There's been this big trend of reclaiming the narrative from women who were representing what it meant to be female in the 80s and 90s. What was interesting about this documentary by Brooke Shields is that she doesn't play the victim. She didn't immediately say I was taken advantage of or this and that. You can come to many different conclusions watching this thing. And I think she's trying to be as removed from it as possible as she talks about it even like looks a little compartmentalized on the screen.
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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