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Brooke Shields
View off-the-runway photos- 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)
- Feuds
- Tom Cruise (Public disagreement over postpartum depression)
- Friends
- Kathy Ireland, Christie Brinkley
- Married
- Chris Henchy (since 2001), Andre Agassi (1997-1999)
- Children
- Rowan Francis (born 5/15/03), Grier Hammond (born 4/18/06)
- Model Turned...
- actress, writer
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Quoted
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“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 -
“The same passion that goes into shopping needs to go into supporting cancer charities.”
—Style.com
Brooke Shields's Career Highlights
- 31 MAY, 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
- 5 APR, 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
- 5 JUL, 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
- 28 JAN, 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
- 3 OCT, 1996
- Appears on the cover of Rolling Stone nude
- 25 FEB, 1997
- Files suit against The National Enquirer claiming their statements on her marriage difficulties and “pill-popping” were sensationalistic and false
- 19 APR, 1997
- Marries tennis superstar Andre Agassi
- 10 SEP, 1998
- Photographer Gary Gross holds an exhibit at Manhattan's American Fine Arts Gallery with the revealing shots of Shields
- 9 APR, 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
- 10 JAN, 2000
- Mark Ronald Bailey gets arrested
- 15 JUL, 2000
- Gets engaged to Chris Henchy while in Mexico
- 5 SEP, 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)
- 4 APR, 2001
- Marries Chris Henchy
- 15 MAY, 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
- 3 MAY, 2005
- Publishes Down Came the Rain about her struggle with postpartum depression
- 16 MAY, 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
- 18 APR, 2006
- Gives birth to Grier Hammond
- 31 AUG, 2006
- Cruise personally goes over to Shields's home to apologize for his disparaging words
- 5 SEP, 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»
- 7 FEB, 2008
- Stars in the television series Lipstick Jungle from the writer of Sex and the City, Candace Bushnell
- JUN 2008
- Featured in V, photographed by Hedi Slimane
- JUN 2008
- Releases a children's book Welcome to your World, Baby Story»
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