealing thing. It made me face injustice more honestly than I think I could never allow myself emotionally at the time. "
She says that she is "lucky" that she has come out "relatively unscathed".
Shields also said People That she thinks she has developed certain defense mechanisms when he was a child.
"I was so closed that I didn't even know how to be uncomfortable," she said. "I didn't have that" ooh something is wrong and it seems scary. "I would forget it at the minute queen of denial."
Echoing what she says in the documentary, Shields said looking at the images: "When you see everything in one time, I think, how did this little girl survived? How did she succeeded in keeping her sense of humor and not being bored and keeping an open heart and all these things? "She added laughing," You just think, oh, I am very lucky that I am relatively unscathed. "
