Brooke Shields is promoting her new documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, this week.
During a sit down interview with today On Tuesday, she mentioned her mother, Terri, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 79.
She’s a young model and actress who lives in New York with her mom, said Brooke, 57 — who spoke about her lonely college years this week. The Blue Lagoon star had to take on a difficult role for anyone, especially a young child, and that was dealing with her mother’s alcoholism.
Terry served as Brooke’s manager until 1995, until her addiction forced Brooke to fire her.
‘As a daughter, I’ve been very busy trying to keep her alive and protect her from the world,’ she said, explaining in matter-of-fact fashion that she performed Terry’s first intervention when Brooke was just 13 years old.
I was in that role with her and she was so devastated, and even as a child, I didn’t pity, in a bad way, but respectful pity, if there was such a thing. She said to me, “What a shame, you have demons and I don’t want you to do that.”
Heartbreak: Brooke Shields is promoting her new documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, this week. During an interview with Today, Tuesday, she mentioned her mother, Teri, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 79.
Conflict: Brooke, 57, is a young model and actress who lives in New York with her mom. The Blue Lagoon star had to take on a difficult role for anyone, especially a young child, and that was dealing with her mother’s alcoholism.
Difficult relationship: Teri worked as Brooke’s manager until 1995, until her addiction forced Brooke to fire her
Now that she’s a mom, Brooke looks at some of the decisions Teri made in a different light.
I will only erase my mother’s alcoholism, because this was a constant source of torment for me.
“But all the other stuff has put me in a position now, albeit a few years later…to be like, ‘Yeah, bring it on.'” You can’t throw it away. I am here and will continue. ”
She also said that so much emphasis was placed on her beauty as a girl, that she never looked at herself in the mirror.
“I knew I wasn’t going to see what other people saw,” the actress, who revealed her issues with infertility and postpartum depression, explained in an interview on Monday. today Tuesday.
“I used to take dance classes and fall all the time because you’re supposed to figure it out,” Brooke revealed, saying she opted for fumbling instead to check her thinking.
“I was always on the defensive,” she explained, saying that she was always trying to prove, “I’m really a good girl, I’m really a nice girl” to others.
Agony: ‘As a daughter, I’ve been so busy trying to keep her alive and protect her from the world,’ she says, explaining in matter-of-fact fashion that she performed Terry’s first intervention when Brooke was just 13.
Painful past: “I was in that role with her and she was so devastated, and even as a child, I didn’t pity in a bad way, but respectful pity, if there was such a thing. She said to me, “What a shame, you have demons and I don’t want you to do that.”
Defensive: Brooke told interviewers Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager that as a young star she was always on the defensive.
There was a lot of pressure: She said she felt she always had to prove herself to others
Undervalued: Brooke said she felt undervalued in the early days of her career. “It was a 12-14 hour day and no one was really helping me with that from a performance standpoint and that was hard, learning that they don’t care what you want to bring to the table.”
The star looked glamorous in straight-leg jeans, a black and white graphic T-shirt, and a black blazer as she arrived at the NBC studios for an interview with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager.
Brooke wore beige ankle boots and carried a red bag as she fiddled with her phone with a green smoothie.
Her chestnut brown hair was styled in long, loose curls and her makeup was camera-ready.
Once inside, the People’s Choice Award winner changed into a tangerine pantsuit for her conversations with the hosts.
Mirror: Shields appeared confident when she arrived for an interview on Tuesday morning in New York
The star looked glamorous in straight-leg jeans, a black and white graphic T-shirt, and a black blazer as she arrived at the NBC studios. Her chestnut brown hair was styled in long, loose curls and her makeup was camera-ready
When she was working, Brooke said she felt undervalued by the adults around her.
I will say being on the set was really hard. It was really hard,” the Endless Love star explained.
“It was a 12 to 14 hour day and no one was really helping me with it from a performance standpoint and that was hard, learning that they don’t care what you want to bring to the table.”
But I learned that so quickly and early on that I thought, ‘Well, I’m not going to look to them for any kind of support, because I’m never going to get it. “
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields is now streaming on Hulu.
Her new feature: Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields is now streaming on Hulu
