[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content] If you haven’t yet seen the Brooke Shields documentary, you probably have NO IDEA what she went through as a child!
We knew the movie star began life as a child model in the ’70s, but we had no idea just how sketchy that work was in those days.
For those who haven’t yet seen Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, the child star’s mother, model Teri Shields, was also her manager early on.
She got her started posing as a baby for Ivory Soap at just 11 months old. By 12 she had her first starring role in a movie, playing a child prostitute in a film called Pretty Baby — the doc’s namesake, and at 14 she was starring in The Blue Lagoon and posing in sexualized Calvin Klein ads. Related: About That Time Brooke Was Called ‘Million-Dollar Jailbait’… All of that is boundary-pushing enough.
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