You Will Not BELIEVE The Horrifying Things Written About Brooke Shields When She Was 12!
01.04.2023 - 02:53
/ perezhilton.com
[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]
We’ve always thought of her as a strong, successful woman. But Brooke Shields may genuinely be one of the most mistreated stars of all time.
On Monday her Hulu documentary Pretty Baby premieres, and it promises to expose a whole generation for exploiting a very, very young girl. We’re not just talking about films like The Blue Lagoon, which she appeared in when she was just 14 years old (her nude scenes were simulated by a 30-year-old model — but not her scenes with a fully nude 18-year-old Christopher Atkins). No, this was even before that.
She began as a child model, and was sexualized basically from jump street. It’s really horrifying.
In anticipation of the doc, which we’re sure will be all kinds of upsetting, a magazine article resurfaced and has gone viral. The High Times piece is a shocking surviving example of the disgusting way in which adults talked about a 12-year-old girl.
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In the article, writer Ed Dwyer — who apparently still works as a freelance journalist even today for the likes of Variety and The Saturday Evening Post — describes a preteen Brooke Shields who just starred in the film Pretty Baby, the upsetting story of a girl in the 1900s born and raised in a brothel. But rather than note her exceptional acting or realism, the entire piece focuses on how *ick* hot she is. We could not make this up. She is described in the profile as:
If you’re back from throwing up, you may be wondering the same thing as us. How is all of 1978 not in prison??
You can see the entire article captured in a viral tweet (below):
This man was not run out of the business. The editor of the magazine