This ’80s icon is keeping it au natural.
Brooke Shields opened up about her legendary career and life with Glamour after being named one of the mag’s Women of the Year for 2023, and along with chatting about modeling, acting and being a mom, she shared her refreshing philosophy on aging.
The “Pretty Baby” star, 58, confessed that she wasn’t a fan of getting injectables, sharing that her past results made her feel like a different person.
“I am all for any of it if it truly is done for yourself, for the right reasons, and gives you a level of some kind of confidence that you need,” she said when asked about her thoughts on cosmetic procedures.
While Shields said she’s “seen it give women such confidence,” she also feels like “it’s easy to go down the slope of overdoing it.”
“I’m scared of not looking like myself; the times that I’ve had Botox, I end up with this Spock eye and I’m like, ‘I don’t look like myself.’ But I’ll get Fraxels, and peels, and whatever the newest thing is, and I’ll try it,” she said, adding, “I just don’t want to not look like myself.”
The “Now What? With Brooke Shields” podcast host continued that older women are looked at in “some cultures” like “the wise women who decide who the chiefs are, who are revered.”
However, she mused that in 2023, “There’s more and more plastic surgery than ever. Because they’re chasing youth. I don’t want to chase youth. I want to chase now.”
Shields — who rocked a black Saint Laurent blazer sans pants in her cover shot — also discussed her daughters Rowan Henchy, 20, and Grier Henchy, 17, wearing her clothes in recent years, saying it made her “feel great,” especially because she “never dreamt they would want to wear” her old things.
“If I had tried to tell them what to wear, they would’ve gotten so mad at me and been like, ‘Mom, that’s weird,'” she told Glamour. “But they both went down unbeknownst to me, to the cedar closet where all the archive stuff is, and their bodies now were what my body used to be, and they fit them like a glove.”
“I just thought they would think I’m old-fashioned and I’m not cool,” she continued.
Rowan even wore her mom’s 1998 Golden Globes dress to the prom in 2021, with Shields sharing a behind-the-scenes story from her own big night when she was “nominated for a Golden Globe for ‘Suddenly Susan.'”
“I did Lana Turner hair and red lips,” she said of her bespoke dress, sharing, “I felt so pretty.”
Sadly, the glam look backfired, with the actress sharing that her agent “lambasted” her for the outfit, telling her, “You are never going to be taken seriously if you wear red! You looked like an old-time movie star and that’s not serious, and you’re never going to get acting jobs.”
Shields — who also shared in the interview that Bradley Cooper helped her through a scary seizure at a NYC restaurant — got the last laugh, though, telling Glamour, “The next year everybody wore red and I tore all the photos out, and I sent it to the agents, and I was like, ‘I’m ahead of my time, f—kers.'”
As for getting older in an industry dominated by youth, the modeling legend said, “People can’t handle it.”
“You’re being put out to pasture, and it’s ironic, and it’s wrong and not fair,” she said, “You look at the women who are over 40 — their history, their vibrance, their intelligence, their responsibility, their adaptability … We were the Amazons!”
