Brooke Shields battled to stop teenage daughter getting into modelling: ‘I fought for so long!’
msn.comBrooke Shields was against her teenage daughter going into modelling. ‘The Blue Lagoon’ actress, 58, who has spoken out about being raped by a movie executive and feeling sexualised as a child star, is now happily settled with TV writer Chris Henchy, 59, and their two daughters, Rowan, 20, and Grier, 17, and said she “fought for so long” to keep her younger girl out of the business, but has realised things are “different” than when she started in acting.
She said about Grier’s blossoming modelling career on ‘Live with Kelly and Mark’: “The rules have changed since I was (a model. ) “I fought it for so long.
It’s such a different industry now than it was. ” Brooke said Grier is doing “little things here and there”, but admitted social media still piled pressure on models.
She added: “We didn’t have social media when I was a model,” and branded the modelling industry a “rat race”. Brooke did modelling shoots for print publications, and said she was horrified Grier was “interested in runway”.
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