Jade Small
Jade Small
January 4, 2024 ·  4 min read

Brooke Sheilds Reveals The Secret She’s Kept For Decades

In the name of classic movies, Brooke Shields is honored as one of the most well-known names in Hollywood. Her role in Blue Lagoon as a teenage girl shipwrecked on an island earned her international fame. She later went through a highly traumatic experience. One that she only revealed decades later.

Brooke Shields Finally Speaks Up

The 1970s, and earlier decades, were not exactly the highest point in the moral grounds of Hollywood. Many things that would be deemed inappropriate these days, were completely acceptable back then. Brooke Shields was one of the youngest actresses to be exposed to this travesty. Most people are familiar with her as a young girl from her role in the movie, Blue Lagoon.

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She was seen half-naked throughout 90% of the film. Even though she was only 14 at the time, she only had her hair covering her breasts. Luckily, the makeup and wardrobe departments found a way to get her hair to stick over that area so the wind didn’t expose her bare skin. This was later brought to the attention of the moral public who considered the movie extremely controversial.

Blue Lagoon was not her only controversial movie. In fact, years before Blue Lagoon was shot, 11-year-old Brooke Shields was given a part in a movie called Pretty Baby. This movie shows a 12-year-old child prostitute in the Red Light District of New Orleans. She was being operated in front of the brothel’s wealthy and high-end clients who all bid against each other for a chance to take her virginity.

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While in Blue Lagoon she was half naked, In Pretty Baby, she was stark naked. Furthermore, she had to kiss Kieth Carradine who was 29 years old at the time. That’s more than double her age. The French director, Louis Malle, had his mind set on Brooke to play the part of the child prostitute. Even though the studio that produced the film originally intended Jodie Forster, who was 14 at the time, to take the role. Malle ended up getting his way, and Brooke was given the part.

A Secret Revealed

Sadly, this was not the only exploitative movie that Brooke Shields starred in, this was only the beginning. She released a documentary earlier this year, ironically called “Pretty Baby”, just as the first nudity-exploitative movie was named. The documentary talks about her exposure to certain elements a young girl should have no concept of. Additionally, she revealed a secret she has harbored since she was in her early twenties.

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When Brooke Shields was 22, she was invited out for dinner with a friend, whose name is kept secret. The man made it seem as if the purpose of the dinner was to discuss up-and-coming film projects. However, when they finished eating things took a turn for the worst. The unnamed man invited her up to his apartment where she could call a taxi. The trusting Brooke did so without a second thought. Once she called the cab, the man disappeared to his room for a moment. She decided to pick up a pair of binoculars to study the world outside.

A moment later, the man returned, but he had taken all of his clothes off. Naked, he approached her and then attacked her. “I put the binoculars down and he’s right on me. Just like, was wrestling,” said Brooke. “I was afraid I’d get choked out or something. So, I didn’t fight that much. I didn’t. I just absolutely froze.”

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Brooke Shields, the Master of Dissasociating

Thanks to all the scenes where young Brooke Shields was made to do something either naked, or half-naked, she had become a master of disassociating from her body. This was exactly what her instinct told her to do at the moment she was being raped. “I thought one ‘No’ should’ve been enough, and I just thought, ‘Stay alive and get out,’ and I just shut it out,” She said in the documentary. “God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I’d practiced that.’”

When the ordeal was over she stumbled out of the apartment, and clambered into the taxi she had ordered. It was then that she opened the flood gates, and cried the whole way to her friend’s apartment. After explaining what had happened to her head of security, she was informed that she had been raped. However, Brooke Shields chose not to speak out about the incident. She “wanted to erase the whole thing from [her] mind and body and just keep on the path [she] was on.” So, she kept quiet, not revealing anything – until now.

Sources

  1. After keeping her secret for decades, why Pretty Baby star Brooke Shields, 57, is now telling the most disturbing ‘Me Too’ Hollywood story of all.Daily Mail. Tom Leonard. February 3, 2023
  2. Brooke Shields kept rape a secret for decades.Toronto Sun. January 22, 2023.