Posted on 11/19/2014 4:29:27 PM PST by Morgana
I have always been fascinated with the actress, model, spokeswoman, and author Brooke Shields. She has always seemed a compelling mix of wholesomeness and glamour, forthrightness and mystery.
An ‘80s icon, she defined beauty and elegance. She socialized with living legends such as pop star Michael Jackson and tennis great Andre Agassi. I even worked with a TV producer who, during his time as a piano accompanist, had worked with Shields on a musical number.
He said she was the most beautiful woman he had ever met.
From an outsider’s point of view, she seemed to live a charmed life. But it was not Cover Girl perfect—her marriage to Agassi ended in divorce and she battled post-partum depression, a struggle she courageously and, in her own inspiring way, revealed in her book Down Came the Rain.
Now the super celebrity is out with a new missive, There Was a Little Girl. In the interest of full disclosure, I have only read a sample so far, but I was especially struck by a passage about the drama that surrounded her life pre-birth.
Shields writes in her book that, when her mother became pregnant, her boyfriend did not appear ready to assume the role of father. She surmises that he told his own Dad, who in turn, decided to convince her mother to “terminate the pregnancy.” Her grandfather explained to her mother how an out-of-wedlock birth could jeopardize her father’s standing on the “Social Registry.” Her granddad even went so far as to give her mother money for the abortion (This was pre-Roe v. Wade).
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Instead of visiting an abortionist, her mother went to an antique store and used the money to buy a coffee table.
Shields remarks that the table ironically became a favorite of hers, which she used to pull herself up from the floor as a toddler.
She writes, “The table saved my life and helped me to stand.”
It is hard to imagine the pop culture landscape without Brooke Shields. To think someone of such beauty and grace could have had her life ended before birth is so mind-boggling. Shields is a mother herself, so an entire family could easily have been swept away if her mother had chosen to cave into pressure and abort.
How many stars have been lost to abortion? You might think it’s impossible to count, but actually the number is more than 56 million. For every child who is aborted is a star in God’s galaxy—every single life has value and dignity.
We now just have one more beautiful face to remember as we contemplate the thin line between life and death in our world today.
Wholesome? Explain the movie Pretty Baby. "A teenage girl lives as a prostitute in the early decades of America, only to know her body is for bounty."
Yea I saw that in the article.
Yes I remember “Pretty Baby”
However she was a minor when she did that film and her mother, Teri Shields was her manager and put her up to that.
I’m actually shocked Brooke did not end up dead like JonBenet Ramsey.
Teenage????
12 or 13 IIRC,
Have you seen the movie?
Do you understand that a movie role is not the actor’s real life?
It’s a movie. Did she do it in real life?
She could fill out her jordache jeans.
How about some follow through with her relationship with grandpa, Maria.
It was a movie, but I’ll never understand her mother putting her up to that. I’d never do that to my daughter.
OK...real slow now...
"Pretty Baby" was not an Brook Shields autobiographical film...
Brooke is beautiful but I could never get past those low flying eyebrows. Glad life has turned out well for her.
I love her eyebrows. I loathe those plucked, pencil thin ones so many women favor, ugh. Not attractive.
Her mother used her. Child Welfare officials in CA would not let her appear in the film, no matter where it was filmed, so they moved to NJ.
Something us aging baby boomers can relate to.
Weird article.
No mention of Shields’ opinion on abortion.
Is she not a pro-Abortion liberal?
And wholesome?
Louis Malle’s (Candace Bergen’s husband) Pretty Baby was a morally ambiguous explicit film about a Pre-pubescent child prostitute. Receivers such as Roger Ebert felt compelled to make statements in their reviews that “this is not child pornography” because the film actually was as close as it gets.
Oops. You’re right.
I’ve been waiting for someone famous and accomplished who could have very well been aborted. I did not have her in mind but what about the potential Thomas Edisons’ out there?
“Instead of visiting an abortionist, her mother went to an antique store and used the money to buy a coffee table.”
Love this, hope it’s a true story.
There is nothing better than a good coffee table.
We have a great one, very sturdy, that we bought in the “scratch and dent” section of Ikea who knows how many years ago.
This year I’m actually going to buy my grandson some cooking toys/stuff etc. for Christmas, because when he comes to visit us he enjoys putting things on the lower shelf of the coffee table and telling us that they are “cooking”.
So glad Brooke Shields’ mom chose life!
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