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4 hours ago
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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
a day ago
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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."
Mercury
a day ago
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Brooke Shields celebrates 60th birthday with bikini shoot
Don't miss out on the headlines from Entertainment. Followed categories will be added to My News. Brooke Shields celebrated her 60th birthday in paradise. The Blue Lagoon actress took to Instagram Saturday to share photos of herself rocking a black bikini while lounging on a hammock on the beach. 'Woke up in Paradise … and in a new decade of life,' she captioned the post. 'This is 60! Thank you for all the birthday love.' Shields styled her beach day look with a wide-brimmed hat and choker necklace. Brooke Shields posted images to her Instagram to celebrate her 60th birthday. Picture: Instagram. Shields celebrated the milestone in a bikini. Picture: Instagram. The Hollywood star didn't disclose the tropical location where she was enjoying her milestone birthday. In honour of the big day, her haircare brand, Commence, also shared 'a non-exhaustive list' of 'propaganda' she refuses to believe as she gets older. 'That 60 means slowing down,' read text on an Instagram Reel of Shields at a photo shoot. 'That change is only for your twenties. 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.' Shields previously revealed she's against using Botox on herself. Picture: Getty. Shields got candid about ageing in a November 2023 interview with Glamour magazine, confessing she's afraid of certain cosmetic injectables. 'I'm scared of not looking like myself; the times that I've had Botox, I end up with this Spock eye and I'm like, 'I don't look like myself,'' she said at the time. 'But I'll get Fraxels, and peels, and whatever the newest thing is, and I'll try it. I just don't want to not look like myself.' But Shields has maintained her youthful glow; she stunned as she hit the beach in another bikini in April. At the time, the former model flaunted her figure while lying in the sand in the Bahamas wearing a black-and-white two-piece. The Mother of the Bride star went makeup-free, accessorising with a gold necklace and statement bracelets. This story originally appeared on Page Six and is republished here with permission. Originally published as Brooke Shields celebrates 60th birthday with bikini shoot
Daily Mail
a day ago
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- Daily Mail
Brooke Shields brands Meghan 'too precious and serious' as she recalls interrupting her in front of thousands of people
Brooke Shields has revealed she interrupted Meghan Markle live on stage in front of thousands of people - because, she says, the Duchess of Sussex was being 'too precious' in her speech about gender equality. The 60-year-old Hollywood actress shared the anecdote on the latest episode of India Hicks ' podcast, which was released over the weekend. Brooke was discussing the International Women's Day panel in Austin, Texas, from March 2024, where she had been joined by Meghan on stage. When the discussion began, and the former Suits star, 43, started answering Katie's opening question, Brooke said the tone quickly became overly serious. 'Katie asks the first question to Meghan and talks about how at a young age, she was already advocating for women, etcetera, etcetera,' Brooke explained. '[Meghan] 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 washing dishes and only soap for 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. And when I was 11, I wrote my first letter and when I was 11...' and she kept saying she was 11! She wrote to the company, they changed the text, they changed the commercial.' At that point, Brooke said, she couldn't resist breaking the tension in the room - and the earnestness of Meghan's response. '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,' Brooke told the audience. 'I said, 'Well, when I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.' 'The place went insane. And then luckily, it was more relaxed after that.' The comment was a reference to Brooke's breakout role as a child star in the controversial 1978 film Pretty Baby, in which she played a child sex worker - a role that sparked debate at the time and has remained the subject of intense scrutiny in the decades since. In Austin, the moment broke the ice, as the crowd broke out into laughter. 'I was like, oh, I hope she doesn't think I'm rude. I'm not being rude,' Brooke added. India - daughter of Lady Pamela Mountbatten, a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, and the late interior designer David Hicks, agreed that lightening the serious mood Meghan created was the right thing to do. 'I think it's genius,' she said. Reflecting on the exchange, Brooke added: '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.' Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, Katie Couric, Brooke Shields and Nancy Wang Yuen take part in the keynote 'Breaking Barrier, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen' Despite the crowd's response, Brooke acknowledged that the moment might not have gone down quite so well with Meghan herself. 'This was in front of [thousands of people]. I mean, it was crazy,' she said. 'And then afterwards, she was kind of like, oh, okay. And I was like, let's just have some fun with it.' Brooke added: 'I don't know if you'll have to cut this out.' Meghan had been telling an anecdote she's referred to on many occasions about fighting a 'sexist' Proctor & Gamble commercial when she was just 11 years old. Aged 11, Meghan wrote to Procter & Gamble to object to sexism in a dish soap advert which included the line: 'Mothers around America are fighting greasy pots and pans.' She asked them to change the advert to 'people all over America' and the company amended the language. She subsequently appeared in an interview on Nick News in 1993, saying she was 'furious' at the advert for P&G's Ivory Clear. Beaming with pride, Meghan had happily agreed to share the story with the crowd - having mentioned it at multiple events over the years. 'I was 11 years old, about 11 years old, and I had seen a commercial on TV for a dishwashing liquid, and the boys in my class at the time... you know it said, 'Women all over America are fighting greasy pots and pans,' and the boys said, 'Yeah that's where women belong, in the kitchen,' Meghan recalled. 'And at 11, I just found that infuriating, and [so] I ended up writing lots of letters, I put pen to paper, and they ended up changing the commercial to 'people all over America'. 'It's funny looking back at it now because it was before social media that had such a reach. 'I was just an 11-year-old with a pen and paper, but it just goes to show that if you know there's something wrong and you're using your voice to advocate in the direction of what is right, that can really land and resonate, and make a huge change for a lot of people. 'So, your voice is not small, it just needs to be heard.' It's one of Meghan's go-to tales, which she has previously credited with starting her life's 'trajectory' of speaking up against 'inequality'. The Duchess often uses the childhood tale in her speeches and interviews, despite some questions being raised about its validity. Indeed, when Meghan tried to reference the letter her 11-year-old self wrote to P&G in her 2017 Vanity Fair cover, it was reportedly cut after it failed to pass the magazine's fact-checking. 'I don't think it is right for kids to grow up thinking that mom does everything,' Markle told Nick News in 1993. 'If you see something that you don't like or offended by on television or any other place, write letters and send them to the right people and you can really make a difference, not just for yourself but for lots of other people.' Young Meghan sent the letter to famed civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred, then-first lady Hillary Clinton, and Nick News anchor Linda Ellerbee. After Ellerbee received the letter, she and a camera crew from her show went to meet Markle. Meghan said she received letters of encouragement back from all three, including Clinton, and said it felt 'amazing' during her 2015 speech at the UN. But the account was allegedly stripped out of a Vanity Fair cover story in 2017 after 'fact checkers raised questions about its accuracy,' a biography claimed in 2022 - as no evidence could be found of Meghan receiving a response from Clinton. The anecdote was cut from the cover story 'after consulting P&G and advertising historians,' according to Tom Bower's book Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors. In an extract from the book printed in The Times, he added: 'They could also find no evidence, as Meghan claimed, that she received a reply from [Hilary] Clinton. 'Unknown to Kashner, Thomas Markle knew Clinton and P&G had not replied to Meghan. The success of her 'campaign' was fictitious, invented by an adoring father. It's also unclear whether Meghan's letter alone persuaded P&G to change the advert. Nevertheless, it's a story Meghan loves to tell - and was the first subject of her Archetypes podcast with Spotify, spending four minutes on the recollection before turning to her guest, Serena Williams. Recalling the letter in 2018, she said: 'Truth be told, at 11 I don't think I even knew what sexism meant.' She continued: 'I just knew that something struck me internally that was telling me it was wrong. 'And using that as my moral compass and moving through from the age of 11, at that age I was able to change this commercial.' She added: 'It really set up the trajectory for me to say, if there was a wrong, if there is a lack of justice, and there is an inequality, then someone needs to do something. And why not me?' In 2015, she recalled the incident during a speech at the United Nations - again to mark International Women's Day. 'I remember feeling shocked and angry and also just feeling so hurt,' Markle said in the speech. 'It just wasn't right and something needed to be done.' She said at the time that her father, Thomas Markle, had inspired her to bring about change. 'He encouraged me to write letters, so I did — to the most powerful people I could think of,' Meghan shared. And, once again in 2019, she discussed the exchange during a panel discussion, alongside musician Annie Lennox and former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard, hosted by King's College London for the annual celebration of women. Meghan, who was pregnant with son Archie at the time, dished: 'Truth be told, at 11 I don't think I even knew what sexism meant. I just knew that something struck me internally that was telling me it was wrong, and I knew that it was wrong. 'And using that as my moral compass and moving through from the age of 11, at that age I was able to change this commercial.' She added: 'It really set up the trajectory for me to say, if there was a wrong, if there is a lack of justice, and there is an inequality, then someone needs to do something. And why not me?' Despite the disagreement between P&G and a young Meghan, any rift seemed to be put to bed in 2021, when Meghan and Harry's Archewell Foundation joined forces with the US consumer goods giant. Over the weekend, Meghan shared an extra scene from her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, that 'didn't make it' into the final edit. In the video, filmed in a rented $8million mansion near her and Prince Harry 's Montecito home, Meghan was joined by wellness therapist Randi Karin as she explained how to properly cut a pineapple. Meghan said: 'A trick that people do with pineapple instead of just cutting it. To make the perfect little bite, you follow the wedge. 'Nature has given you all the cues on how to have a perfect taste of something.' She then cut around the pattern on the outside of the pineapple, and used the skin to pull out a chunk of the fruit before taking a bite. Karin then followed her lead, managing to perfect the hack, and said: 'Oh, how fun is that!' However, royal watchers were less convinced and thought Meghan was just stating the obvious - while others noted the 'trick' has been around for years and regularly circulates on social media platforms such as Facebook and Pinterest. She also revealed that season two of the show has finished filming and looks set to release this summer. Meghan took the opportunity to tease 'all the fun to come' with her brand As Ever - which sold out earlier this year, and has yet to restock. She said: 'Great weekend to rewatch or catch up on the show as we gear up for Season 2 this summer and all the fun to come with As Ever.' News of 'With Love, Meghan' being renewed for a second season came in March, shortly after the first eight episodes of series one released on Netflix. Despite the show being largely panned by media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, the controversy that continues to surround Meghan is said to be the reason TV bosses were convinced to renew. The episodes feature Meghan inviting famous friends to a California estate where she shares cooking, gardening and hosting tips. However, the series was slammed by reviewers as 'gormless lifestyle filler' with a 'tangible desperation' following its release. Others said it shows the Duchess is 'attempting to cling to fame by any means possible', while another described how she was 'joylessly filling kids' party bags with seeds'. Guardian TV writer Stuart Heritage said the series was 'so pointless it might be the Sussexes' last TV show' and 'might also be the final thing she makes for Netflix'. The Telegraph gave the show just two stars. In a review, they said the series was an 'exercise in narcissism, filled with extravagant brunches, celebrity pals and business plugs'.
News.com.au
2 days ago
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Brooke Shields celebrates 60th birthday with bikini shoot
Brooke Shields celebrated her 60th birthday in paradise. The Blue Lagoon actress took to Instagram Saturday to share photos of herself rocking a black bikini while lounging on a hammock on the beach. 'Woke up in Paradise … and in a new decade of life,' she captioned the post. 'This is 60! Thank you for all the birthday love.' Shields styled her beach day look with a wide-brimmed hat and choker necklace. The Hollywood star didn't disclose the tropical location where she was enjoying her milestone birthday. In honour of the big day, her haircare brand, Commence, also shared 'a non-exhaustive list' of 'propaganda' she refuses to believe as she gets older. 'That 60 means slowing down,' read text on an Instagram Reel of Shields at a photo shoot. 'That change is only for your twenties. 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.' Shields got candid about ageing in a November 2023 interview with Glamour magazine, confessing she's afraid of certain cosmetic injectables. 'I'm scared of not looking like myself; the times that I've had Botox, I end up with this Spock eye and I'm like, 'I don't look like myself,'' she said at the time. 'But I'll get Fraxels, and peels, and whatever the newest thing is, and I'll try it. I just don't want to not look like myself.' But Shields has maintained her youthful glow; she stunned as she hit the beach in another bikini in April. At the time, the former model flaunted her figure while lying in the sand in the Bahamas wearing a black-and-white two-piece. The Mother of the Bride star went makeup-free, accessorising with a gold necklace and statement bracelets. This story originally appeared on Page Six
