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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Amber Raiken

Brooke Shields doesn’t know why her mother ‘thought it was all right’ for her to pose nude at age 10

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Brooke Shields has spoken candidly about her early career, with the actor confessing that she didn’t know why her mother allowed her to pose nude for a magazine and play a child prostitute.

The 57-year-old discussed her childhood and mother Teri Shields, who died in 2012, during a recent interview with The Sunday Times. During the conversation, she was asked about an upcoming clip in her new documentary, where she talked to her daughters, Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16, about her 1978 film Pretty Baby, in which she played a child prostitute.

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