‘She Pivots’ With Brooke Shields: On Finding Her Independence
challenges the typical definitions of success and explores the role our personal stories play in our professional journeys.“I just didn't know anything else,” Shields tells me as we sit down to talk for the latest episode of. “I was nine when I made my first movie. And that was, you know, it's like kids grow up playing sports. So that was my sport. I was put into that arena.”
Despite growing up in the spotlight, Shields was shielded from the harsh critiques of the public by her mother, who guided her career—and her personal life—with a strong hand. But that didn’t mean her mother, who struggled with alcoholism throughout Shields’ life, was ignorant to how her daughter was sexualized at an early age.
“I think she buried her head in the sand a lot about a lot of it,” Shields says. “She was never really fully sober…she wanted me to be adored.” Going to college was one of the first times Shields began to break away from her mother’s influence. Her independence continued when she met her ex-husband Andre Agassi.
“He was the first person who said, you know, if you really want to be an actress, you're complaining that you're not getting any work, and you're sad about it, and you're empty, you feel terrible. Why are you sitting in New York City, without an agent or manager? And so I told my mother that I was separating from her as a manager. And that if I was going to do this, fail or not, I knew I needed to do it on my own,” Shields says.
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