00:01How do you feel about all this fuss that's being made over you?
00:03I think it's kind of fun.
00:05You really are an exquisite-looking young lady.
00:07I know you've been told that, but isn't she a pretty, pretty girl?
00:10The entirety of my life, it was...
00:15She's a pretty face.
00:18Over and over and over and over and over again.
00:20And that always just seared me.
00:25You just didn't go anywhere that somebody wouldn't know Brooke Shields.
00:29The most photographed woman in the world.
00:31Iconic American beauty.
00:33Object of desire.
00:35A sexualized child model.
00:37Exploitation.
00:38Vulnerable.
00:39I was on the cover of Time magazine as the face of that whole era.
00:45Who decides that?
00:48She was catapulted into the world of adult sexuality.
00:52I just always remember thinking, like, I hope she's okay.
00:54She was a young girl in an all-adult world.
00:58I'm amazed that I survived any of it.
01:04Gatekeeping is a major way of how we keep girls under control.
01:07It's very much about what women need to do in order to be desirable to straight men.
01:12One of the responses to feminism was the sexualization of little girls.
01:17You're not going to be traditionally feminine.
01:20We'll replace you with little girls.
01:25I was struggling to find my own voice.
01:28I wasn't told it was important to have agency.
01:32I found my confidence and thought, I can have my own opinion.
01:37Oh, hell no. You're not taking this away from me.
01:40I love Brooke's tone about it.
01:43We're moving forward in life.
01:46When someone like Brooke Shields talks about it, it makes a difference.
01:53Young people are just working so hard to live up to these unattainable standards.
01:57Long before they can process it.
01:59How do you fight a toxic cultural environment?
02:02I think everybody has a little, like, Brooke Shields narrative stuck in them.
02:08Because what happened to her isn't really about her as an individual.
02:11It's just about women.
02:13I was just born with this faith.
02:14I wanted to think about the things that could have happened without beauty.
02:21Now, it's like, I'm allowed to be a human being.
02:24I'm just a good fit today.
02:26A human being.
02:27A human being.
02:28A human being.
02:31A human being.
02:33A human being.
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