A few months before her 60th birthday, actress Brooke Shields denounces the “ageism” of which she is a victim, in her autobiography “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old”

Brooke Shields is fed up with anti-aging comments and criticism and she’s speaking out loud and clear in her fourth book, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old (Brooke Shields n’has no right to grow old). Here are 5 revelations from the actress, model and author, now 59 years old.

“No one really has the right to age, least of all Brooke Shields”

The pressure that all women feel to “stay young forever” is certainly heightened for the woman who has embodied beauty for generations. Brooke Shields, who turns 60 in May, says she has given up on major procedures and is trying to be kind to herself to counter this anti-aging pressure.

“Beauty can take different forms. It is not necessarily associated with youth”

To escape this “dangerous and slippery slope” of the quest for youth which would be associated with beauty, the one who has long worn the label of “the most beautiful woman in the world” has fashioned a new type of symbol for herself: that of the woman aging without complexes.

“I can’t be that idol anymore because I don’t look like the one I was in The Blue Lagoon.»

Without wanting to compare herself to Marilyn Monroe, the actress explains that when a celebrity known for her beauty dies young and at the height of her fame, she is immortalized at that age. As this was not her case, she has had to fight for years this wish that her admirers have to still see her as she was when she was young and extremely popular.

‘It’s completely disgusting,’ she says of people’s comments towards one of her daughters when she was a child

Brooke Shields says that when her daughter Rowan was a baby, people would say, “Oh, my God, you don’t look like your mother. How come you don’t look more like your mother? Your mother was the most beautiful person in the world!” She calls the comments “completely disgusting,” which meant both that her daughter was not very pretty and that she was no longer beautiful because she no longer looked like the young woman she had been.

The miscarriage she experienced in her thirties was “the worst 12 consecutive hours of [sa] vie»

The author addresses the miscarriage she suffered when she was in her mid-30s. She describes this episode as “violent”, “excruciatingly painful” and as “the worst 12 consecutive hours” of her life.

– Brooke Shields’ book Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old is now on sale.