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  •   Home > News > Entertainment

    Brooke Shields thinks fame is "weird"

    The 59-year-old actress began modelling as a child and made her film debut in the 1976 slasher movie 'Alice, Sweet Alice' - and Brooke has now acknowledged that her experience of fame has been a roller-coaster ride


    Speaking to the Observer newspaper, Brooke explained: "I burst on the scene in the 80s. Things were really different back then. Not as many people were famous and I was four of them out of ten.

    "Believe me, I'm grateful for all of it. Still, I've lived through some really weird s***, fame is weird when you're a preteen."

    Brooke thinks it would have been easy for her to lose all sense of perspective amid her rise to stardom.

    She said: "How have I not gone off the rails? Fame is weird. It can mess with your head. You get, 'My God, I love you and I thought you were dead!'"

    Meanwhile, Brooke recently claimed that she only accepts "work that serves [her]".

    The actress decided to renegotiate her 16-film deal with the Hallmark Network after just three movies, and she doesn't have any regrets about being so assertive.

    In her new memoir, 'Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman', she shared: "I'd completed only three when I realised I had to renegotiate.

    "I'd been hired, I was told, to help change the face of the network. They wanted me to be funny and bring more comedy to their offerings, but as filming progressed on each of the 'Flower Shop Mysteries' - the franchise I was hired to headline - all the humour had evaporated."

    Brooke starred in three Hallmark movies in 2016 - but she quickly felt an urge to renegotiate her contract.

    She explained: "Not everything is for everyone, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Hallmark Channel - God knows it has a huge fan base - but it was not the future I wanted for my career.

    "I'm never against hard work, but I am now a believer in only saying yes to work that serves me."

    © 2025 Bang Showbiz, NZCity

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