10 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT
BROOKE SHIELDS
BEAUTY Brooke Shields, 58, is saying I do to a second-chance romance with Benjamin Bratt in Netflix’s Mother of the Bride. Leading lady Brooke, who is also a co-producer of the movie, has praised the streaming service’s bigwig Christina Rogers for being a champion of rom-coms for women over 40.
The former Calvin Klein model says of the exec, “She’s not overlooking my demographic!” Here are ten things you don’t know about the native New Yorker.
1She
is a distant cousin of King Louis XIV, who ruled France for more than five decades until his death in 1715.
2Eileen
Ford started her modeling agency’s children’s division just to represent Brooke. 3As a kid, she was friends with future Ozark star Laura Linney.
4The
first movie
Brooke shot was Woody Allen’s Annie Hall — but the 11-year-old’s scenes wound up on the cuttingroom floor.
5She was a cheerleader in high school and college. 6Brooke played the onscreen daughter of Susan Sarandon in two 1978 releases — Pretty Baby and King of the Gypsies.
7Between
1980 and 1985, she appeared on more than 300 magazine covers.
8She’s
fluent in French. 9Collecting
art is one of her hobbies — but the most the millionaire has ever spent on a painting is $6,000. 10Late
pal Michael Jackson proposed to her — but she turned down the singer. Brooke recalls, “I would say, ‘You have me for the rest of your life, you don’t need to marry me.’ ”