At 57, Brooke Shields Reveals Her Daughters Helped Her ‘Embrace’ Her Own Body Image
Brooke Shields says her daughters Rowan Francis and Grier Hammon inspired her to have better body confidence.
The 57-year-old said her daughters have great body image and are incredibly mature compared to where she was at their age.
The model said her daughters’ encouragement to embrace her curves has been “incredibly impacting.”
Actress and model Brooke Shields has a healthy diet and fitness routine that keeps her in tip-top shape, but she hasn’t always been the body-confident woman we know today. In a recent interview, the 57-year-old admitted that she has her daughters to thank for her improved body image over the years.
In a conversation with Access Hollywood, she opened up about how her daughters, Rowan Francis, 19, and Grier Hammon, 16, are incredibly confident and have inspired her to look at her body differently. “Their body image is so much better,” Shields said in the interview. “I mean, they love it and move it and tell you to look at it and all the movements and the clothing, which I can’t even really call clothing.”
The Blue Lagoon star then admitted that she didn’t feel this way in her teenage years—her daughters encouraged her to think about her body differently. “They, in reverse, helped me have [better body image] because I would…I was the hiding one and you know, back out of rooms and just don’t show your curves and it was such a weird thing because my daughters would actually say to me, ‘Mom, you’ve got a body you should just embrace it.’”
Shields added that watching her daughters be so comfortable in their own skin has made a major difference in her own life. “When your daughter teaches you something like that, and when you’ve been in an industry that I’ve been in forever it really, it just really is unbelievably impacting,” she said.
The model also added that now that her daughters have grown older, she’s impressed by how much confidence they have in themselves as individuals, too. She noted that in her own youth, she tended to simply agree with everything her own mother said and did because she was “such a force,” but her girls stand strong in their own right.
“They’re so much more mature than I ever was and they’re so much more confident than I ever was. I didn’t learn really who I was until I was in, probably in my 40s,” she said.
And as Shields has recently refocused her work to combat ageism and promote self-love for aging women, she opened up about feeling better about herself now more than ever. “I’m so grateful that my body has taken care of me this long,” she said. “It’s given me children, it’s healed from various accidents and surgeries, and I just feel, I think that we talk about that. I feel better in my 50s than I ever did prior.”
We love this era of self-appreciation for Shields, and can’t wait to see what’s ahead for the star!
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