The Gwyneth Paltrow trial is actually indicative of a fascination that our culture has with these power women whose idealized version kind of like taunts us and haunts us. Andriagasy: Brooke Shields is an unique character in sort of the annals of just not just celebrity but modeling and she's such a nexus of everything. The obsession with her looks and the sexualization of young girls all plays into issues we have today.
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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