Hollywood (and the world in general) is known to have unrealistic beauty standards for women, especially when it comes to ageing.
And one star in particular has had enough of the illogical pressure put on her to look the same as she did 40 years ago.
Brooke Shields has written a new memoir titled, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old, and in a new interview with the Los Angeles Times, she’s shared what inspired her to write it.
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“I was doing an Instagram Live and people were saying, ‘I really wish you looked like you used to’,” she told the publication.
Shields has previously written books centered on her postpartum depression and her complicated relationship with her mother, but she said writing this memoir was uncharted territory for her.
It began as a suggestion from her agent, but she wasn’t entirely sure it was a project she wanted to take on.
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”But as I was thinking about it, it’s indicative of age to feel this desire and need to look at where I am in my life and look back differently, but don’t stay looking back,” she explained.
She decided to write the book simply because she believed that rather than reflecting negatively on ageing, she could instead make it “funny, irreverent, silly but truthful and have it be positive for women, instead of what we’re taught to fear about age.”
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Shields first hit screens back in 1978 when she was just 12 years old in the controversial film Pretty Baby.
Back in 2023, she revisited her decades-long career in a documentary of the same name, which went on to be nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding directing for a documentary/nonfiction program.
Her book Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old is set to hit shelves this week on January 14.
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