This felt especially true when she would be interviewed by journalists, whom she said would start with feigning that they would 'respect' her because she was young before seeming to try to catch her out. 'I think the assumption is that I was much more savvy than I ever really was,' she went on. I was a very protected, sequestered young woman in a bubble, that my mom was just paroling me outside of,' she said. 'What was shocking to me was to be berated by, "Oh, you knew this was happening. I was a very protected, sequestered young woman in a bubble, that my mom was just paroling me outside of,' she said (pictured 1978) 'I was away when they all came out, and then started hearing, "Oh, the commercials have been banned here, and Canada won't play them." And paparazzi and people screaming at me, and screaming at my mother, "How could you?" It just struck me as so ridiculous, the whole thing,' she said. That same year, she starred in the R-rate film Blue Lagoon, and divulged that she had a body double for the movie.īut though Brooke wasn't thinking that she was talking about going commando, the public certainly did - and the backlash was swift. In fact, Brooke said she had a 'disassociation' and 'compartmentalization' with her own sexuality, despite becoming a sex symbol at age 15. It didn't sort of come into my psyche as it being anything overtly sexual, sexualized in any way.' 'If they had intended on the double entendre, they didn't explain it to me,' she went on. 'It didn't faze me. I'd say that about my sister, nobody could come between me and my sister. 'I didn't think it had to do with underwear. 'I was naive, I didn't think anything of it,' she admitted. They shot several different ads, including the one that would go on to jump start her career - because of the implication that she wasn't wearing underwear with her jeans. And it was either gonna strike and be part of the zeitgeist or it wasn't,' she said. 'I was just so proud that they were trusting me with something that involved acting as well as just the visual. Every little bit of it,' she went on, reflecting on a specific pose in which she had one knee on the ground, the other knee resting on her foot, with her other foot in the air. 'The choreography was specific and intentional. Stakes were pretty high and I think there was a lot of pressure,' she remembered. I think, because Avedon, it was his foray into the commercial world. 'The shoot itself, no one was allowed on the set.
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'When I was 15, I didn't understand Calvin Klein in the way that he was sort of coming into the zeitgeist, it was more about Richard Avedon coming to my mom and saying, "We're doing a series of very unique commercials,"' she said. Published: 20:14 GMT, 29 October 2021 | Updated: 21:14 GMT, 29 October 2021īrooke recalled how Calvin Klein approached her mother, Teri Shields, about getting Brooke in the ads, and she was just so excited for the opportunity.
Brooke, 56, shot to stardom upon starring in a series of Calvin Klein commercials in 1980 when she was just 15.'I didn't think it was sexual!' Brooke Shields slams 'ridiculous' backlash against infamous Calvin Klein ad she filmed at age 15 - but admits she was 'naïve' about double entendre that led some countries to BAN it from screens
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