Brooke Shields Knows It's Impressive She Graduated From Princeton

27.10.2022 - 20:13 / glamour.com

Where you go to college isn't the end all, be all for most young adults. But for Brooke Shields, who had been in the public eye since literal infancy, her acceptance into Princeton University was a complete game changer. Anyone who’s lived a little knows that no matter what course your life is on, everything can change in an instant.

A party invitation you accept, a phone call you decline—even whether you return a stranger’s smile or put on your headphones instead—an action (or inaction) that unfolds in mere seconds can upend your trajectory. In , Glamour talks to some of the most interesting women we know about the pivotal life moments that have come to determine who they are today.Brooke Shields is many things: An actor, a model, an entrepreneur, a mother, and, as of this month, a podcaster. But let's not forget: She's also a Princeton graduate. Of course, it should go without saying that your alma mater doesn't define you.

In fact, for Shields, now 57, acceptance into a prestigious university had the opposite effect: It helped her break free of the preconceptions Hollywood had assigned her as a young, beautiful actor and model. By the time she was 18, an entire industry had already made up their minds about what Shields's future held. Her education helped her fight back. “The ability to say I graduated with honors from this esteemed place, coming from the entertainment industry, it enabled me to have my own opinions,” says Shields, who first began working at just 11 months old.

“And I don't think I had them before. It was just, 'Oh, she's the pretty one. That's the model,' or whatever.

It was all very surface, which is fine. I had a blast. But I knew I needed to develop intellectually so I wouldn't become a victim to