Brooke Shields is dishing details from an upcoming as-yet-untitled book about her relationship with her controversial late mother Teri, who was perhaps the world’s most famous “momager.”
“The reason I wanted to write the book is not to say: ‘You didn’t understand: She was the best mother in the world,’” Shields reveals in Social Life magazine. “I’m not holding her up on a pedestal, nor am I painting her as a villain or a victim.”
Teri courted controversy beginning when Shields was cast at 12 as a prostitute in the 1978 film “Pretty Baby,” and a series of sexual Calvin Klein jeans ads at 14 that catapulted Shields’ career.
But Shields tells Social Life’s Devorah Rose of criticism about her mom, “You know what’s so funny about a lot of the things that they were pushing back on her for? Those things were the least of my worries. I was exploited? I was in school full time…Seriously, the opportunities I had…I wasn’t worried about what they were saying.”
She adds of her mom’s parenting: “We would go to Studio 54 together, but I would be home by 11.”