I think over the years, we'll see that this is exactly what was the issue. It has taken basic issues that young people have about self-esteem and put them on steroids. Do you think we'd be better off today if there had been some kind of moratorium on social media in order to understand its effect on kids? That's a little more complex. You don't know until you know, right? I'm not big on moratoriums. And so therefore, it's not the safety isn't there and it's too late.
After a brief discussion about the impact of social media on the mental health of teenage girls, Kara and Nayeema turn to today’s guest: Brooke Shields. She became a teenage superstar through her roles in “Pretty Baby” and “Blue Lagoon” as well as the famous Calvin Klein ads (“Do you want to know what comes in between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”). In her new Hulu documentary, “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,” she talks about how she sees those hypersexualized roles today and how she survived life in an industry that she says did nothing to help her. Shields also revisits her complex relationship with her mother, who introduced her to modeling and acting, and how Shields now counsels her own two teenage daughters about feeding the social media “monster.”
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