Beloved and I watched the two-part ABC News/Hulu documentary, PRETTY BABY Brooke Shields, and hoo-boy!
There was the standard chronological rundown of her career, starting with commercials as a baby, quickly followed by her highly-sexualized commercials as a child...and teen...and on and on. The movies Pretty Baby, Blue Lagoon, and Endless Love all focused on her character losing her virginity...at the ages of 12, 14, and 15.
The documentary rightly wonders if these movies could even be made today, especially Pretty Baby and Blue Lagoon, but in the final few minutes, in a conversation between the now 57-year-old Shields and her two daughters, an interesting observation about the similarities between what was done to Shields and what today's social media "influencers" are doing to themselves hits home.
While a few of the images shown are adult-ish, and the subject matter is definitely for the mature of mind and heart, both my thumbs are up for this doc, and both my eyes are wide open in amazement at how Shields has managed to live through it all with a fairly healthy self-image.
There are some important parent-child conversations to be had based on this piece of work.
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