Brooke: Why I’ve banned my girls from modelling
BROOKE Shields, who gained notoriety as a child for risque fashion shoots and film roles, has banned her daughters from the ‘cut-throat and demoralizing’ world of modelling.
The US actress said Rowan, 14, and Grier, 11, would have to wait until they finished college to appear on the catwalk, and added that modelling ‘devoured’ young women.
She also banned her daughters from acting because she did not want them missing out on school for auditions.
Miss Shields, 52, began her career at 12, appearing nude in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby, about prostitution. Two years later she starred in The Blue Lagoon, about two adolescents marooned on a desert island, although body doubles were used for nude scenes. In the same year she appeared semi-clothed in adverts for Calvin Klein.
Asked if she would let her daughters get into modelling and acting, she told US magazine Social Life: ‘It’s a cut-throat and demoralizing business. Plus, they want you when they want you, and you have to be there for auditions and work, and my kids aren’t missing school.’