Brooke Shields reflected on being sexualized as a child star in Hollywood. The 58-year-old actress rose to fame at the age of 11 when she played a child prostitute in the controversial 1978 film "Pretty Baby," which featured Shields in multiple nude scenes.
As a 10-year-old, Shields posed naked for the Playboy publication Sugar’n’Spice. On Friday, Shields marked International Women's Day as she appeared alongside Meghan Markle and Katie Couric on the SXSW panel, "Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen." During the panel discussion, she weighed on the "sexualization" of young women, especially in our country. "I was at the center of it," Shields said. "And I was promoting it and I was doing it." She continued, "And I was lucky because I was surrounded by a very strong mom.
I never did move to Hollywood. I always went to regular school." "So I had this sort of community around me that was protecting me, buoying me.
And so I did not become the type of statistic that Hollywood created," Shields added. "Hollywood is predicated on eating its young." Shields' late mother Teri managed her career from the time she made her modeling debut at 11 months old into her 20s and often faced backlash for allowing her daughter to take on racy roles at a young age.Teri died at age 79 in 2012 after a long illness related to dementia.
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