Brooke Shields is an American model and actress. She became the youngest model to appear on the cover of the popular Vogue magazine. She gained popularity as an actress after starring in the cult film of the hippie generation, The Blue Lagoon. Despite her popularity, the actress repeatedly appeared on the list of contenders and winners of the Golden Raspberry anti-award, but twice her talent was appreciated by film critics and nominated for a Golden Globe.
Childhood and youth
Brooke Christa Shields, better known as Brooke Shields, was born at the end of May 1965 in the historical core of the vast New York City - Manhattan. Brooke's parents separated, according to some sources, when the girl was 5 years old, according to others - several months. The daughter remained in the care of her mother, Terry (Teresa) Shields, née Schmonn.
Embed from Getty Images Brooke Shields as a child with her motherThe woman came from a poor, large family of Catholic Jews and was desperately trying to become an artist. Teresa worked part-time as a make-up artist and model. The absolute opposite of his wife was Brooke’s father, Frank Shields, whose family included ancestors of the royal families of France and Great Britain.
After the divorce, Terri Shields took on the fate of her daughter, seeing the only path for her - a future movie star and podium. It seemed that Teresa Schmonn wanted to realize all her unfulfilled ambitious dreams through Brooke.
Model business
Brooke Shields made her screen debut when the girl was less than a year old. In her early childhood, Brooke advertised children's products with her mother. Soon the baby, barely getting back on her feet, already had several commercials to her credit. During her school years, young Shields was on the set much more often than in school.
At age 13, she played an underage prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
For her role as Easy, a 12-year-old prostitute, Foster was nominated for the first Oscar in her career and saw the downside of popularity for the first time: a crazy man named John Hinckley tried to kill President Reagan in 1981 after watching Taxi Driver to win his love. young actress.
Brooke Shields
Paramount Pictures
At the age of 10 she starred for Playboy, at the age of 13 she played a young prostitute in the film “Pretty Child”, at the age of 15 she played the main role in the erotic drama “The Blue Lagoon”
Interestingly, Brooke Shields herself, by her own admission, lost her virginity only at 22 years old. At the same time, her entire career was built on speculation in children’s sexuality, and at the suggestion of her mother: when the girl was 10 years old, she approved of her participation in an explicit shoot for Playboy. Shields later tried (but unsuccessfully) to sue the magazine for the rights to these shots, while the actress and model did not stop taking part in explicit projects. For example, in 1980, 15-year-old Brooke became the face of a Calvin Klein campaign. In the videos, Shields wriggled, pulling her skinny jeans over her butt, and in one video she uttered the phrase: “You want to know what’s between me and my jeans? Nothing!"
Popular
Milla Jovovich
Columbia Pictures Corporation
At the age of 15 she starred in the drama Return to the Blue Lagoon.
The plot of the film practically repeated the script of the first part with Brooke Shields, so it did not have much commercial success, but young Milla Jovovich won her first fans with her work. The candid scenes in which the actress took part with her 22-year-old partner Brian Krause are the only thing worth watching “The Return” for.
Sue Lyon
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer(MGM)
At the age of 14 she played in the film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita directed by Stanley Kubrick
For her performance in the frank film, Lyon received a Golden Globe as the most promising beginning actress, but the little girl did not fulfill her “promises”: the actress has no major roles under her belt.
Dominic Swain
At the age of 15 she played in the film adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita directed by Adrian Lyne
Unfortunately, the provocative and high-profile role turned out to be the most noticeable in the filmography of another “Lolita” - Dominique Swain. By the way, Lyne initially invited Natalie Portman to play the main role, but she refused for religious reasons: the actress was raised in a strict Jewish family. However, she could not escape the fame of a nymphet.
Natalie Portman
At the age of 12 she played a killer's apprentice in the film "Leon"
Yes, there are no explicit scenes in the cult film by Luc Besson, and yet young Natalie Portman seriously excited the audience. Her heroine perceives her adult mentor as more than just a father: she periodically half-jokingly pesters her guardian, offering him kisses and sex.
Kirsten Dunst
At the age of 11 she played in the drama Interview with the Vampire.
On the set of the famous film Interview with the Vampire, Kirsten Dunst had her first on-screen kiss! Brad Pitt himself became the young actress’s partner, but this did not reassure the girl. Where did the kisses between a girl and an adult man come from in the film script? The fact is that Dunst played a girl who was turned into a vampire at the age of ten. Remaining in the body of a child, her heroine grew up and became attached to men as a woman.
Thylane Blondeau
At the age of 10, she starred for Vogue magazine as an adult sexy girl.
Thylane appeared on the pages of Vogue in an extremely controversial image for her age: with red lipstick, high-heeled shoes and seductive poses. The publication received several complaints, but the editors objected that with such images they were trying to point out a trend: in the modern world, they really become models too early and at the same time accept the conditions of the game on an equal basis with adults. Her mother, designer Veronica Loubri, also stood up for her daughter and found nothing unnatural in Thylane’s work.
The past is full of mysteries and secrets, and people have always sought to unravel these mysteries and look into the most hidden corners of our history. We can partly do this with the help of archival photos, a selection of which is below.
Mursi woman looks at Vogue magazine for the first time, Ethiopia
London's most exotic carriage, 1894
D.I. Mendeleev and A.I. Kuindzhi playing chess, 1907
Scandalous photo shoot of 10-year-old Brooke Shields, done with the approval of her mother for Playboy Press. Photographer Gary Gross, 1975
Queen Victoria with her children, 1852. The Queen personally erased her face from the photograph - she didn’t like how it turned out
Jennifer Aniston, late 90s
Viking sword, 9th century
Sigourney Weaver. Vanity Fair, Paris, 1995
Siberian costume for bear hunting, 1800.
They made such a “overall” from untreated dry elk skin. Sleeves made of "pipes". All this was connected by iron rings. There were three knives: one in the boot, one at the belt, one behind the head, attached to the neck. There was also Rozhon, a stick with a knife, a blade like a table knife. The tip is rounded so it can slide between bones
American strippers of the 60s
A 14-year-old boy nicknamed "Boy Samson" holds a 90-kilogram motorcycle and a motorcyclist above him, May 28, 1932.
Sketches of the moon made by Galileo. National Central Library, Florence, 1609
Elvira - Mistress of the Dark, 1988
Johnny Depp celebrates his 20th birthday, 1983
Brewster armor, one of the first body armor, USA, 1917–1918
Lesbian couple. Paris, 1932
Sigmund Freud poses as his own bust is made by sculptor Oskar Nemov. Vein. First Austrian Republic, 1931
American actress Brooke Shields, who became world famous as a child after starring in the films “Adorable Child” and “The Blue Lagoon”, where she starred completely naked as a minor, said that she was pleased that the photographer who photographed her was again naked in the bathtub at the age of 9, couldn't make any money from these scandalous photos.
Let's remember that these candid photographs, taken by photographer Harry Gross in 1975 for Playboy Press magazine with the approval of Brooke's mother, were later re-shot by artist Richard Prince and became the cause of a loud scandal in the fall of 2009, which erupted in the UK at the opening of the Pop Life exhibition at the gallery of modern art Tate Modern. Then the organizers of the exhibition, after a warning from Scotland Yard about opening a case on the promotion of child pornography, had to withdraw.
Now Brooke Shields is trying to put a good face on a bad performance. She states that she is at least pleased with the fact that, despite the fact that the artist Richard Prince earned millions with her help, the author of the photographs, Harry Gross, did not receive a single cent from this, reports the Canadian Internet portal Canoe. Explaining how she started posing nude, Brooke said that at that age it was not something out of the ordinary for her. “My own children also walk around the house naked all the time, and when I was nine, I did not feel any discomfort from my nudity,” says the actress.
"But that guy (Harry Gross) waited until I was 16 to post the pictures so he could make money and get famous... And my favorite part of this whole photo thing is that Richard Prince re-shot the photo , made his millions, and the guy who originally tried to get money from this doesn’t have a penny. And that’s fair,” said Brooke Shields.
Let us remember that the actress began her erotic photo and film career very early. After a candid photo shoot at the age of 9, equally candid film roles followed. At the age of 12, the girl played the underage prostitute Violet in Louis Malle’s film “La Charming Child,” filmed in 1978. The film also contains erotic scenes with Shields naked, which is why in some countries the film was released in a censored form. However, the film was even awarded the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival at one time.
Brooke Shields is considered one of the most scandalous people in show business. She received this title in her distant childhood. Provocative photo shoots and erotic films, in which the girl participated before reaching adulthood, always attracted the attention of the press.
In addition, the model also managed to be remembered for her numerous romances with famous men, including actor John Travolta, singer Michael Jackson, Prince Albert II of Monaco and many others. Repeatedly, in the future, Shields regretted what she did as a child, but the photos published on the pages of Playboy and the films made will forever remain in the public domain.
early years
The future superstar was born on May 31, 1965 in New York, USA. Her mother, Teri Shmon, is an actress whose films can hardly be called successful. The girl’s father, on the contrary, is a very influential man, in whose blood flows the blood of an aristocrat. This couple might not have worked out if Teri had not become pregnant. Having learned this news, the father, being a well-bred man, proposed his hand and heart to my mother. However, even having a child together could not keep them together for long. A few months after Brooke was born, the young couple separated.
The little daughter remained with her mother, who began to use her to realize her unfulfilled creative ambitions. The woman realized that it was too late for her to build her career, so she began taking her newborn daughter to castings.
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– 92-66-92 cm. The girl felt the true taste of the modeling business very early. Brooke's first filming experience occurred when she was not even a year old. Her mother went through the casting with her and starred in an advertisement for children’s products. Every year her modeling portfolio was replenished with new photo and video works. At school age, when all the girls played with dolls and did their homework, Shields earned good money and saw no one except her mother and the film crew.
The first substantiated scandal surrounding Brooke Shields occurred at the age of 10. It was then that my mother took the young TV star to shoot for the erotic gloss Playboy Press. The resulting photo, in which the girl was completely naked, caused a storm of negative emotions from critics and readers. Having matured, the model tried her best to sue the publication for the rights to the photos and negatives, but lost the case.
However, the scandalous antics of the young model did not end there. When the girl just turned 15 years old, she was offered cooperation by the famous fashion brand Calvin Klein. Such an opportunity can only come once in a lifetime, so Brooke Shields could not miss it. She starred in an ambiguous advertisement for jeans, the slogan for which was: “Do you want to know what is between me and my jeans? Nothing!" Due to the fact that the model was not yet of age, the advertising photos caused a storm of negative comments.
At the age of 14, the girl’s photo first appeared on the cover of the fashion glossy Vogue. This made her the youngest model to ever grace the magazine's cover page.
Already at the age of 16, Brooke Shields achieved enormous success in the modeling field. She made many adult supermodels jealous not only of her popularity, but also of her fees. According to Time, in 1981 the girl earned at least 10 thousand dollars. This was one of the largest figures at that time. However, any fame has a downside. Not only was Brooke deprived of childhood and communication with her peers, she was also often harassed by unbalanced fans, from whom she received threats. But despite this, the model continued to commit scandalous acts and appear on the pages of the press.
Film career
Films with Brooke Shields, as well as photographs, have repeatedly caused a flurry of negative emotions. After she posed naked for Playboy at the age of 10, job offers in the film industry were not long in coming. At first, she received only small supporting roles. In 1977, she played her first leading role in the film "Pretty Child". The plot tells the story of 12-year-old Violet, who was involved in prostitution.
Despite the fact that Brooke's father was categorically against filming such a film, her mother still approved participation in the project. The girl was repeatedly completely naked in the frame, but this did not bother her mother at all, she only wanted to assert herself at her expense.
After starring in a film of dubious nature, another scandal developed around Brooke Shields. Due to such negative attention, the girl’s psychological health suffered. She had to go to a psychiatrist she knew for a long time. Her path to fame can hardly be called easy. However, perhaps it was thanks to these shootings that she became interesting to the public and is popular to this day.
In 1980, the girl had another leading role, which had a greater impact on her popularity. We are talking about the melodrama “The Blue Lagoon”. Brooke had the opportunity to reincarnate as a teenager who, after a shipwreck, found herself on a desert island with a young man. As they grow older, a romantic love story begins to develop between them. In many scenes, Brooke's character is completely naked, which is why the girl again received a lot of controversial comments.
It is worth noting that in the scenes in which the naked heroine walks along the beach and swims with her partner on the set, a stunt double was used.
And when the actress appeared in the frame, the make-up artists covered her breasts with hair. It is noteworthy that thanks to her role, Brooke Shields became the first nominee for the Golden Raspberry Award, which is awarded to the worst actors. Despite this, she became even more popular and recognizable. The following year, the girl played a role in the melodrama “Endless Love.”
After two leading roles, the 16-year-old became very popular. She began to be invited to new films and photo shoots. Thus, her photo several times graced the covers of the famous fashion glossy Vogue. She then decides to take a short break and devote her time to studying. The girl entered Princeton University, but soon returned to work as an actress. Films such as "The Diamond Trap" and "Brenda Star" only reinforced the status of a first-class actress.
In the 90s, she continued to actively act in diverse films. Thanks to the fact that she got characters that were completely different from each other, the actress managed to prove that it was no coincidence that she achieved popularity. The films “Slum Dreams” and “Obrazina” helped the girl reveal a new side. In addition, she repeatedly appeared in famous TV series such as “Friends” and “Two and a Half Men.”
Shields devoted 6 years of her life to the latter.
The role in the film “Midnight Express” allowed the actress to reveal herself in a completely different way. The comedy films “Cops in the Deep” and “How to Marry a Billionaire” also helped her to express herself.
Personal life
Brooke turned out to be a very loving actress. Before tying the knot for the first time, she had affairs with the world's best actors and artists. Her personal life began back in 1978. The young actress's first boyfriend was her colleague Scott Baio. Their childhood romance lasted for 3 years. After that, she had affairs with John Travolta, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Michael Jackson, Nicolas Cage and Liam Neeson.
All this continued until in 1990 she met tennis player Andre Agassi. They dated for three years, until in 1993 the man proposed to Brooke. However, this relationship also came to an end. Due to disagreements about family life, already in 1999 the young couple filed for divorce.
Thanks to the divorce, her career began to gain momentum again. She was invited to the filming of The Unpredictable Suen, where she met her future husband Chris Henchy. In 2001, the young people got married. In 2003, the family’s first child, daughter Rowan Francis, was born, and 3 years later another child appeared, a girl named Greer Hammond. Since then, their family has lived happily in Florida.
