Brooke Shields was forced into Playboy photos when she was 10

Brooke Shields reflects on her childhood and youth in the spotlight of cinema and television. In the documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (airing April 3 on Hulu), the actress recaps being sexualized as a little girl.

In an interview with the “New Yorker” she gave a first look and made serious allegations against her mother Teri Shields. As her manager, she ensured that Shields was photographed naked for Playboy at the age of ten. Just one year later, the role as a child prostitute in the film “Pretty Baby” by director Louis Malle followed. In 1980, the actress became known to a worldwide audience with “The Blue Lagoon” and as a teenager she became an icon of soft-focus soft eroticism, which makes no secret of playing with pedophile stimuli.

“I had no shame when I was 11,” Shields said in the interview. “I haven’t had a developing sexuality either. Maybe I was naive. Maybe eleven-year-olds should be able to be naïve too.” To this day, she can’t explain why her mother believed that all of this was okay.

Teri Shields, who died of complications from dementia in 2012, had had small successes as a model and actress, but then as a single mother wanted to make her daughter a superstar. Both had a problematic relationship, the conflicts of which were also publicly discussed. In numerous past interviews, Brooke Shields has implied that she was psychologically abused by her mother and endured verbal belittling and harsh criticism.

In her autobiography “Down Came the Rain”, the actress, who recently also sharply attacked the makers of the “Blue Lagoon” and also reported on a rape in Hollywood, wrote that she often had the feeling that her mother could not love her, but seen only as a means to an end to gain money and fame. The relationship between the two was also complicated by Teri’s alcohol addiction and mental health issues.

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