Brooke Shields, one of the biggest movie stars in the 80s and 90s, has revealed that she was raped in her early days
In the documentary that reviews her life, she explains how a producer raped her and was not able to become aware of what had happened
Already as a child she was sexualized as a model and actress, posing nude at only 11 years old
Brooke Shields, 57, She was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood during the 80s and 90s, when she was just a kid. Before achieving fame as an actress, she already had a long career as a child model, reaching post nude photos of her and sexualizing her, being even a minor. “I only did what they told me,” says the actress now in the documentary ‘Pretty Baby, Brooke Shields’, which reviews the life of the actress and where she herself reveals lurid details of her career, such as that she was raped in the beginning by a producer.
A sexualized girl
With only 11 years old, she starred in the movie ‘Pretty baby’, where she appeared naked and kissed the actor Keith Carradine, who was 29 years old at the time. After that, without yet reaching the age of majority, she participated in other films that also included sex scenes and nudes. All this before experiencing it in real life since, as she tells it, she filmed her first kiss or her first sex scene before kissing someone or having sex in real life.
However, one of the hardest stories of the leading actress of ‘The Blue Lagoon’ comes a few years later. Despite the jobs she had been involved in, being sexualized by viewers as a child, Shields received a Catholic upbringing and on occasion openly spoke of her virginity despite having filmed sexual scenes, some comments that years later he commented that he should not have done.
The harsh story of her rape
He tells this now in the documentary, where he recounts that, after taking a break in his career to go to university, found out about a casting for a movie when he was close to graduating, so he decided to do it and try his luck on the road to resume his acting career. She stayed with the producer, who was the one who abused her.
According to the actress in her documentary, this he undressed and raped her. “I let myself do, I tried not to think, that he did not hurt me and then go away ”, he tells the camera. “It was like a fight, I was afraid that I would suffocate or something. I didn’t fight. She was totally petrified. I thought a ‘no’ should have been enough. She thought: ‘stay alive and go’”, he says during one of the hardest parts of the footage.
He never denounced it, what’s more, he came to feel guilty, because at that moment did not realize what had happened until, when she told a friend, she told him that she had been raped. “I wanted to erase it from my mind and my body and continue on the path that I was on,” she recalls of that moment.
