Shields has been defending and justifying her mother pretty much since she learnt to talk. “I mean, I could say, ‘Oh, it was the time back then.’ Or ‘Oh, it was art.’ But I don’t know why she thought it was all right. “That was hard for me, to not justify my mom to them, but when they asked me, I thought, ‘Oh god, I have to admit this,’ ” Shields, 57, tells me. “No,” Shields replies instinctively, and her shoulders collapse. “Would you have let us at the age of 11?” Instead it comes when she’s sitting at her dining table and her two daughters, Rowan, 19, and Grier, 17, are explaining why they will never see Malle’s movie. And it’s not when she talks publicly for the first time about being raped in her early 20s by a man she thought wanted to hire her for a film. It doesn’t happen when she’s talking about the time her mother, Teri, agreed for her to pose fully nude at the age of 10 for a Playboy publication nor when recalling her role as a child prostitute a year later in Louis Malle’s 1978 film, also called Pretty Baby. There’s a moment towards the end of Brooke Shields’s new documentary about her extraordinary life, titled Pretty Baby, where you can see her defences come crashing down.
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