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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘Pretty Baby’: Brooke Shields recalls her bizarre childhood in a sometimes jarring documentary

In a photo seen in the “Pretty Baby” documentary, a young Brooke Shields waits on the set of a shampoo commercial in 1980. (ABC News Studios)

“I thought of myself as … the workhorse. They paid me, I did the thing, they sold it, everybody was happy. It was transactional.” – A teary-eyed Brooke Shields in the “Pretty Baby” documentary.

Brooke Shields didn’t ask for any of this.

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