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| | Brooke Shields Launches Signature Makeup Line for MAC Cosmetics | | Added 9 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Gearing up for the next phase of her career, Brooke Shields showed up at the MAC Cosemetics launch of the Brooke Shields Collection at the 5th Ave Flagship in New York City on Wednesday (October 1).
Joined by MAC global brand president Karen Buglisi and creative director James Gager, the ?Suddenly Susan? star worked the crowd like a seasoned pro and posed for plenty of photographs.
While chatting with People, Brooke commented on how her eyebrows have always seemed to get a ton of attention.
?I?m flattered, but it?s been so many years of that and when you get that label as a young kid, it?s hard to not think it?s ridiculous! My mom would always say to me, ?Don?t touch them.? And [modeling agency owner] Eileen Ford wanted me to bleach them because I was blonde [at the time]. But my mom just said, ?We?re leaving everything natural!'?
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| | Brooke Shields gained 10 lbs following knee injury, couldn't care less | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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This is a bizarre story that’s not a direct quote, but definitely sounds like something Brooke would say. Brooke Shields is very upfront about her issues, but she’s not oversharing every week like other celebrities. Brooke has shared her thoughts on aging in Hollywood, she’s admitted that she suffered from postpartum depression and sought help for it (you don’t know the history of psychiatry) and she’s talked about staying fit by exercising and eating less. When Brooke shares something about her life, you get the sense that she’s just being honest, not that she’s trying to get headlines or preach to the masses. So that’s why I believe this story that Brooke gained a little weight after a knee injury, and why I also believe that she doesn’t really care about it:
Once America?s preeminent sex symbol, Brooke Shields has put on 10 pounds in the past four months, and is ?adamant that she couldn?t care less? about it, a source told RadarOnline.com exclusively.
With ongoing issues
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| | Brooke Shields' Private Burlesque Party | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s always up for a fun-filled night, and Brooke Shields hosted a private Burlesque performance in New York City over the weekend.
The ?Lipstick Jungle? actress and Tina Turnbow turned up for an exclusive show at the swanky Nurse Bettie bar, where they were spotted having a wonderful time mingling amongst the scantily-clad performers and guests.
Aside from her burlesque soiree doings, Shields recently signed on to star in and executive produce an upcoming real-world drama turned adaptation called ?Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage.?
The movie revolves around anti-emiment domain heroine Susette Kelo, who lost her little Pink house in a 2005 U.S. Supreme court ruling in which the court ruled that eminent domain could be used to take homes for private development projects - a decision that outraged the nation.
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| | Brooke Shields: 2011 amfAR Gala Gorgeous | | Added 12 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Acting as one of A-list chairs behind the evening's much-anticipated party, Brooke Shields was spotted arriving at amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS Gala today (May 19).
The 45-year-old actress was a vision in white, sporting a spectacular one shoulder gown with silver detailing and a pair of white peep-toe heels.
Brooke's newest project has her fronting the role as Morticia in the theatrical production of "The Addams Family."
Shields, who made her breakout Broadway debut in 1994, will star opposite Roger Rees when the play opens at Lunt Fontanne Theatre on June 26.
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| | Brooke Shields Has Seen Better Days | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Brooke Shields looked a little long in the jowl at “The Tourist” premiere last night. I had to look twice just to make sure she wasn’t Hagrid’s dog in Harry Potter. But I knew it was her once I saw that hideous blouse. Fang would never be caught dead in such an unflattering neutral!
PHOTO CREDIT: Fame Pictures
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| | PETA inevitably blasts Brooke Shields for endorsing fur | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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It took a hot minute for PETA to go after Brooke Shields for her weirdly worded endorsement of the fur industry. Brooke visited a fur studio in Copenhagen this spring, during which time she made her own fur coat and then endorsed a statement written by a non-native English speaker about how awesome fur was and how it was every little girl’s dream. She supposedly said “I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep,” and that “I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur.” Yes, you and your daughters can wear fur, if you want to look like cruel bitches who don’t care about the plight of animals.
PETA was of course all over that, and went after Brooke, citing her fading career. This was just what Tom Cruise did when he disagreed with her confession to using antidepressants, and it doesn’t add to PETA’s case:
The animal-rights organization is lashing out at Shields for visiting Kopenhagen Fur’s workshop back in March and making comments such as “I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur” and “I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep.”
Not surprisingly, a post on PETA’s website reads: “When I was a little girl, I dreamed about growing up to be a rock star. Or maybe a veterinarian. Or a roller derby queen. I didn’t dream about anally electrocuting animals on fur farms, but apparently Brooke Shields did.”
But the criticism doesn’t stop there, with a few potshots at Shields’ livelihood thrown in for good measure.
“We understand that when some actors’ careers begin to fade, they’ll do just about anything to stay in the limelight, including appearing in eyelash-growing commercials and starring in short-lived TV shows,” continues the post. “But Brooke, did you really want the world to remember you as a ‘fur pimp’ who stares agog at rows of animal skins?”
[From E! Online]
I don’t know who I find more annoying, PETA or Brooke Shields. I actually liked Brooke before this whole debacle, so I would say that she’ll still slightly ahead and that it will ultimately depend on how she handles the fallout. Is she going to issue a statement clarifying her endorsement, or stay silent for fear of jeopardizing whatever she got paid for this? This incident speaks to both Brooke’s poor judgment and the sad fact that she’ll do just about any commercial. Jezebel ran a brief piece last summer “Why is Brooke Shields in every commercial?” in which they noted that she is a spokesperson for “Tupperware, Coppertone, Latisse, World Gold Council, Colgate, milk, Fertility Lifelines, and more.” I found a couple that Jezebel missed - Volkswagon and Godiva chocolate. What’s next for Brooke? Can she sink any lower than endorsing fur? Is her career as a celebrity spokesperson going to be jeopardized by an association with a fur company? We can only hope she becomes a little less ubiquitous.
Brooke Shields is shown on 5/24/10, 5/23/10, 5/3/10, and 4/25/10. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Brooke Shields makes a custom fur coat, enthuses about wearing it all the time | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields, who starred in that recent POS kids’ film, Furry Vengeance, loves fur so much that she made a custom fur coat at a Copenhagen studio. She also gave some confusing quotes praising fur. It’s all for cash, though, and we know that Brooke will endorse basically anything. I realize that no animals are going to go medieval on her ass and stage a forest revolt ripped off from Home Alone but I can dream. Now I’m getting flashbacks of that movie I was actively trying to forget, and I’ll never forgive Shields for that.
Brooke Shields visited Denmark in March to act out her ?little girl?s dream?: to design her own fur coat. The Hollywood star is thrilled with Kopenhagen Fur.
?Wearing fur may be associated with something grandmotherish. Something you wear when you visit the opera, or if you are a rock star and wears it inside out. But I will advocate that both my generation and the younger generation can wear fur?, says Brooke Shields.
The comment fell as the American actress visited Kopenhagen Fur?s creative workshop, Kopenhagen Studio early in March. Here she began designing her own mink coat made of the best Danish fur skins. Brooke Shields chose to work with the short-haired, black mink.
?Brooke Shields will be proud to be an exponent of the beautiful Danish fur skins in the U.S. She thinks that Kopenhagen Fur is very unique?, says Kopenhagen Studio?s Partnership & Alliance manager Natia Linneman and adds that the star has been intrigued by the way Kopenhagen Fur is organized and how the company centrally supports disease control and quality on fur farms etc…
The visit of Brooke Shields, who at the age of 15 became famous for her leading part in the movie The Blue Lagoon, was arranged in February during New York Fashion Week, where Kopenhagen Fur, in cooperation with the design house J. Mendel, had a major event in the city. J. Mendel also helps Brooke Shields to design her coat.
?I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school, when I drink coffee and when I sleep?, says Brooke Shields, who calls it a little girl?s dream to be able to design her own fur garment.
[From International Fur Trade Federation website via D-Listed]
I really hope they paid her for this and didn’t just comp her visit to Denmark and give her some fur swag. Her people should have signed of on those quotes because they’re worded like only a non-native English speaker would phrase them. “I will wear the fur garment when I follow my children to school” makes it sound like Brooke is this crazy homeless woman stalking some grade schoolers in a tattered fur coat, babbling about how it’s her precious. (Yes, Michael K at D-Listed said essentially the same thing, but I like to think that I would have come up with that on my own although that’s probably not the case.) Now that’s what I think of when I hear about fur, crazy homeless old ladies and stinky moth balls. Even rich semi-old ladies wearing “new” fur makes me think of down on their luck homeless people, like fur is this monkey paw type curse that brings you warmth and the illusion of wealth and leaves you with nothing in the end.
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| | Brooke Shields says being a mom helps you eat less | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I like Brooke Shields because she’s refreshingly normal and it doesn’t seem like an act. Sure she endorses too many things and it seems like I see her in commercials constantly, but there’s something very genuine about her. She’s honest and doesn’t come across like she’s trying to convince us that she’s just a normal working mom or that she hasn’t had any work done.
Brooke has a new interview in Parade in which she’s promoting a new family comedy she’s co-starring in with Brendan Fraser called Furry Vengeance, out this Friday. The movie looks dumb but funny. As the mom of a five year I have to say that I appreciate most family-friendly movies that come out and have enjoyed films that I would have mocked when I was single. (Tooth Fairy, for instance, wasn’t bad as far as kids movies go. Yes my standards are low, but The Rock is so easy on the eyes.) Furry Vengeance has both cute animals with human characteristics and a lot of sight gags, although I think it’s too mature for my son at this point.
Getting back to Brooke’s interview, she talks about growing older, staying fit, and accepting herself as she is. These are worn topics that actresses get asked constantly, and she gives kind of cliche answers in that she downplays the importance of diet and exercise and says she’s content with herself as she is. I believe her, though, and I like that she admits she exercises and doesn’t chalk it all up to “running around” with her kids. The part about eating less because she picks at her kids’ food doesn’t ring true to me, though. I know I eat more because I eat my own portion in addition to what my son leaves and I have to train myself to just throw it out. A recent study showed that parents living with children ate the equivalent of an entire pizza more fat a week than childless adults, so I would assume that more people can relate to eating more, not less, with kids around.
Preserving that sexy bod.
“Having two kids helps. You eat less for some reason because you end up picking at what they had to eat and don’t eat real food. I’ve always danced and I spin and I love doing yoga. I don’t exercise every day, but in New York, it’s easier because we walk everywhere. So we’re walking all the time. I make my kids do that too.”
But she’s not a fitness fanatic.
“It’s sort of a cliche, but it’s definitely been post-children and just surviving my 30’s. It sounds so granola, but I sort of celebrate what I do have rather than what I don’t have. You spend so many of your early years, or I did, focusing on the things that I wasn’t. I was never petite. I was always getting unfavorably compared to other people. Finally, I started saying, ‘You know what, I am going to wear heels. I don’t care if I’m 6?4? when I wear heels. Why should I compromise?’ There’s something freeing about not wanting to look 22 anymore. So as I’ve gotten older, I’ve given myself a little bit more of a break.”
Hooked on organization.
“I grew up without a routine at home, things were hit and miss. But my mother had me in a regular children’s school my whole life and that routine calmed me. My school became like my home. I never missed school for work, ever. Sometimes I used to take my organizing a little too far with my Filofax, but that was the way that I coped. I didn’t do drugs. I’m just organized.”
Passing it on.
“My kids thrive on the routine at bedtime, like the bath and the food and the book reading. Every night we say our prayers and we do a rose/thorn which is, ‘What was your rose of the day and what was your thorn of the day?’ I watch them and it just gives them a sense of comfort. It’s the same thing with rules. I have to enforce their behavior, including manners. But they like it. I think they just feel like they’re safe, and then they know that they can kind of go off and be kids at school.”
[From Parade]
In terms of Brooke talking about growing older - two years ago she said that she still looked in the mirror and expected to see the same person she was was in her 20s. I can definitely relate to that, but the part about not eating as much when you’re a mom - not so much.
Here’s the trailer for Furry Vengeance. I bet it will do quite well at the box office, as these kid movies usually do. I haven’t heard much about it though:
Brooke Shields and her husband, Chris Henchy, are shown on 4/25/10 on the opening night of the musical “Promises” in NY. Doesn’t he look pissed off? Credit: Joseph Marzullo/Wenn.com. Brooke is also shown on 4/22/10. Credit: WENN.com
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| | Brooke Shields on post-partum depression: I was suicidal | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields has been talking about her struggles with post-partum depression for years. Since 2005, to be exact. That?s when she published her memoir on the subject, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. The book could have just been an eye-opening, acclaimed first-person story that shined a light on a tricky subject that was (and perhaps still is) seen as shameful and stigmatized in our society. Unfortunately, the book and Brooke herself became center-stage as Tom Cruise and the Church of Scientology twisted the message of the book (?get help, go to a therapist, maybe go on anti-depressants, anything to get through a difficult time? basically) into their own anti-psychiatry, anti-medication message. Tom and Brooke fought about it publicly (?You?re so glib,? Tom told Matt Lauer when Lauer brought up Brooke?s book and message). Brooke and Tom eventually buried the hatchet, and Tom probably got Brooke some additional book sales in the end.
Anyway, Brooke is talking about PPD again, and this time she?s discussing how she came dangerously close to driving into a wall, she was so suicidal. It?s a powerful story:
Brooke Shields has been open about her struggles with post-partum depression, but in revealing new comments she expresses the true depths of her suffering.
Shields, 44, spoke movingly about the stigma of depression and her experience battling the disease on Monday while receiving an advocacy award from the Hope for Depression Research Foundation in Manhattan.
“We think and we feel that we should just be able to handle it on our own,” said the actress, who is mom to two girls, Rowan, 6, and Grier, 3. “I’ve always been strong enough to get through every single difficult situation in my life. I grew up in an addictive household. My mother [Teri] had acute alcoholism. It’s in my blood. I was never going to be the one to succumb to it.”
After a miscarriage and seven IVF attempts, she gave birth to daughter Rowan in 2003 with her husband, TV writer Chris Henchy. “I finally had a healthy beautiful baby girl and I couldn’t look at her,” she said of the depression she felt. “I couldn’t hold her and I couldn’t sing to her and I couldn’t smile at her … All I wanted to do was disappear and die.”
In her deepest moments of despair she said, that the disease led her to believe, “I should not exist. The baby would be better off without me. Life was never going to get better ? so I better just go.”
Shields was prescribed medication, though she stopping taking it one point, thinking she didn’t need them. “That was the week I almost did not resist driving my car straight into a wall on the side of the freeway,” she told the crowd. “My baby was in the back seat and that even pissed me off because I thought she’s even ruining this for me. I just wanted to drive into the wall and my friend stayed on the phone with me and made me safely get home.”
She later called her doctor to ask for more help, and was eventually diagnosed with a chemical imbalance. “I learned what was going on inside my body and what was going on inside my brain,” she said. “I learned I wasn’t doing anything wrong to feel that way. That it was actually out of my control.”
Looking back, she said, “If I had been diagnosed with any other disease, I would have run to get help. I would have worn it like a badge … I didn’t at first ? but finally I did fight. I survived.”
[From People]
This is one of the reasons I like Brooke - and I think her book and her interviews on the subject were eye-opening, and she made a lot of conversations happen. Do you think Xenu will allow Tom Cruise to let this one go by? I hope so. Tom seems to have learned his lesson, sort of, about telling (ordering) women to reject a psychiatric diagnosis of post-partum depression. I think the message finally got through to Tom - even if he truly believes that women shouldn’t get medical help for PPD, he definitely shouldn?t say it out loud.
Brook Shields attended the Hope for Depression Research Foundation annual seminar and luncheon in New York City, New York on November 16, 2009. Credit: Fame.
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| | Brooke Shields is a total bitch to LA store's staffers customers | | Added 14 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Does Brooke Shields have a reputation as a bitch? I posed that question to Google, and I came up empty. So if Google?s got nothing, I guess Brooke might actually be one of the nicer celebrities. But this report from Fox News 411 makes it sound like Brooke was having one of those ?I?ll cut the next bitch who gives me dares to speak to me? days. Fox claims that Brooke was shopping with ?two guy friends? at an Hermes sample sale (I wish I was there). Brooke and her friends were basically being big bitches to everyone in the store, mocking customers and being nasty to the staff, if this report is to be believed.
Sometimes Brooke Shields isn’t so nice to retail staff.
The one-time wife to admitted crystal meth-taker Andre Agassi was shopping in New York City with two male companions when sources say she exhibitied a surprisingly rude attitude and major diva behavior, given her sweet-as-pie reputation.
Shields, 44, was apparently getting some time off from her two little girls, Grier, 3, and Rowan, 6, when shoppers spotted her at an Hermes sample sale.
“Brooke was in a snit when she walked in the store. She had two guy friends with her and they were joking around and mocking people,” an eyewitness tells Fox411.
Then the model/TV star started getting snippy with a sales associate while searching for a bargain on Birkin bags and glassware, says the source. “A sales associate offered to show her some watches she was looking at when she bit his head off!”
Apparently, Shields took the offer of aid as an affront of sorts.
“When she was asked, like every other customer, if she needed any help, Brooke was truly rude. She could have said ‘no thanks,’ but instead said, ‘If I needed any help, I would ask for it!’” says the source. “People were definitely staring at her by that point!”
The former supermodel then sashayed down the aisles making jokes, says the onlooker. As Brooke continued to shop, she turned to her friends, holding up a champagne flute, and said, “If we bought these, we would have to have a gorgeous man serve us champagne as we sat around drinking all day.”
Um, what?
“Brooke could have used a glass of champagne to loosen her up,” joked the fellow bargain shopper. “She was tense and quite rude. She seemed to be there to make fun with her friends more than she was actually shopping. The second she walked out of the store, all the women turned to ask if that really was Brooke Shields acting obnoxious in public.”
That seems to be the case.
[From Fox News 411]
I have a feeling this is going to be one of those Salma-Hayek-throwing-a-hissy-fit situations where I side with a celebrity because I?m just as guilty of being as big a bitch as some of these stars. While I?ve never ?pulled a Salma? and cussed out a hostess, I have been rude to wait staff a couple of times when I thought their service was extremely sub-par. As for the Brooke situation, that?s more my deal, although to me it just sounds like Brooke was hanging out with some of her best gay friends (clue: Hermes) and they were maybe a bit drunk and they didn?t want to be bothered. Just my take.
Brooke Shields is shown on 10/27/09 at an Alzheimer’s Association benefit. Credit: WENN.com
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