BROOKE SHIELDS LEARNED TO ‘CELEBRATE HER BODY’
at the age of 54
Brooke made her debut on the cover of Vogue in 1980 when she was just 14 years old. That same year, she starred in her famous Calvin Klein jeans campaign
Brooke Shields has shared her secret weapon for looking and feeling young — revealing she uses healing balm to give herself a dewy glow and keep her famous brows in place.
The 54-year-old actress appeared on The Dr. Oz Show on Monday, where she demonstrated how she uses the inexpensive drugstore staple to fake a youthful appearance while reflecting on what it was like to grow up with the public fixated on her looks.
'I had a really fraught relationship with the whole idea of beauty since I was a little kid,' she told Dr. Mehmet Oz during their sit-down interview. 'There was a disconnect between my head and my body.' Brooke made her debut on the cover of Vogue in 1980 when she was just 14 years old. That same year, she starred in her famous
Calvin Klein jeans campaign, which was shot and directed by photographer Richard Avedon.
Although she has always been lauded for her beauty, she admitted she has only recently started to embrace her looks.
'What's interesting about it now as a 54-year-old, I'm now starting to celebrate my body in a way that I never felt free to do it as a kid,' she said. 'I think that when there's such scrutiny, and there's so much attention paid to the physical, I just shut down. So instead I kind of avoided it and threw myself into my studies.'
In 1983, she famously put her modelling career on hold to attend Princeton University, where she graduated with a bachelor's degree in romance languages. Brooke has since overcome the body issues that plagued her as a child, and her Instagram page is filled with a mix of fresh-faced selfies, swimsuit shots, and throwback photos from her early modelling days. She showed
Dr. Oz how she uses healing balm such as petroleum jelly to keep her skin and hair moisturised. 'Always, from the time I was a little girl, would just put on my eyebrows, so it keeps them sculpted,' she said as she rubbed the balm on her brows. Where would you put it on me?' the host asked. 'Fix this face. This face needs help.'
'What a nice little hack,' Dr. Oz said. 'Yes, it's just a good little conditioner,' his guest agreed. During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live last month, Brooke denied ever getting work done on her famous face, though she admitted she isn't opposed to the idea.