(“You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”) There was her collegiate advice book, “ On Your Own,” which came out while she was attending Princeton University and revealed that she was a virgin, a fact that transformed her from a symbol of libertinism into one of Reagan-era chastity. There were the Calvin Klein jeans commercials that were deemed too sexual. She was fifteen.Īs she matured, very much under the world’s glare, more controversies followed. (As Pauline Kael put it, “All we have to look forward to is: When are these two going to discover fornication?”) The film, released in the summer of 1980, turned Shields into a provocative sex symbol, once again putting her on a pedestal that felt more like a witness stand. Two years later, she starred in “The Blue Lagoon,” in which two young people, shipwrecked on a desert island, stumble into sexuality.
Shields was immediately called on to defend her nude scenes, all while navigating the alcoholism of her mother and manager, Teri Shields. Her first big movie role, filmed when she was eleven, was in Louis Malle’s “Pretty Baby,” from 1978, about a child prostitute in early-twentieth-century New Orleans. Born in 1965, Shields began modelling during infancy, and she has lived in the public eye-as a totem of American girlhood, as a paragon of beauty, as a lightning rod-ever since. The more you learn about Brooke Shields’s life, the more you marvel at how well-adjusted she must be to have got through it all in one piece.
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