Brooke Shields is getting actual concerning the toll physique picture points have taken on her over time.
In her new memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old,” the “Mother of the Bride” star, 59, claimed her ex-husband Andre Agassi left her spinning “a bit” after giving her a backhanded praise about her weight.
“I was very specifically told I was not runway worthy, because I wasn’t skinny enough,” Shields wrote in chapter 6 of the e-book, reflecting on messages she obtained about her appears to be like all through her profession.
“Being told you are ‘the face,’ you begin to believe that’s all you are — a face,” she added. “From the neck up, I was Brooke Shields, but it was like my body existed in a different reality.”
Throughout her transient marriage to Agassi, the “Pretty Baby” star shared her physique picture struggles with the tennis professional. Nevertheless, in keeping with Shields, the eight-time tennis grand slam champ didn’t present her with the peace of mind she was in search of.
“When I would profess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you,’” she recalled.
“However when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ (I meant once I got pregnant — an unfair question for anybody to ask another person I know!) I could never have expected his response.”
Shields wrote that the athlete advised her, “‘I love you too much to let you get big and fat!’”
“I definitely did not see that coming and must admit I started to spin a bit,” she confessed. “But we all know how that relationship turned out.”
The couple married in 1997 earlier than divorcing in 1999.
Shields — who shares daughters Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18, with husband Chris Henchy — didn’t have any youngsters with Agassi throughout their short-lived union.
At the moment, she is “glad” about that reality, owing to a remark she alleged Agassi made throughout their break up.
“‘Be thankful we didn’t have children,’ he said, ‘because I would not have made this easy for you,’” she recalled.
The reminiscence caught together with her.
“It would have been a disaster,” she wrote. “When we got divorced, he made that very clear.”
Among the many different tales Shields recounted in her new e-book was how her 2005 feud with Tom Cruise ended after he blasted her for taking medicine to deal with postpartum melancholy.
“Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman” is out there for buy now.
