I wanted it to be in my ego was a retrospective of all the amazing talent that I displayed. And look at me in this and I wanted my daughters to say, oh my God, you're so funny. So there were all these like little insecure ego pieces that I immediately thought,Oh, this is going to be cool. And then I stepped out of that. And I thought, you know what, this is a life that is very unique in the world. It's unique in the way it has survived. When I look at who I am today, part of me really sees me as a little girl. Like I'm a little bit that same person that you see in those
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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