Brooke Shields is no stranger to body-shaming. Snide comments from her mother, like calling her “fat”, took a toll on the beauty early in her life. She recounted:
“I modeled swimwear when I was 15, and even then I didn’t think I had a swimsuit body. I was a cover girl, not a supermodel. I was ‘neck up’ — the face, the eyebrows — and I was always described as ‘athletic’; ‘not rail-thin’; ‘not a runway model.’ Those messages, they seep into your consciousness.”
Still, her husband, Chris Henchy, “celebrated” her body.
“I would walk backwards out of rooms, and he’d say: ‘No, I want to grab onto you.’ He really celebrated my womanliness and my body. And I needed a man to celebrate me.”
Sources:
Brooke Shields was body-shamed but her husband had a fitting response (msn.com)
Brooke Shields recalls being body-shamed by her mother (today.com)
