How a Model Was Betrayed By Her Own Mother — Brooke Shields

This video tells the story of Brooke Shields, the most famous girl in America, whose career was decided for her before she could speak. Her first modeling job came at eleven months old, and her mother, a former model who struggled with alcohol, managed every decision that followed. Before Brooke was a teenager, her mother had signed away the rights to photographs Brooke would spend years trying to stop. At fifteen she was the face of Calvin Klein jeans, and the whole country had opinions about her. When she took the photographer to court, she lost, because her mother's signature outweighed her own objection. Then, after graduating from Princeton, a man invited her to discuss a movie role and attacked her in his hotel room, and she kept that secret for more than thirty years. This is the story of a daughter who loved her mother, protected her, and was betrayed by the decisions made in her name.