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Brooke Shields

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Real Name:
Brooke Christa Camille Shields
Nationality:
American
Birthday:
May 31, 1965
Born in:
New York, NY
Lives now:
Los Angeles, CA
Agencies:
Ford
Known for:
My postpartum depression work, my eyebrows
Status:
Retired (mostly)
Married:
Chris Henchy (since 2001), Andre Agassi (1997-1999)
Children:
Rowan Francis (born 5/15/03), Grier Hammond (born 4/18/06)
Friends with:
Christie Brinkley, Kathy Ireland
Feuding with:
Tom Cruise (Public disagreement over postpartum depression)
Model turned…
Actress (Lipstick Jungle, 2008; Suddenly Susan, 1996), writer (Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression)

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Career

Calvin Klein, 1980

May 31, 1965
Born in New York, New York
1977
Appears on the album cover of Nektar’s Magic Is a Child
1978
Named one of People magazine’s most intriguing people
1978
Featured as one of twelve promising new actors by John Willis's Screen World
Apr 5, 1978
Stars as a 12-year-old prostitute in the controversial film Pretty Baby
1980
Appears in The Muppet Show
1980
Named one of People magazine’s most intriguing people
1980
Becomes the face of Calvin Klein jeans
1980
Featured in TV ads for CK jeans wildly claiming, “Want to know what gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”
Feb 1980
Appears on the cover of Vogue, being the youngest cover girl in history, at 14
Jul 5, 1980
Stars as Emmeline, a child marooned on an island, in The Blue Lagoon
1981
Sues photographer Gary Gross over nude photos of Shields taken at the tender age of 10, claiming the images were upsetting
Feb 1981
Appears on the cover of Time magazine, representing the child of the eighties
Oct 1981
Appears on the cover of Cosmopolitan
Dec 1981
Appears on the cover of Life magazine
1983
Takes a break from acting and modeling to study at Princeton University
1983
Dates Dean Cain while at Princeton, belonging to the eating club “Cap and Gown”
Feb 1983
Appears on the cover of Life magazine
Sep 1983
Appears on the cover of French Vogue in the latest Parisian haute couture
1987
Graduates from Princeton with a degree in French literature and minor in Italian
1996
Named one of People magazine’s 50 most beautiful people in the world
1996
Named one of People magazine’s most intriguing people
Jan 28, 1996
Appears on the sitcom Friends, as Erika Ford, a potential stalker of Joey Tribbiani
Sep 1996
Headlines the sitcom Suddenly Susan, as Susan, a copy editor of a magazine
Oct 3, 1996
Appears on the cover of Rolling Stone nude
Feb 25, 1997
Files suit against The National Enquirer claiming their statements on her marriage difficulties and “pill-popping” were sensationalistic and false
Apr 19, 1997
Marries tennis superstar Andre Agassi
Sep 10, 1998
Photographer Gary Gross holds an exhibit at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Gallery with the revealing shots of Shields
Apr 9, 1999
Has marriage with Agassi annulled, allowing her to marry in the Catholic Church again, if so desired
Oct 1999
Stalker Mark Ronald Bailey begins to send copious amounts of letters, verbally harasses, and threatens Shields and her family’s safety
2000
Named one of People magazine’s 50 most beautiful people in the world
Jan 10, 2000
Mark Ronald Bailey gets arrested
Jul 15, 2000
Gets engaged to Chris Henchy while in Mexico
Sep 5, 2000
Mark Ronald Bailey pleads no contest to the harassment and is sentenced to severe psychological and emotional evaluations, on top of being placed under a restraining order (which includes keeping distance from Shields’s employees, her employers, or any of her agents)
Apr 4, 2001
Marries Chris Henchy
May 15, 2003
Gives birth to Rowan Francis in New York City
2004
Named one of the most glamorous women of all time by Harper’s Bazaar, alongside Coco Chanel, Nicole Kidman, and Grace Kelly
2005
Named one of the twentieth century's 100 most beautiful women by Harpers & Queen, alongside Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Gloria Swanson
May 3, 2005
Publishes Down Came the Rain about her struggle with postpartum depression
May 16, 2005
On Access Hollywood Tom Cruise openly criticizes Shields for her anti-depressant drug use
2006
Named one of People magazine’s 100 most beautiful people in the world
Apr 18, 2006
Gives birth to Grier Hammond
Aug 31, 2006
Cruise personally goes over to Shields's home to apologize for his disparaging words
Sep 5, 2006
Makes several cameos in the sitcom Nip/Tuck
Mar 2007
Appears on the cover of Life magazine
Nov 2007
Embarrassingly drives into the front of her Beverly Hills house when her shoe gets stuck under the gas pedal Story »
Feb 7, 2008
Stars in the television series Lipstick Jungle from the writer of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell

Quoted

“At my lowest points, I thought of swallowing a bottle of pills or jumping out the window of my apartment”

New York Times

“When I was younger, my dad would take me to lunch here at The Four Seasons a lot.”

New York magazine (August 23, 2004)

“The same passion that goes into shopping needs to go into supporting cancer charities.”

Style.com (October 2007)

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