While Shields and Wilson stop short of blaming Teri, there are implicated judgements over the decisions she made for her daughter. Teri Shields died in 2012 from complications relating to dementia. The tightrope of having a mum as a managerĭespite her driving insistence to turn Shields into a star, her mother is treated with a reluctant reverence by the subjects of the documentary. The documentary focuses on these sexualised roles, which were encouraged and supported by Shield's own mother, as well as the media's reaction to them.ĭirector Wilson pastes magazine covers that crown Shields as the ' World's Youngest Sex Symbol' and ' America's New Sexy Kid Star' in-between her mother deflecting questions regarding Brooke's treatment with statements like, "ever since Brooke was a baby, she's been encouraged to be sensual". Then once in Endless Love, a similar film in which director Franco Zeffirelli physically twisted a 16-year-old Shields's toe in order for her to properly imitate sexual ecstasy. Shields breakout turn was in Pretty Baby at age 11, a role where she was filmed nude twice and at one point, paraded around a stuffy room of men who bid hundreds of dollars for the rights to her virginity.īrooke Shields in Blue Lagoon, released in 1980, aged 14.
The first half of the documentary is largely dedicated to the horrors Shields endured in Hollywood before she could even drive. It's this supernatural beauty that led her mother Teri Shields to push her into modelling at just 11 months' old. The first thing that's established in the documentary is that Brooke Shields has been stunningly beautiful since she was born. WARNING: This story includes accounts of sexual assault, which some readers may find distressing. Now she's sharing the truth behind the tabloids in Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, a two-part documentary directed by Lana Wilson, who also helmed Taylor Swift's 2020 documentary Miss Americana. The film turned Shields into a teenage sex symbol, a representation that led to a number of trials and tribulations over the star's life. Before she had even hit puberty, Brooke Shields was one of the biggest names in 1980s Hollywood.Īt first a child model, her breakout film role was at age 12 when she starred in Pretty Baby as Violet, a child prostitute in 1917 New Orleans.
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