Brooke Shields turns 60: From modeling, 'Blue Lagoon' to 'Mother of the Bride' and today
Brooke Shields turns 60: From modeling, 'Blue Lagoon' to 'Mother of the Bride' and today
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Fox News
a day ago
- Fox News
Brooke Shields calls out Meghan Markle's gender equality story as 'too precious'
Brooke Shields once dubbed Meghan Markle as "too precious." During a recent appearance on India Hicks's podcast, the 60-year-old actress recalled the moment she interrupted the Duchess of Sussex during a panel at the South by Southwest Festival last year after the former royal seemed to have lost the audience's attention with an anecdote from her childhood. To mark International Women's Day, Katie Couric asked the panel a question related to gender equality – and Markle answered right away. "Katie asks the first question to Meghan and she talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women," Shields said, per Sky News. Markle, who shared the exact same story with Vanity Fair in 2017, referenced the time she wrote a letter to a company that promoted women washing dishes. "She starts telling a story about how when she was 11 – and she keeps saying, 'Well, when I was 11, I saw this commercial and they were talking about how washing dishes was for women. And she said, 'I didn't think only women wash dishes. It wasn't fair. So I wrote to the company.'" "It was just too precious, and I was like, they're not going to want to sit here for 45 minutes and listen to anybody be precious or serious." Shields recalled interrupting Markle during the panel. "I go, 'Excuse me, I'm so sorry, I've got to interrupt you there for one minute.' I was trying not to be rude, but I wanted to be funny because it was so serious. 'I just want to give everybody here a context as to how we're different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.'" Shields, who earned a laugh from the audience, was referring to her role in the 1978 film, "Pretty Baby." "The place went insane. And then luckily, it was more relaxed after that," Shields said. During the same panel, Shields reflected on being sexualized as a child star in Hollywood. The actress rose to fame at the age of 11 when she played a child prostitute in "Pretty Baby," which featured Shields in multiple nude scenes. As a 10-year-old, Shields posed naked for the Playboy publication Sugar'n'Spice. "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." Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume contributed to this post.
Fox News
2 days ago
- Fox News
Brooke Shields celebrates 60th birthday in bikini on the beach
Brooke Shields is proving age is just a number with new social media posts. The "Mother of the Bride" star took to Instagram over the weekend to celebrate her 60th birthday with photos of her lounging on the beach in her bikini. "Woke up today in paradise… and in a new decade of life! This is 6️⃣0️⃣! Thank you for all of the birthday love," she captioned the post. The photos featured Shields sitting in a hammock on the shore in a black bikini, which she accessorized with a sun hat and a chunky gold chain choker and sand-covered feet. Her famous friends quickly flooded the comments sections with well-wishes, with Christie Brinkley writing "Happy Birthday Beauty 60 looks GREAT on you," and Ricki Lake adding, "Yes Queen! Happy milestone Birthday!" In a separate Instagram post, shared on the account of her haircare brand, Commence, Shields spelled out "propaganda we're not falling for" anymore, writing in the caption, "We're not making any more time for nonsense." "That 60 means slowing down. That change is only for your twenties," the list written on the screen said. "That it's too late to learn something new. That my best days are in the rearview. That women 'of a certain age' aren't a force to be reckoned with. That I don't deserve products made specifically for me. That not every day can be a good hair day." "Woke up today in paradise… and in a new decade of life! This is 6️⃣0️⃣! Thank you for all of the birthday love." Shields is no stranger to sharing bikini photos. The star took to Instagram in April, to share photos from her time in the Bahamas, in which she posed on the beach in a black and white bikini. Having started her career at a young age, Shields has often spoken out about how difficult it was to grow up in the spotlight, telling AARP The Magazine in March 2024 she felt as if beauty "was a burden and a responsibility," but that now it "means freedom." "The 'Pretty Baby' documentary definitely empowered me," she explained. "I had never seen my life in its entirety. It made me feel very proud of my resilience and that little girl. I would be shocked as a kid to know that there would come a time that I would feel like I was enough. I would be shocked if I knew that I would one day really be confident and like myself." The 2023 documentary, "Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields," chronicled the actress' life as a sexualized young actress and model, "to a woman who embraces her identity and voice," according to the description on Hulu. When speaking with AARP The Magazine, she explained she has grown accustomed to hearing other people's opinions about her appearance, saying "it's an affront to people if Brooke Shields gets older." "You can't grow up, you cannot age. It's disappointing to them that I don't have the same face I had when I was 16," she said. "But it's been so liberating for me not to worry about it all the time. The pressure of being skinny is just so exhausting. I like food, and I like tequila!" She further discussed aging in Hollywood in her memoir, "Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old."
Yahoo
3 days ago
- Yahoo
Brooke Shields Gets Sweet 60th Birthday Tribute From Daughters Rowan and Grier
Brooke Shields' daughters Rowan and Grier Henchy have paid tribute to their mom on her 60th birthday. 'Happy birthday to my role model, partner in crime, and best friend. Thank you for always being my rock,' Rowan, 22, wrote via her Instagram Story on Saturday, May 31. Rowan shared multiple family photos in honor of Shields' milestone birthday on Saturday, in addition to referring to her mom as 'everyone's favorite girl boss' in one slide. Grier, 19, called Shields 'the coolest mama I know' and shared a vintage picture of her mother kissing her as a baby. 'Happy birthday mama,' Grier added via her Instagram Story. Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy's Family Album With Daughters Rowan and Grier: Photos Shields celebrated her special day by posing in a skimpy black bikini while she relaxed on a beachside hammock. 'Woke up today in paradise… and in a new decade of life! This is 6️⃣0️⃣! Thank you for all of the birthday love,' the Blue Lagoon actress, 60, wrote via Instagram. Shields definitely received lots of 'birthday love' on her post, with fellow former teen idol Shaun Cassidy, Monica Lewinsky and Sophia Bush among those joining in on the celebration. 'Wheeee! Level sixty! I hear it's great over here,' supermodel Paulina Porizkova chimed in. Ricki Lake added, 'Yes Queen! Happy milestone Birthday!' Shields shares her two daughters with Chris Henchy, the writer-producer she married in 2001. (She was previously married to tennis star Andre Agassi between 1997 and 1999.) In April, Chris came up with a wonderful surprise for daughter Grier when it looked like he'd miss her 19th birthday. Shields burst into tears in a heartwarming video showing Chris dropping in for Grier's birthday dinner completely unannounced. Brooke Shields Gets Matching Tattoos With Her Two Daughters: 'There's Nothing Like Being a Mama' 'Dad of the century surprised @grierhhenchy for her birthday … but really he surprised me and @rowanhenchyy too!!!' Shields revealed via Instagram. 'We all cried … he said it was just a flight ❤️.' The Pretty Baby star previously shared an emotional clip shot when she dropped Grier off at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in August 2024. (Rowan also attended Wake Forest.) 'I sat here a year ago and I watched my big girl leave, and I'm back on this porch and I am now officially an empty nester … It's not easy for the moms,' Shields recalled in the video. 'It's just so weird. So weird that she's not here.' She went on, 'It was really hard and then she started crying, Then I really started crying. And then I cried a good portion of the ride home. I'm an empty nester … Wow.' Her husband Chris is a veteran film and TV writer who has frequently collaborated with Will Ferrell. He produced both Eastbound & Down and Entourage, as well as directing Impractical Jokers: The Movie. The couple got engaged during a trip to Mexico in 2000 before tying the knot the following year in a beachside wedding on Catalina Island. The pair are still going strong 24 years later, though Shields admitted in her 2025 memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman that their sex life is a work-in-progress. She wrote about struggling with sexuality because of the way her romantic relationships impacted her late mom, Teri Shields. Brooke Shields Reflects on Falling-Out With Tom Cruise, Confirms He 'Eventually' Apologized 'My connection with my boyfriend was a personal affront to [my mom], because having a man in my life in such a real way meant that she was losing me,' she wrote. 'Oh, how I wish I'd just let the lust take over! But regrettably I was never able to do that.' Shields went on, 'Here I am, more than 35 years later, sometimes pretending I'm asleep when I know Chris is in the mood. That has nothing to do with Chris — he's hot! He's been working out at a boxing gym recently, and he looks incredible.' The Suddenly Susan actress made it clear that Chris is 'not at all the problem' but that she's still processing some emotional and physical issues surrounding sex.
