Before she had even hit puberty, Brooke Shields was one of the biggest names in 1980s Hollywood.
At first a child model, her breakout film role was at age 12 when she starred in Pretty Baby as Violet, a child prostitute in 1917 New Orleans.
The film turned Shields into a teenage sex symbol, a representation that led to a number of trials and tribulations over the star's life.
Now she's sharing the truth behind the tabloids in Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, a two-part documentary directed by Lana Wilson, who also helmed Taylor Swift's 2020 documentary Miss Americana.
Here are the key moments.
WARNING: This story includes accounts of sexual assault, which some readers may find distressing.
Becoming a sex symbol as a child
The first thing that's established in the documentary is that Brooke Shields has been stunningly beautiful since she was born.
It's this supernatural beauty that led her mother Teri Shields to push her into modelling at just 11 months' old.
The first half of the documentary is largely dedicated to the horrors Shields endured in Hollywood before she could even drive.
Shields breakout turn was in Pretty Baby at age 11, a role where she was filmed nude twice and at one point, paraded around a stuffy room of men who bid hundreds of dollars for the rights to her virginity.
Her co-star Keith Carradine was 29 years old at the time of filming, with Shields recounting that the adult Carradine was her first kiss.
"Every time Keith tried to do the kiss I would scrunch my face up and [Pretty Baby director] Louis [Malle] would get upset with me," Shields recounts.
"Keith was the one the came up to me and said 'You know what? This doesn't count'."
The seeming exploitation of young Shields through film is repeated twice more in the documentary's first hour.
Once in the film Blue Lagoon, a coming-of-age drama that contains sex scenes with a then-14-year-old Shields.
Then once in Endless Love, a similar film in which director Franco Zeffirelli physically twisted a 16-year-old Shields's toe in order for her to properly imitate sexual ecstasy.
The documentary focuses on these sexualised roles, which were encouraged and supported by Shield's own mother, as well as the media's reaction to them.
Director Wilson pastes magazine covers that crown Shields as the 'World's Youngest Sex Symbol' and 'America's New Sexy Kid Star' in-between her mother deflecting questions regarding Brooke's treatment with statements like, "ever since Brooke was a baby, she's been encouraged to be sensual".
The tightrope of having a mum as a manager
Despite her driving insistence to turn Shields into a star, her mother is treated with a reluctant reverence by the subjects of the documentary.
Teri Shields died in 2012 from complications relating to dementia.
While Shields and Wilson stop short of blaming Teri, there are implicated judgements over the decisions she made for her daughter.
Like in 1975, when Shields's mother allowed her 10-year-old daughter to be photographed nude, wearing make up and covered in oil for Playboy Press publication Sugar 'n' Spice.
This led to a two year litigation process against photographer Garry Gross who claimed to have the rights to the photos and wanted to republish them.
"I was on the stand for two days straight. My public image is what actually was on trial. And then the prick won," Shields says in the documentary.
From hot commodity to the 'oldest virgin'
After graduating high school, Shields was accepted to Princeton University, and she largely shrank out of the limelight for four years, save for the release of her autobiography, On Your Own.
The book contained several pages advising girls how to take agency over their own body – which the media took as her espousing chastity and ran with it.
Again, director Wilson fills the screen with headlines like 'The Oldest Virgin in the Business' and interview clips of old men repeatedly asking 20-year-old Shields about her virginity.
She detailed allegations of sexual assault
Shields says that this public perception change, coupled with her years away at college, resulted in her being rejected from many movie roles.
This led her to taking what she thought was a work meeting with someone offering her a role in a film only to be sexually assaulted in a hotel room.
Shields says the documentary is the first time she's shared her experience and does not name the man involved in the alleged assault.
In the documentary, Shields says she originally blamed herself for the attack.
"There was part of me that felt cool, that maybe this was the validation. He said to me, 'I can trust you and I can't trust other people'," she says.
"I believed I put out that message and that's how that message was received."
Her 'close friendship' with Michael Jackson
Shields touches very briefly on her relationship with late singer Michael Jackson, who she met when she was 13.
"We both were quite juvenile in some ways and very mature in other ways," Shields says.
"At one point he said: 'We should adopt a child and raise it together'."
Despite rumours of the pair dating being confirmed by Jackson in a 1993 interview with Oprah, Shields reiterates in the documentary that the pair were only ever good friends.
Her 'restrictive' relationship with Andre Agassi
Shields credits ex-husband and former world number one tennis player Andre Agassi as the person who finally got her out of her mother's control.
According to her claims in the documentary, Agassi was also restrictive.
Shields shared a story from her guest appearance as an unhinged character in a 1996 episode of the sitcom Friends.
Following her spirited performance, Agassi stormed out of the set.
"He said 'everyone is making fun of me in there, how dare you, you're my girlfriend'," she says.
"He drove home and destroyed every single one of his trophies."
The couple divorced in 1999.
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields is currently streaming on Disney+ in Australia.
