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Brooke Shields: 'I posed naked at 10, now I’m telling my story'

By Hadley Freeman
The Times·
18 mins to read

She was married to Andre Agassi and best friends with Michael Jackson. Now 57, the actress tells Hadley Freeman how she escaped the alcoholic mother who turned her into a child star.

There is a moment towards the end of Brooke Shields’ new documentary about her extraordinary life, titled Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, where you can see her defences come crashing down. It doesn’t happen when she’s talking about the time her mother, Teri, agreed for her to pose fully

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