As a girl, I pored over The Brooke Book, a collection of photographs that made me envy Shields’s perfectly pert nose and dimples. That didn’t stop the rest of us from projecting our fantasies onto her-and when I say us, I include myself. Things that could’ve happened without beauty.” She preferred to focus, she says now, on “things I could control. She didn’t like to look in the mirror and was uncomfortable getting so much attention for her face, which was a mere fluke of genetics. In Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, a two-part documentary premiering on Hulu April 3, the now 57-year-old Shields explains that she sometimes disassociated from her body as a young starlet. By the time she was nine, one British tabloid was already calling her “the child who drives men crazy.” She’s been modeling since the age of 11 months, her pale face (and fulsome eyebrows) attached to countless household products thanks to ads and commercials. Her wavy hair is pulled back in a barrette, and you can see her glimmering smile falter for a moment. But Shields is already a pro at absorbing strangers’ feelings about her. “You really are an exquisite-looking young lady…isn’t she a pretty girl?” talk show host Mike Douglas oozes admiringly over a preadolescent Brooke Shields.
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