Brooke Shields made an appearance at Disney’s FYC (For Your Consideration) event on Thursday to talk about her Hulu documentary Pretty Baby.
The Blue Lagoon actress – who recently celebrated turning 58 – looked elegant in a black jumpsuit featuring cropped, ankle-length pants.
She paired the strapless jumpsuit with a fitted black jacket and black and white slingback heels.
The Endless Love star wore her signature long brown hair in loose waves.
The FYC events are put on by studios to promote their shows for Emmy consideration.
FYC Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields made an appearance at Disney’s FYC (For Your Consideration) event on Thursday to talk about her Hulu documentary Pretty Baby
Endless Love: The Blue Lagoon actress looked elegant in a black jumpsuit featuring cropped, ankle-length pants
On stage: She paired the strapless jumpsuit with a fitted black jacket and black and white slingback heels
The two-part documentary Pretty Baby premiered on April 3 on Hulu.
Directed by Lana Wilson, the documentary took its name from Louis Malle’s 1978 film Pretty Baby, a drama about a young sex worker, played by Shields, in New Orleans in 1917.
The film was met with controversy from critics as Shields, who was only 11-years-old when the movie was filmed, appeared nude in several scenes and kissed a then 27-year old Keith Carradine while she was naked.
Pretty Baby wasn’t the first, nor would it be the last time she was sexualized by the media. At 15 she shot Blue Lagoon, then came Endless Love. Both featured sex and nudity. And then there were those Calvin Klein denim ads.
When she was 16 and a global star, a family friend and photographer tried to sell nude photos he took of her when she was only 10. Her mother sued and the family went to court but the photographer won.
Shields, who has written two memoirs, has been approached about documentaries before and always said no.
But now with a kid going in college, and with the encouragement of her friend Ali Wentworth as well as a general good feeling about where she is in life after years of therapy, Shields felt the time was right.
The Suddenly Susan alum’s appearance at the Disney FYC event comes about a week after she opened up about not wanting her daughter Grier, 17, to become a model on Live with Kelly and Mark.
‘I fought it for so long,’ Shields, told the hosts ‘It’s such a different industry now than it was.’
Long locks: The Endless Love star wore her signature long brown hair in loose waves
Red carpet: FYC events are put on by studios to promote their shows for Emmy consideration
Mom of two: The two-part documentary Pretty Baby premiered on April 3 on Hulu. Directed by Lana Wilson, the documentary took its name from Louis Malle’s 1978 film Pretty Baby, a drama about a young sex worker, played by Shields, in New Orleans in 1917
Controversy: The film was met with controversy from critics as Shields, who was only 11-years-old when the movie was filmed, appeared nude in several scenes and kissed a then 27-year old Keith Carradine while she was naked
Scandalized: Pretty Baby wasn’t the first, nor would it be the last time she was sexualized by the media
Blue Lagoon: At 15 she shot Blue Lagoon, then came Endless Love. Both featured sex and nudity. And then there were those Calvin Klein denim ads
She added that Grier had modeled in ‘little things here and there,’ and eventually the mom of two ‘had to give in’ to her daughter’s career wishes, but not without some strict ground rules.
You are going to have a great work ethic, it’s not going to be comfortable, and you’re going to listen to me, those are my rules,’ Brooke said of her rules.
Shields also highlighted that Greer is ‘interested in runway’ something that Brooke herself never did in her modeling days as she primarily focused on print modeling.
The Lipstick Jungle alum also shares another daughter, Rowan, 20, with her husband, film director and screenwriter Chris Henchy.
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