Brooke Shields Tearily Recalls Watching Herself as a ‘Little Girl’ in New Documentary
glamour.com, which will air on Hulu on April 3, is hard to watch. At the New York City premiere on Wednesday, March 29, the audience collectively gasped at footage of 11-year-old Brooke (and 15-year-old Brooke, and 18-year-old Brooke) fielding blunt and often offensive questions from grown men during televised interviews.
Behind me in the theater, one woman audibly yelped as a male interviewer read aloud to Brooke and her mother, Teri Shields, a description of Teri from a magazine profile which noted the physical effects of her drinking habits—bags under her eyes and “dry skin”—followed by, “Do you love your mother?” “I had never seen my whole life in it's entirety, start to finish,” Shields told Glamour editor-in-chief Samantha Barry during a panel that followed the premiere. “I'm a very good compartmentalizing human being and that's how, I think, I stayed alive.”From left: Glamour's Samantha Barry, Lana Wilson, Brooke Shields, Ali Wentworth, and George Stephanopoulos.
teared up as she reflected on those TV interviews, as well as the explicit films like Pretty Baby and that she starred in as a child. “To look at all of it, to watch the progression of that little girl, and see how her voice changed—you know there's something really… I'm very proud that I found my voice.
You can hear my voice. I'm proud of all the work I've done. I'm proud that I've come this far.” Shields was joined on stage by Pretty Baby director Lana Wilson, whose directing credits include , as well as executive producers Ali Wentworth and George Stephanopoulos.
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