Brooke Shields was raped as a young woman after graduating from Princeton University in the late 1980s.
And in the first official trailer for his two-part documentary, Pretty Baby, he went into detail about the attack.
The 57-year-old model also shared that she wrote to her attacker years later, but he did not reply. She has never named the man.
Brooke added that despite her silence, she refused to feel like a “victim” and “wanted to erase everything from my mind and body and continue on the path that I was on.”
The Vogue cover girl was hoping to return to making Hollywood movies when the violent attack happened.
She was raped by a man she thought was a ‘friend’ after having dinner to talk about her film project dreams.
Heartbreaking: Brooke Shields was raped as a young woman in 1987. And in the first official trailer for her two-part documentary, Pretty Baby, she went into detail about the attack.
No closure: The 57-year-old model also shared that she wrote to her attacker years later, but he didn’t reply. She has never named the man.
She cries when she tells the story in her two-part documentary Pretty Baby.
At the time of the rape, she was trying to return to acting after graduating in 1987 from Princeton University.
She described going back to her attacker’s room after dinner to talk about her future career: “I go upstairs to the hotel room and he disappears for a while.”
Brooke added that she took a pair of binoculars from the room and was using them to watch some volleyball players through the window when he came back naked and launched his attack.
She said: ‘I put the binoculars down and he’s right over me. Like, he was wrestling. I was afraid that I would drown or something. So, I didn’t fight as much. I didn’t. I absolutely froze.
“I thought ‘No’ should have been enough, and I just thought, ‘Stay alive and get out,’ and just shut up.
God knows I knew how to disassociate myself from my body. I had practiced that.
Young lady: was raped in 1987 just a year before this photo was taken in 1988 in New York
She got into a taxi after the rape and cried all the way to a friend’s apartment.
She said she told her head of security, Gavin de Becker, about the incident, who told her: “That’s rape.”
But she said she was not “willing to believe that” and has not detailed the incident publicly until now.
She said she wrote to her attacker years later, but he didn’t reply. Despite her silence, she refused to feel like ‘a victim’ and ‘wanted to erase the whole thing from my mind and body and just continue on the path I was on’.
But now, just over a year after giving an interview in which she claimed she’d been “sort of untouchable… Not pushovers,” and never had a “#MeToo moment” of her own, she’s singing a tune. very different.
Painful: Brooke added that despite her silence, she refused to feel like ‘a victim’ and that she ‘wanted to erase everything from my mind and body and continue on the path I was on’
She wanted a career: The Vogue cover girl was hoping to get back to making Hollywood movies when the violent attack happened. She was raped by a man she thought was a ‘friend’ after having dinner to talk about her dreams of her film project. Seen in 1988
Despite her vampire image, Shields would later admit that she didn’t have sex until she was 22, and would have preferred to wait even longer.
It was a revelation that saw her callously dubbed ‘America’s Most Famous Virgin’. Yet her abstinence had undoubtedly helped her escape the worst excesses of Hollywood’s sexual predators.
For years he credited his fiercely defensive mother, Teri, who was also his manager. “If somebody gave me sidelong glances, he’d say, ‘I’ll cut your butt off and make you eat it,'” Shields said in 2019.
Named after one of her early films, in which she played a child prostitute, the documentary traces her rise to fame before finding her confidence and what she calls in the trailer her ‘own opinion’ and ‘own voice’. .
She adds at the end of the teaser: “Now, it’s like I’m allowed to be a human being.”
Brooke has two daughters, Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16, with her husband, director Chris Henchy, 58.
Horrifying encounter: She says in the film about going back to her attacker’s room after dinner to discuss her future career: “I go upstairs to the hotel room and he disappears for a while.” Brooke added that she took a pair of binoculars from the room and was using them to watch some volleyball players out the window when he came back naked and launched the attack on him.
In her role in Pretty Baby at age 11, Brooke appeared nude as a child prostitute with 29-year-old Keith Carradine.
At 15, she appeared in two more films, Blue Lagoon and Endless Love, which included sex and nudity.
She also did a nude photo shoot at age 10.
Brooke has said that she did not lose her virginity until she was 22 due to a lack of self-confidence.
The mother of two went on to reflect on being selected for the cover of Time magazine in 1981, at just 16 years old, to represent ’80s style.
“I was on the cover of Time magazine as the face of that whole era. Who decides that? she asked.
Shields admitted that she’s “shocked” that she “survived any of that.”
“I found my confidence and I thought, ‘I can have my own opinion,'” she reflected after years of struggling to ‘find’ her ‘own voice’ during her teens and early life.
Child star Drew Barrymore made a cameo appearance in the preview as he told viewers that he “loved” Shields’ tone about moving on in life.
Her childhood friend, Laura Linney, recalls that, at the time, she always hoped that Shields was “okay” after being “catapulted into the world of adult sexuality” at such a young age.
The A Castle for Christmas star stated that she was “just born with this face” and has spent a lot of time thinking about the things “that could have happened without the beauty.”
Celebrated For Her Appearance: Looking back now, Shields recounts how the “entirety” of her life was bombarded by people calling her a “pretty” face over and over again.
Despite her vampiric image, Shields would later admit that she didn’t have sex until she was 22, and would have preferred to wait even longer; seen on pretty baby at 11
Devastating: In 2005, Shields revealed that she had suffered from postpartum depression and had even considered committing suicide. “I finally had a beautiful healthy baby girl and I couldn’t look at her,” she revealed.
‘Now, it’s like I’m allowed to be a human being.’ she marveled.
At 14, when other girls were still decorating their pencil cases, she had become the youngest model to grace the cover of Vogue.
That same year, he began filming the raunchy teen romance Blue Lagoon, in which his character frequently stripped naked and had sex with his shipwrecked girlfriend (played by Christopher Atkins, then 18).
A body double replaced her sex scenes but, Shields says, the filmmakers encouraged her to pursue a real romance with Atkins offscreen.
There was more sex and nudity for her the following year in Franco Zeffirelli’s romantic drama Endless Love, about two high school sweethearts who are forbidden from seeing each other.
And at 15, she appeared, squirming in figure-hugging denim, in provocative ads for Calvin Klein Jeans, which featured the suggestive tagline: ‘Want to know what’s coming between me and my Calvin? Nothing.’
The movies and that publicity campaign helped propel her to international stardom.
Known around the world simply as ‘Brooke’, she became the party mascot of New York’s Studio 54 nightclub. she once described as ‘so beautiful that strong men forget to shake the ash from her cigar’.