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| | Brooke Shields: It was creepy to be 'the most famous virgin in the world' | | Added 737 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I didn?t know Broke shields had a podcast. I should probably assume everyone has a podcast and just be surprised to find out when they don?t at this point. I love Brooke, though, and her openness about her issues with her stage-manager mom Teri, her postpartum depression, her objectification at a young age and the issues growing up in the spotlight has helped countless people, myself included. On Tuesday?s episode of Now What? With Brooke Shields, she talked about telling the world she was a virgin back in 1985. My gawd, I remember that. It was the 80s so you told your parents you were a virgin, but you told you friends you?d ?totally done it.? The truth was somewhere in there. But the media definitely pushed the idea that we were all getting plowed in the upstairs guest room at a high school kegger. When Brooke announced she was a virgin after Pretty Baby and her Calvin Klein ads, it was, in fact, shocking. And a pain in the neck for Brooke, apparently. She said that her intention for the admission was to support girls who felt pressured by their boyfriends. The fallout was having to wear the title of the Most Famous Virgin in the World everywhere she went.
Brooke Shields doesnt regret any of her past ? but she might rethink publicly disclosing that she was a virgin.
On Tuesdays episode of her iHeart podcast, Now What? With Brooke Shields, the veteran actress and model answered friend Ali Wentworths question about whether Shields had many any poor choices as a young person.
I mean, I think it was, in hindsight, a bit of a mistake for me to be so open about my virginity because it never left me alone, Shields said.
She said the topic had come up in a 1985 book that, although it was credited to her, was actually written by someone else. On Your Own is a book of guidance for college-age women, released as Shields herself attended Princeton University. The Pretty Baby star said she had written an in-depth first chapter, but the publisher didnt want it.
They wanted a simple, stupid book, Shields said. Like, I like leg warmers.'
Shields addressed her sex life, because she wanted to help others.
In it, there was one part of a chapter, where I discuss ? not abstinence per se ? but owning your choice, she said. I would get a lot of fan mail from kids saying, Oh, my boyfriends pressuring me, and I dont want to have sex. What do I do? My narrative was, You dont have to do anything you dont want to.'
She recalled that it being very creepy that she then had to go on talk shows and speak to older men about the topic.
I became the most famous virgin in the world, she said. To be in the line of fire at such a young age in that way, I gained a resilience and it set me up to be ready for anything in this industry which can be difficult.
[From Yahoo!]
I remember those interviews. Brooke couldn?t talk about anything without having to answer a question about whether she was still a virgin. Each host hoped she?d say, ?Nope! Lost it last night,? and bag the exclusive. And everyone just allowed it because she?d brought it up. It makes it so much worse finding out Brooke?s hope was to stand in solidarity with women who didn?t want to be pressured into sex. Every time I want to wax poetic about the 80s I?m reminded of their underbelly. Honestly, I don?t know how any of us, but especially people like Brooke, made it out still standing.
What?s worse is I forgot that when Brooke actually did lose her virginity, it was to Dean Cain. At the time, I was hella jealous because my gawd he was so handsome. But being he?s become such a narrow-minded d*ckhead, I want a do-over for Brooke.
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| | Elisha Cuthbert: I?ll see a comment 'why are you so old now?' Because I am | | Added 737 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Elisha Cuthbert seems to work pretty steadily on TV and in movies here and there. She had a couple of movies this year and has another in pre-production. She also appears on podcasts and talks about how her reputation as a sex symbol affected her life and career. Elisha was on Rachel Bilsons podcast over the summer and talked about the pressure from studios to pose for mens magazines after The Girl Next Door came out. And Elisa just appeared on her old friend Paris Hiltons podcast to talk again about the pressure of living up to that role and how people make comments about her aging.
Elisha Cuthberts role as an ex-porn star in 2004s The Girl Next Door solidified her reputation as a sex symbol. Now, nearly two decades later, the actress says society still pressures her to live up to that title.
There was this pressure of, like, maybe the fashion world or whatever saw me as a certain thing when really it was a character, she told Paris Hilton on Mondays episode of her podcast, This is Paris, of the attention that came after the movie was released.
Even today, she says its rare for people to not bring up the fact that she was once named the most beautiful woman in television by mens publications like Maxim and FHM in the mid-2000s.
It ends up getting in the bio somehow, and you?re just like, what does that even mean? It?s not really a reflection of me as an artist, the 24 alum explained. But on the flip side of it if that?s what they see and they liked that, too, I?m OK with it. For a long time, I?ve had a lot of disdain for it and wanted to push against it, but I kept getting thrown back into that sort of stereotype. Now I?ve learned to sort of embrace it.
Though her role in The Girl Next Door struck a chord with a lot of people, its not something she dwells on in her everyday life.
I certainly don?t try to keep up with it, Cuthbert, 39, said. I would go crazy if I felt like I had to, every time I showed up [to an event], I looked like her. For me it?s not even me, it?s that character. So it seems so strange to live up to a character I played when I was 21.
Given the impact her role had at the time, Cuthbert says fans refuse to let her age.
Comments are just so weird. It?s like, Oh you look older! Sure I do. That?s the way the world works, she said. I?ll be on social media and I?ll see a comment like, Oh, why are you so old now? Because I am! Because I?m just older than I was. Im like, I don?t know what you?re comparing it too. Do you know what I mean? There?s this weird feeling, like, people don?t want to see actors or musicians age in any way. So it?s a sorta strange thing.
[From Yahoo! Entertainment]
The comments really are weird. Obviously Elisha looks older, that movie was filmed nearly 20 years ago. I dont know if its people not wanting her to age so much as people not used to seeing the natural aging on celebrities. Elisha does not look old by any means, but she does not look as tweaked and toxed as other celebs who try really hard to stave off the aging process. I also wonder if part of it is streaming and the fact that people have may watched Girl Next Door for the first time and then go to check out her social media and are shocked its 20 years later. Anyway, I guess its good that Elisha isnt trying to hang on to that character and live up to expectations of her looks based on that. I do think she may actually be the one that keeps bringing up all her mens magazine accolades. Shes definitely embracing it and possibly putting in the bio herself. Its been a talking point of hers in two recent podcasts and it kind of seems to me that she has a lower profile than she thinks she does.
Elisha and Paris in 2006
photos credit: Michael Williams and Xavier Collin/Avalon and Insight News and Features, Inc.
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