Brooke Shields: Star from “The Blue Lagoon” is 60 years old

Brooke Shields (60) was a star as a child, in a film whose title speaks volumes: “Pretty Baby”. There is still talk of this at a more mature age when it comes to the actress. On May 31, she turns 60.

You can’t say that she has developed into a very big actress as an adult. Her mortgage from the time of children and teenage was far too heavy. The scenes are still present as half -naked or bare natural beauty with curly mane and bushy eyebrows. She is currently present with her audience with her role in “The Blue Lagoon”. It is the story of two children who are stranded on a tropical island in the South Pacific, gradually grow up and experience their first love. There was Brooke Shields 14.

The four -year -old male actor Christopher Atkins (64) is nominated for his role for the Golden Globe, Shields gets a golden raspberry as a “worst actress” for her.

At that time she is already a celebrity, because at the age of eleven she had received the leading role in “Pretty Baby” by the French star director Louis Malle (1932-1995). She plays (alongside Susan Sarandon) the children’s prostitute Violet, who lives in a brothel in New Orleans.

The film, nominated for the Golden Palm in 1978 at the Cannes Film Festival, also gets good reviews in the USA, but also meets massive rejection. The gossip columnist Rona Barrett describes him as “child pornography”.

Later Brooke Shields said as an adult in an interview with the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” (“SZ”) that it was “nothing greasy” about “because the film was really only beautiful for me”, he was celebrated in Cannes. “I thought we would come back to America and were celebrated here as well. Instead, the media insulted and insulted us, it was shocking how much anger hit me.”

She was already known as a “million dollar baby” in the states. Her father, the businessman Francis Alexander Shields, had married her pregnant mother Teri Schmon, an actress, but was divorced five months after Brooke’s birth and left the small family. The single teri was convinced that her daughter was “the most beautiful child” and that she would help her to make a unique career.

Brooke was photographed for Ivory Soap at the eleven months, after which she worked as a children’s model for the model agency of Eileen Ford. The Honoraries improved the barren household budget. Brooke’s mother got no alimony from the father and further developed the “incredibly lucrative” business with her daughter. “We stuffed all money into a can at home and then we went on vacation. We were able to buy an apartment, a car, nice jewelry, go out to eat well,” recalls the daughter in the “SZ”.

And: “My mother never forced me to do anything … I idolized her. Everything she said sounded like a fantastic idea for me.” In 1977 the “New York Magazine” wrote: “Brooke is twelve. She poses naked. Teri is her mother. She thinks it’s great.”

In 1980, 14-year-old Brooke Shields was the most recent model of all time on the cover of the “Vogue”. In the same year the outrage for advertising for Calvin Kleiner High waves – with the famous slogan: “Do you want to know what is between me and my Calvin Klein Jeans?” Brookes now alcoholic mother Teri is insulted as a “pimp”.

At 16, Brooke Shield’s title character of the news magazine “Time” and earns $ 10,000 a day, it belongs to the New York City Society. Not too much happens afterwards. In 1989 she played the main role in the adventurer film “Brenda Starr”, which is torn by criticism and flopped at the box office. The golden raspberry is awarded to her several times as the worst actress, in 2000 she will even be nominated for the prize as the worst actress of the century. In 1997 and 1998 she received golden globe nominations for her leading role in the TV series “Suddenly Susan”.

At 18, she renounced the whole hustle and bustle – and goes to study. To the Elite University Princeton, three years later she concludes her studies in French literature with a distinction. At that time she dates Supermann actor Dean Cain (58).

At the time, an experience was traumatic that Brooke Shields only reported 35 years later. After her university period, she was raped by a man from the Hollywood haze, not mentioned by name. Three years ago, she told the industry magazine “The Hollywood Reporter” that she hardly fought back and was frozen: “I just thought: ‘Stay alive and go off.'” She needed years of therapy to be able to talk about it at all.

This event may have a decisive influence on this event with men, because in contrast to Hollywood, Brooke Shields has very few life partners. A relationship with the seven-year-old pop star Michael Jackson (1958-2009), whom she met at 13, did not get beyond the Platonic phase, although Jacko made several marriage proposals. They remained close friends, Brooke kept a tearful funeral speech at Jackson’s burial in 2009.

From 1997 to 1999 she was married to US tennis star Andre Agassi (55). “With Andre it felt good to feel smaller than the other because he was so famous and number 1 in the world,” she writes in her book “Brooke Shields must not grow old – thoughts on aging as a woman”. Then to determine: “My mother was a very controlling force in my life. When I married my first husband Andre Agassi, I went into another controlling relationship. For a while I did everything he wanted.” In 1999 she divorced.

After Agassi, she meets the TV authors Chris Henchy, whom she married in 2001. The couple gets two daughters – Rowan, born in 2003, born in 2006 – the family lives in New York City.

The controversial teen star has become a respectable actress who plays in TV series and on Broadway – as Morticia Addams in the musical “The Addams Family”. She caused a sensation as a clever author of three books, among other things she lovingly dealt with her mother in “There was a little girl” with her mother, who died in 2010. And in “Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression” she addresses her postnatal depression after the birth of her first daughter Rowan: “I just wanted to disappear and die.” In her darkest moments, she thought that she would never be better and her daughter would be “better off” without her. She has overcome the disease until the birth of the second daughter.

But the echo on the beginnings of her career sounds for Brooke Shields, in which it was demonstrated during a TV documentary that she is still a descendant of the French sun king Louis XIV (1638-1715). The film “Pretty Baby” was shown on a television program in front of its daughters. “Would you have allowed us that at the age of eleven?” Asked Rowan her mother. It spontaneously replied: “No!” And said about her own mother – and her own career start: “I don’t know why she found it okay.”