More than meets the eye. Brooke Shields reflected on her highs and lows in the spotlight in her revealing documentary, Pretty Baby.“I’m amazed that I survived any of it,” Shields, 57, hinted in the trailer before the two-part documentary hit Hulu on Monday, April 3.The project premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and was helmed by director Lana Wilson, who worked on Taylor Swift‘s Miss Americana documentary. “I’m not interested in famous-person problems.
What I am interested in is how fame can amplify and supercharge relatable problems,” Wilson told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this year. “[Brooke’s] life has been extreme and utterly unique, but her experience of being a woman in America is horrifyingly relatable.”Pretty Baby derived its name from the controversial 1978 film directed by Louis Malle, in which Shields starred as a child prostitute.
She was barely a teenager when working on the movie, and her mother, Teri Shields, faced backlash at the time for allowing her daughter to participate in PDA scenes.In order to view the video, please allow Manage CookiesSeveral of Brooke’s famous friends were asked to weigh in for the documentary, including fellow former child star Drew Barrymore. “I’ve been on those sets, you’re having fun, you don’t think about it until later,” the Drew Barrymore Show host, 48, told the cameras while discussing the scandalous movie. “There is an aftermath that then cycles in your head of like, ‘Was that OK?'”The Jane the Virgin alum, for her part, confessed: “I think I learned to compartmentalize at such an early age and it was a survival technique.”Brooke’s complex relationship with her late mother and former manager is a large focus of the documentary, but the actress also
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