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| | Brooke Shields says being a mom helps you eat less | | Added 15 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 15 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 15 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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| | Brooke Shields Keeps Busy Amidst Nude Photo Debacle | | Added 15 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She’s always up to something, and yesterday afternoon (September 30) Brooke Shields was spotted out and about in Brentwood.
The veteran actress made her exit from a local fitness center, sporting a sleek black dress while chatting away incessantly on her iPhone as the paparazzi fired away.
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Keeping busy with her upcoming movie, Brooke Shields was spotted grabbing some coffee before heading to work earlier today (August 12) in Boston, Massachusetts.
The “Lipstick Jungle” actress looked cute in a knee-length skirt, white top, jean jacket and some gold flats while walking to the set of “Furry Vengeance.”
In other news, it’s no secret the 44-year-old is in killer shape and when asked by People magazine how she does it, Brooke jokingly replies, “I’m a closet superhero.”
Shields then revealed her real secret which is a combination of yoga and spinning, plus she stays away from the dumbbells so she doesn’t bulk up. She explains, “It’s not safe for me to work with weights at the moment because I just get a bit ... I respond quickly.”
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| | Statement by reporter who checked Brooke Shields' mom out of nursing home | | Added 15 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The National Enquirer has a new article explaining the circumstances behing the much talked-about incident in which a freelance reporter checked Brooke Shields’ mom out of a nursing home.
Brooke was outraged that her mom Teri, who suffers from dementia, was allowed to leave her assisted living facility with the reporter, and issued a statement about it to People Magazine. When she learned that her mother was out with a reporter that day she called the cops, who found Teri having lunch with the man at a nearby restaurant. The National Enquirer explained at the time that Teri had been friends with the reporter for over 10 years and that the visit was a planned one that was approved by the facility. They said that Teri and the guy ran some errands and had something to eat and that she was never in any danger.
The Enquirer now has a personal statement from the freelance reporter, Bob Hartlein, who was with Teri that day. He explains that he is good friends with Teri Shields and used to hang out and watch TV with her at her house in New Jersey. He had no idea that Teri had dementia and says he first heard about it from Brooke and her lawyer. He admits that he did run stories on Brooke Shields using things Teri told him, but says that he was genuinely fond of her and knows her well. They even include a picture with the story that was taken in May, 2008 and shows Hartlein kissing Teri Shields affectionately on the head as she smiles. She is dressed up well in the photo and looks coherent and aware.
When Brooke Shields and her lawyer first revealed the details of her mother’s “dementia,” I was shocked and upset at that tragic news. In the 10 years I’ve known Teri Shields, I’ve found her to be more in control of her faculties - and certainly more outspoken - than most young people I know.
When I first interviewed Teri in 1999, I didn’t expect to become her friend. She was 65 at the time, and she’d agreed to talk to me about her ongoing battle with alcoholism.
“I knew I needed help last year (1998) after I passed out in a New York City department store,” Teri confessed to me. “I was so sick, I couldn’t remember.”
Her brutal honesty and heartfelt attitude endeared me to this lovely woman. She was not the tough divorcee often described in press reports.
After our first meetings, I spent many afternoons with Teri in her comfortable Haworth, NJ, home, which is near my own. We watched TV (”Dr. Phil” was a favorite) and chatted endlessly about her love of movies.
It was an unconventional relationship over the years between the mother of a world-famous movie star and a freelance tabloid reporter, but I always treated Teri with the same warmth, kindness and respect that I do my own mother, who is 82.
Most of our wonderful afternoons together never resulted in a story, but one thing remained consistent. Teri was always clear to me about how much she loved Brooke…
Maybe not everyone was pleased with my relationship with Teri over the years, but I wish only the best health for my friend. She is truly a special woman.
[From The National Enquirer, print edition, June 22, 2009, by Bob Hartlein]
Brooke and the National Enquirer settled their disagreement over the incident. The Enquirer issued an apology and made an undisclosed, said to be “generous” donation to The American Academy of Neurology Foundation. Their statement reads, in part, “It was never the intention of the reporter, the photographer or anyone at the National Enquirer to cause harm to anyone,” and they also state that the “police investigation revealed no wrongdoing by the National Enquirer” but add that they “apologize for alarming Brooke Shields.”
This story is not as cut and dried as it originally seemed. Brooke and Teri have had a contentious relationship over the years, with Teri admitting that she’s an alcoholic while trash talking Brooke and her current husband to the Enquirer. You can see how she would befriend a reporter and confide in him if she has another agenda. She also probably genuinely appreciated the company. Brooke is doing her best for her mom under their difficult circumstances and it’s understandable that she would get outraged that Teri was allowed to leave her nursing home with a reporter. She may not believe her mom is capable of making her own decisions now, while her mom doesn’t seem willing to give up her independence. Hopefully they will be able to bury old grudges for the sake of their family and put this whole thing behind them.
Here is Brooke out with her mother, Teri, and daughter Grier, three, in NY on 5/10/09.Credit: Daniel/INFphoto.com
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| | Brooke Shields biggest health regret is her virginity | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Seriously OMG WTF |
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(photo from WireImage)
Brooke Shields opened up to Health Magazine about her biggest health regret is waiting to lose her virginity.
Q: What’s your biggest health regret?A: Not learning to love the way I looked earlier. And I think I would have had sex a lot earlier! [Laughs.] I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22. I had the public and all this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it over with in the beginning when it was sort of OK. I think I would have been much more in touch with myself. I think I wouldn’t have had issues with weight—I carried this protective 20 pounds [in college]. It was all connected. And to me, that’s a health regret.
If Brooke Shields, looking the way she did, had problems with way she looked, teen girls should look up to her and say none of us like how we look but we should get over it!I am not saying teen girls should lose their virginity at a younger age (they should do that when they are ready) but they should feel more comfortable in their skin.
She also talked about the day Tom Cruise and her made up after he went off on her for taking medicine to get through her postpardum depression.
Q: What happened the day Tom Cruise came over to apologize?A: [Tom] called an hour ahead and said, “Can I?” And I was like, “Uhhh … am I being Punk’d?” I called my husband, I called my publicist, I was like, “What do I do?” I did think, Do we use the front door? because we always use the kitchen door. It’s one of those weird things where I was like, “We need to use the front door!” I had to lock the other door and pull the shade down. I was so relieved when my husband came home and started cooking. And when Katie brought the baby over, it just got defused and we looked at these two babies born on the same day in the same hospital. The irony is insane. But just to look at these babies, [I thought] Really? Life’s short. Let’s just eat an omelet, and we’ll all live our lives and be thankful we have these little people.
Brooke's interview with Health magazine is even more interesting than just these two answers so check it out on stands now.
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| | Brooke Shields was 22 years old when she lost her virginity | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields was giving an interview to Health Magazine, talking about how long it took her to grow comfortable with her body. She says she lost her virginity when she was 22 years old, which I don?t really think is a very big deal. Of course, Brooke was something of a sex symbol at an early age, and the assumption people probably made was that she was sexually active before her twenties, but I think it makes sense. Brooke worked a lot when she was young, and it doesn?t surprise me at all that she would have put her career and academics ahead of sex. It also shows that just because a young woman?s image is hyper-sexualized, doesn?t mean she knows the first thing about sex (cough cough Britney Spears cough Miley Cyrus cough). The Huffington Post has the excerpt from Health Magazine:
Buried in a Health magazine, Brooke Shields let slip how old she was when she lost her virginity - 22 - and her regrets over it.
Q: What’s your biggest health regret?
A: Not learning to love the way I looked earlier. And I think I would have had sex a lot earlier! [Laughs.] I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22. I had the public and all this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it over with in the beginning when it was sort of OK. I think I would have been much more in touch with myself. I think I wouldn’t have had issues with weight–I carried this protective 20 pounds [in college]. It was all connected. And to me, that’s a health regret.
Shields is twice married with two young daughters.
[From The Huffington Post]
CB pointed out that Brooke went to Princeton, enrolling at the age of eighteen (1983) and graduating at the age of 21 (1987). So she went through four years at Princeton with no sex. This caused some conversation between CB and I about the guys we nailed in college, and now I feel some sympathy for Brooke. Were all of the guys at Princeton total nerds? Could none of them man up and ask Brooke out? Or did they ask Brooke out and she just said no, because she was uninterested and/or uncomfortable with her body? And regarding Brooke?s ?20 pounds?, I?ve seen pictures of her from that era in her life, and if she was carrying around an extra 20 pounds, she must have been much too slim before she enrolled.
Brooke Shields is shown at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on 4/25/09, credit: Tina Gill/PRPhotos
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| | Brooke Shields' friends say she's devoted to her mom | | Added 16 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Brooke Shields has long had a semi-strained relationship with her infamous stage mom Teri, but the two are still very much in each other?s lives, according to Brooke?s friends. Brooke recently had to move Teri, 75, into an assisted living community because she is suffering from dementia. Teri?s received a lot of criticism over the years for the way she?s handled Brooke?s career, and Brooke fired her as her manager in 1995. Teri?s also had a relationship with the National Enquirer for at least 10 years. As Celebitchy pointed out in that article, there are lots of issues between the two (Teri is an alcoholic; Brooke can come across as overprotective), and it?s hard to tell who?s right and who?s wrong. But regardless of all that, Brooke?s friends say she?s still a devoted daughter and very good to her mother.
As a child star, Brooke Shields was always watched over by Teri Shields, a stage mom known for her tenacity. And now that her mother has been diagnosed with dementia and is living in an assisted living facility, it’s Brooke who watches over Teri, say friends of the star. “Her devotion is very apparent,? says longtime pal Anna Strasberg. “Brooke takes care of Teri. There’s a bond there. It’s not a public thing for show. It’s very deeply personal.”
? Shields has described Teri ? who was widely criticized for allowing her then-12-year-old daughter to play a child prostitute and appear nude in the 1978 film Pretty Baby ? as an alcoholic. In 1995, Brooke fired her mother as her manager. (Teri divorced Brooke’s father, Frank Shields, when Brooke was an infant.)
But the bond between mother and daughter, at times strained, was never broken. “It was us against everybody,” Brooke recently told More magazine. Shields’s friend Anna Strasberg, who has hosted Brooke and her mother for Thanksgiving and other holidays, notes how Brooke dotes on Teri. “When Brooke has her mother at gatherings, she knows that her friends know the situation and Teri’s not pushed aside ? she is part of her life and that is so beautiful to watch,” she says. “It is painful and it’s beautiful.”
“They watch the floats and the [Thanksgiving] parade go by,? adds Strasberg. “Brooke is very tender and keeps watch over her to make sure she is okay, and that someone is talking to her. Teri may not be able to always have lucid moments, and she may not always be able to voice her feelings, but some moments are beautiful.”
Another of Brooke’s friends, Broadway director Kathleen Marshall, says of Teri’s deteriorating health, “[Brooke]’s very direct and honest but doesn’t dwell on it.”
[From People]
Familial relationships can be incredibly difficult and challenging. There are some that are lucky to have supportive, relatively trouble-free family lives. But most of us have some degree of complexity with our families. It?s impossible for someone outside that relationship to understand all that goes into it, good and bad. Brooke doesn?t strike me as the sort to have simply abandoned her mother or treated her badly, as some articles have suggested. She seems to have made a decision to take the best care of her mother as she possibly can, without letting Teri?s issues affect her life any longer. And that?s completely fair.
Her mother lives in New Jersey, and Brooke and her family live in L.A. for the most part, though they spend a good deal of time in New York City. Teri needs to remain in one place, and it sounds like an assisted living facility is the best situation for her. It doesn?t seem like they?re the closest mother and daughter there ever was, but that happens. It doesn?t mean Brooke?s a bad daughter.
Here?s Brooke spending the day with her family in Soho on December 14th. Images thanks to Pacific Coast News.
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| | S.S. Brooke Shields' Sexy Kurv Photoshoot | | Added 16 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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If there’s any way to make a 42-year old woman with a history of depression and a floundering career feel relevant again, it’s taking pictures of her in latex thigh-highs next to a man pulling down his underpants. That’s how mom always explained her wedding photos to me, anyway. Ooh, that reminds me, it’s about time for me to start cutting again. And this Jack and Coke isn’t going to just drink itself, you know!
Brook Shields in the Australian Kurv magazine:
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