The scandalous and harsh childhood of Brooke Shields: her mother exploited her and even turned her into a s-xual object when she was just a girl
Brooke Shields is 56 years old and also has a career, since by design and the wish of her mother, she began working in commercials before she was one year old. The owner of a captivating beauty, she soon became a television success and she also debuted in the cinema. Obsessed with the "perfection" of her daughter, she led her to participate in jobs that were not appropriate for her age, which left her with serious emotional consequences.
Brooke Shields is 56 years old and has participated in more than 80 movies and television series. She appeared in her first commercial when she was an 11-month-old baby due to the insistence of her mother, who, dazzled by her daughter's beauty, became obsessed with making her a star from her earliest years. life of her And she didn't stop until she did.
She rose to international fame in The Blue Lagoon, the 1980 film she starred in at age 14, which included erotic scenes as it told the story of two boys shipwrecked on an island paradise and growing up together. Although this was not the first time that she Brooke appeared as a s-xual object.
Teri, her mother, was someone who did not doubt what she wanted for her daughter almost from the moment she was born since, to the contract that she had already signed for her when she was just a baby, other jobs were added to which she submitted and which are highly questionable. In 1975, when she was just 10 years old, she allowed herself to pose n-de in a bathtub for photographer Gary Gross for a job for Sugar and Spice, a Playboy magazine supplement with artistically aspirational erotic images. Her mother then charged $450 for the session.
Years later, the actress would ask the Supreme Court of Manhattan, in New York, to prohibit the reprinting of the images, saying: "These photos do not represent me as I am today", since she feared that they would harm her career. .
Being a pre-adolescent - she was 12 - she played a prostitute in the movie Pretty Baby, under the orders of Louis Malle, which already aroused controversy at that time.
When she turned 15, she revolutionized the fashion industry with her first advertising campaign that went around the world by starring in the iconic Calvin Klein ad in which she famously uttered the phrase “Do you want to know what comes between me? Calvin and me? Any". More than four decades later, she recounted how she experienced the controversy generated by the television spot directed by Richard Avedon.
The s-xual charge that occurred in the first seconds of the ad was criticized and was banned in many countries. However, at the time, she said that she was not aware of the eroticism behind the video. “I was naive, I didn't think anything about it. I didn't think it had to do with underwear. I didn't see any s-xual connotation. She was a very naive girl. I think it was assumed that I was smarter than I actually was."
However, she recently saw the situation with another look: “At 56 years old I can go back and look at the camera and say: it's true, they are zooming first to my genitals and then they go up to my face, it's true. But s-x has sold since the beginning of time. On every cover I've ever been on, whether I was 15 or any age, there's always something in the look,” she said.
Who was Brooke Shields mother
Teri Schmon was a hairstylist and makeup artist from a humble New Jersey family who fell in love with what looked like a Prince Charming, Francis Shields, a top executive at Revlon and tied to European nobility. The crush was immediate and she quickly became pregnant. The family of the one in love with her did not approve of the situation and paid her to have an abortion, to which the woman did not agree. She gave birth to her daughter on May 31, 1965, although her relationship with Francis ended.
Brooke was raised solely by her, who started taking her to castings when he was still a baby and called her daughter "the most beautiful in the world, the best."
"I was her greatest creation," Brooke would tell in the book that contains her memoirs, alluding to the close relationship they had and the obsession that her mother had with her. “The love was so intense. It was us against the world." At just 7 seven years old, Ella Brooke was working three times a week walking the runway in a New York department store after school.
It was only after Teri's death (in 2012) that the actress was encouraged to talk about her tortuous and complicated relationship. When it came time to find a place to put her mother's ashes, Brooke bought a beautiful silver urn and placed it on the bar in her living room. In this way, she wrote, "she could always stay close to the two most important things in her life: the drink and me."
In her memoir, she talks about her mother's alcoholism, she was an alcoholic, and when she finished filming, she had to look for her in bars. She would often appear with unknown men in the hotel room they shared and orchestrate her young daughter's dates with famous hunks.
That girl who became a s-xual object while underage was dealing with a much bigger problem than she was if she was being s-xualized by the public and Hollywood. The aftermath of that adult life at an inappropriate age generated serious aftereffects: when she became a mother, she suffered from postpartum depression so strong that it led her to think about suicide and that she managed to overcome thanks to having undergone appropriate treatment. .
Despite admitting to having felt embarrassment, having received help, she understood that it is a misunderstood condition: “There are many people out there who think that it is not real, that it is not true, that 'Oh, it's the hormones' when, in fact, "It's something that's completely uncontrollable. It's really painful and it's really scary, and women need a lot of support."
