Are parents always right when it comes to consent on behalf of their children? That’s the question especially raised by the two-part Hulu documentary Brooke ShieldsPretty Baby on the story of this child star, hypersexualized at such a young age with her mother’s consent. She the latter accepted that her daughter posed naked in the pages of Playboy from the age of 10, she played a child prostitute in the drama The small by Louis Malle. Or the beginning of a hyper-exposed career, enclosed in the almost need to undress in order to continue to exist right from the start.
It is in this context that one can understand why Brooke Shields may have felt reluctant about the idea of her daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy, 17, becoming a model herself.
Brooke Shields to daughter who would like to become a model: “I will not be your manager”
The actress confided in the show Live with Kelly and Mark 1um May 2023:
“It’s such a different industry now than it used to be… I finally had to give up and say, ‘If you’re going to do this [devenir mannequin], I will not be your manager. You will be in an agency. You will have an excellent work ethic. It won’t be comfortable and you will listen to me.’ »
Brooke Shields feared that her daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy, who wants to be a runway model, would bear the full brunt of this environment. And if she refuses to be her manager, it is precisely to avoid the kind of excesses that she herself may have suffered with her mother, Teri. She the latter died in 2012, at the age of 72, without having had time to explain herself to Brooke Shields, who remembers her for being both very protective and very naive. Only they were so fusional that Brooke Shields killed a lot to protect her, she explained, without anger, to the Timesin March 2023:
“It’s so innate to be the only child of a single mother. All you want is to love your parents and keep them alive forever, so I wanted to protect her. And by protecting her, I was justifying everything and that solidified that bond between us. »
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Source: Madmoizelle
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