[Warning: Potentially Triggering Content]
We’ve at all times considered her as a powerful, profitable girl. But Brooke Shields could genuinely be some of the mistreated stars of all time.
On Monday her Hulu documentary Pretty Baby premieres, and it guarantees to show an entire era for exploiting a really, very younger woman. We’re not simply speaking about movies like The Blue Lagoon, which she appeared in when she was simply 14 years previous (her nude scenes had been simulated by a 30-year-old mannequin — however not her scenes with a totally nude 18-year-old Christopher Atkins). No, this was even earlier than that.
She started as a baby mannequin, and was sexualized principally from soar avenue. It’s actually horrifying.
In anticipation of the doc, which we’re positive can be every kind of upsetting, {a magazine} article resurfaced and has gone viral. The High Times piece is a stunning surviving instance of the disgusting method through which adults talked a few 12-year-old woman.
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In the article, author Ed Dwyer — who apparently nonetheless works as a contract journalist even at present for the likes of Variety and The Saturday Evening Post — describes a preteen Brooke Shields who simply starred within the movie Pretty Baby, the upsetting story of a woman within the 1900s born and raised in a brothel. But moderately than observe her distinctive appearing or realism, the whole piece focuses on how *ick* sizzling she is. We couldn’t make this up. She is described within the profile as:
“million-dollar jailbait”
“a sultry mix of all-American virgin and nascent whore”
“the delicious stuff of teenage fantasies become flesh: barely old enough to want, but too young to get”
“extraordinarily beautiful even as an infant”
“sister, daughter, sex object, victim, lover, tramp”
“a sweet temptation to all but blind men and eunuchs”
“the first serious actress to violate the preteen sex taboo”
“the most perfect nymphette in all creation”
If you’re again from throwing up, you could be questioning the identical factor as us. How is all of 1978 not in jail??
You can see the whole article captured in a viral tweet (beneath):
Documentary on Brooke Shields is popping out quickly on Disney+ and I’ll by no means not be horrified by the best way so many adults sexualised a prepubescent woman. Should all be thrown in jail pic.twitter.com/Qo7z9eGWbi
— S (@carbdiem) March 28, 2023
This man was not run out of the enterprise. The editor of the journal wasn’t fired. If something this was merely a extra frank reflection of how the whole media, the whole world, was treating this little woman. And it’s simply horrifying.