Brooke is the daughter of minor actress Teri Shields and the grand-daughter of Frank Shields, a good-looking and flamboyant amateur tennis champion who had some movie parts in the mid-1930s. She is also a second cousin of Glenn Close. Through her grandmother, Marina Torlonia, Brooke is descended from the notorious Lucrecia Borgia, King Henri IV of France, and many other historical figures.
Her screen career began with a TV commercial for Ivory soap, and her first movie was Alice, Sweet Alice (1977) but she first became famous as a Calvin Klein
… More model and for her role as Violet in Pretty Baby (1978).Brooke is a Princeton graduate in French Literature. She added 'Camille' to her names when she was ten, and is a vegetarian. She was named as Time magazine's 'Face of the Eighties'.
Former boyfriends include Dean Cain (when they were both at Princeton), Michael Bolton, John F. Kennedy Jr, Liam Neeson and Michael Jackson. She was married to the tennis player Andre Agassi from 1997 to April 1999, and was a close friend of the actor David Strickland (Todd in Suddenly Susan), who hanged himself in 1999. The marriage to Agassi was later annulled, enabling Brooke to marry screenwriter Chris Henchy in the Catholic church on 4 April 2001. They now have one daughter, Rowan Francis, born in May 2003.
I'm currently reading Brooke's book Down Came The Rain about her battle with postpardom depression. It's a very powerful book, has anyone else read it?
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Really Brooke Shields is one of the all time greats. And that she is really grown from a child star. To an all-time beautiful woman. And that I applaud her for not just her professional but her personal life. Trying to stick up after the Tom Cruise spat. And that she proves that she can hold her own. Did you know that she graduated magna cum laude from the Yale University. And that also she battled post-partum depression after the birth of her first child. Now she is getting ready to star in the tv show "Lipstick Jungle" and hope that it is much better than "Suddenly Susan" her nineties sitcom was.
Unfortunately the classifications I would want to have for Brooke Shields is not there. I give major props to her. I have depression, not post partum depression but depression so some of the emotions she felt are the same with basically any depression and I know somewhat what she was going through. I didn't become a fan of her's until after reading her book titled Down Came The Rain: My Journey Through Post Partum Depression. She is an amazing, brave, and couragous person. She knew she had to write that book. In writing that book she brought the awareness, because of the war that was sparked. (Refuse to say that persons name since I have so much hatred to them). Well Brooke is an amazing person.
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