Brooke Shields

Sitting with “The Howard Stern Show” Tuesday, the icon reflected on her notorious lawsuit against photographer Garry Gross.

“I gutted her office, I took everything overnight, and it was a very difficult thing for her to witness happening.” “I had tried doing it systematic desensitization but it wasn’t going to work with her, nothing was ever not extreme with her. “She had this like crazy justification for things,” the actress said of her mother putting her in nude photoshoots at a young age.

The acclaimed doc, 'Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields,' is a complicated portrait not just of a pretty face but of a deeply resilient spirit.

Now, Shields clearly has agency, a gift the camera gives her when it allows her to tell her story the way she wants to by seemingly driving the conversations viewers see in “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.” Yet it might also be the most beautiful thing about “Pretty Baby.” Just as Wilson once gave Taylor Swift the narrative control she lacked when a constant storm of tabloid coverage was buffeting her life, here she allows Shields a space that feels safe enough for her to speak up about tense moments that the world has seen her smile through for decades. “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” ultimately succeeds because it appears to do something few, if any, of Shields’ past projects have: it lets her present herself the way she wants to be presented. Shields doesn’t name her attacker but relays the story in the present day in one of the straight-to-camera interviews that shapes the story. Everyone knew it at the time, from her mother and manager, Teri Shields, to the grown men who were eager to get her nude in front of a camera from the age of ten to the legions of fans who felt a sense of ownership over her body. In fact, the documentary takes on the structure of a tell-all memoir, complete with stray anecdotes about everyone from Michael Jackson (she says they were friends, but not dating despite what he told Oprah) to Tom Cruise (he got bizarrely, publicly mad at her for taking an antidepressant).

As a recipient of Cruise cakes myself, I can only imagine the pain of going without one. But perhaps there is a way to keep the gifts going ...

Nothing would make me happier than if, this December, Tom Cruise took one of my cakes and used it as a gift to Brooke Shields. However, if this does happen, it is very important to note that Brooke Shields should then send me a cake of her choosing as a thank you gift. [I’ve gone on](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/apr/20/the-secret-to-being-tom-cruise-three-days-of-chocolate-cake) [about the cakes](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/15/tom-cruise-decadent-cake-christmas-a-list-friends) [far too much lately](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/15/i-challenged-tom-cruise-to-send-me-two-of-his-special-cakes-for-christmas-did-he-deliver-of-course-he-did), but for the uninitiated: every December, Tom Cruise buys hundreds of $126 (£101) white chocolate coconut cakes from Doan’s Bakery in California, packages them up with a note and a Christmas tree decoration, and sends them to his nearest and dearest. Tom Cruise giveth, and he taketh away, and we are not to question his whims. However, this whole affair does offer some important lessons when it comes to receiving cakes from Tom Cruise at Christmas. “Tom, I need to be back on the cake list.” You should never expect a Tom Cruise cake, and you should certainly never feel entitled to one. And when Cruise was asked about Shields’s antidepressant use on The Today Show, he jumped in a little too aggressively. However, this was in the midst of Cruise’s big career wobble where – possibly thanks to bad advice – he started jumping on couches and oversharing about Scientology, until he was effectively Journalists who [kept asking Tom Cruise for a cake](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/20/top-gun-maverick-mission-impossible-red-carpet-tom-cruise-cake) as a way to bulk out their word count two years ago. Shields is extremely open throughout the documentary, discussing Hollywood, her sexual assault, her mother’s addiction struggles, her friendship with Michael Jackson and even how she lost her virginity to Dean Cain at the age of 22. [this publication’s unofficial Tom Cruise Christmas cake correspondent](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/13/top-bundt-how-i-made-tom-cruise-christmas-cake-list-for-the-second-year-running).

Brooke Shields on miscarrying and losing friend to suicide: 'You just don't recover'. The actor opens up about aging, facing her mortality and the "scar tissue" ...

with Brooke Shields," a series that explores how people endure tough times and come out on the other side. "I never thought about mortality," she says. And, eventually, Shields was able to get through "a whole day without crying." By the time she was a teen, Shields was circulating among the Hollywood elite and dealing with issues at home. “What makes one person get up and just forge ahead? I was like, 'Oh, this is what real loss is." “She said the kiss of death, which is, ‘Fine, I’ll go, but I’m going for you, not me.’” Shields made an early start in the entertainment business, appearing in an Ivory Soap ad at just 11 years old. "We're not 20. We've got one foot in the grave or we're over-the-hill, or we're not viable anymore," Shields says. "We're not marketed to. “Look at what you’ve survived just by being this age.

Brooke Shields revealed she no longer receives a Christmas cake from Tom Cruise after a "good 10-year run," noting he also cut daughter Suri from his card.

And then the cake stopped.” “Then it went from just Tom for a while, but not every holiday. “It was from them and Suri [at first], so it was the three of them, and then soon it was no Suri and no Katie and just Tom,” she explained.

Brooke, 57, was painstakingly honest about her journey in the Hulu doc, called Pretty Baby, which premiered on April 3 - and her daughter Grier was ...

I went down in the elevator, and I got my own cab. I just cried all the way to my friend's apartment.' But now I can look at that little girl and think, "She did it, she pulled through." 'God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. 'I had to contend with so much at such an early age, and there was resilience, but also I put on blinders as a defense mechanism. I just absolutely froze. I didn't. She said, "I hate seeing bad things happen to you." I don't know,' she added. In the documentary, Brooke said she was sexualized from a young age and slammed her alcoholic mother, Teri, for allowing her to be put in so many inappropriate situations She famously played a sex worker in the 1978 movie Pretty Baby when she was just 11 (seen), and she had to kiss her costar, Keith Carradine, then 27, for one scene of the flick But in the documentary, Brooke said she was sexualized from a young age and slammed her mother, Teri, for

Actress and model Brooke Shields has admitted she was 'naive' for not finding her Calvin Klein adverts 'sexual' when she starred in them aged 15.

“I was deemed inappropriate, and [the Calvin ad] was just pornography and how can I talk about something coming between me and my Calvin’s? Like the phrase — that was a phrase I used all the time about my dog... [Brooke has also broken down in tears when she recalled working on the film Pretty Baby](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/brooke-shields-forced-kiss-27-29552566) where she had to seductively kiss her 27-year-old co-star Keith Carradine. [in her new Hulu documentary](https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/us-celebrity-news/wildest-revelations-brooke-shields-documentary-29632800), she admits she was "naïve" for ignoring the sexual nature of the ads. “There was nothing in me that ever had the idea it was sexual,” she admitted of the ads, before adding, “That’s slightly naïve.” [Brooke Shields](https://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/brooke-shields) has admitted she was "naïve" for thinking the Calvin Klein adverts she did when she was 15 weren't "sexual".

Despite their 2005 feud, Shields and Cruise remained close enough that she was on his holiday cake list -- until she wasn't.

[back on the list](https://people.com/food/brooke-shields-wonders-why-shes-off-tom-cruises-coconut-cake-gift-list/). “I want to get back on that cake list. “I was on the list for a while. [Tom Cruise’s holiday cake](https://uproxx.com/movies/tom-cruise-holidays-coconut-cake/) is the stuff of legends in Hollywood. That closeness led to Shields landing a spot on the coveted cake list, but one day, she was removed and she has no idea why. However, the two actually remained close despite Shields pushing back in a [New York Times op-ed](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/war-of-words.html).

Brooke Shields says Tom Cruise suddenly stopped sending her his famous coconut cake every Christmas. The 'Blue Lagoon' actress, 57, used to among the list ...

Brooke Shields is missing Tom Cruise's famous coconut Christmas cake. Every holiday season, Cruise sends his showbiz pals the yummy $126 bundt cake made by ...

“Tom, I need to be back on the cake list.” “I want to get back on that cake list. I had a good 10-year run, and I got the coconut cake every year, which I was very happy [about].”

Actress Brooke Shields had to learn 'how to protect herself' from her mother Teri Shields, who struggled with alcoholism and often came home in a drunken ...

And when she was not in a good way it was duck and cover," she said in the two-part documentary. "You never know what to expect with an alcoholic," Brooke said. Elsewhere, she said her mother had failed to protect her when she was forced to kiss her 27-year-old co-star when she was just 11 years old. In the documentary, Brooke also admitted she was forced to stage an intervention when she was 13 and managed to find a rehab facility close to their home. [Actress Laura Linney](https://www.irishmirror.ie/all-about/laura-linney) was a childhood friend of Brooke's and said they would have to "duck and cover" whenever Teri came home in a drunken rage. The actress was forced to learn "how to protect herself" from her mother, Teri Shields, and would often "duck and cover" when Teri came home in a drunken rage.

Following "a good 10-year run," the actress told People that Cruise abruptly, inexplicably stopped gifting her his signature Christmas treat. What happened?

[added](https://people.com/celebrity/tom-cruise-blasts-brooke-shieldss-advice/). Rosie O’Donnell, too, [took to Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CXPF6IJBe3e/) to boast about her bundt last December. [an interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woGI0u0VC4w) last year. [50% off + 20% off Coupon](https://www.amazon.com/Outdoor-Tuffenough-Security-Control-Waterproof/dp/B09F3DJNGF?asc_campaign=InlineMobile&asc_refurl=https://jezebel.com/brooke-shields-would-like-tom-cruise-to-please-resume-s-1850302825&asc_source=&tag=kinjajezebelpromo-20) Frankly, I don’t blame them—it [looks great](https://www.goldbelly.com/doans-bakery/white-chocolate-coconut-bundt-cake?ref=merchant). [publicly chastised](https://decider.com/2023/01/23/brooke-shields-tom-cruise-antidepressants-pretty-baby/) her for taking anti-depressants after experiencing postpartum depression following the birth of her first daughter: “When someone says (medication) has helped them, it is to cope, it didn’t cure anything. “I want to get back on that cake list. [Suri](https://people.com/parents/all-about-katie-holmes-daughter-suri-cruise/) and no Katie and just Tom,” she recalled. In case you don’t remember, Shields responded with a [searing essay](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/opinion/war-of-words.html) in the New York Times, and it appeared the pair had moved on. [saving cinema](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/steven-spielberg-tells-tom-cruise-saved-hollywood-top-gun-maverick-1235522763/) with [bloated, albeit enjoyable](https://jezebel.com/top-gun-maverick-is-shockingly-good-1849024256), action movies, or maybe that he’d finally spent too much on Scientology dues and had no choice but to cut back on costs a little. “I was on the list for a while,” Shields said. And none for Brooke Shields, bye!

Brooke Shields says Tom Cruise suddenly stopped sending her his famous coconut cake every Christmas. The 'Blue Lagoon' actress, 57, used to among the list ...

Brooke Shields declined "less than chivalrous" John F. Kennedy Jr.'s sexual advances on their one and only date, she said on the "Howard Stern Show."

Brooke Shields, 57, recalled details of her romantic encounter with the late heartthrob during an interview with Howard Stern on Tuesday, ...

Brooke Shields says Tom Cruise suddenly stopped sending her his famous coconut cake every Christmas. The 'Blue Lagoon' actress, 57, used to among the list ...

Brooke Shields said she wants to get back on Tom Cruise's famous holiday “cake list." For years, Cruise has sent a coconut Bundt cake to his A-list friends.

Brooke Shields is a well-known name in the entertainment industry, having started her career as a child model at the tender age of 11 months.

Tom Cruise has stopped sending Brooke Shields a cake each Christmas — but she doesn't know “what happened”.

Brooke Shields has gone into more detail about her traumatic upbringing, saying she was left “broken” trying to keep her alcoholic mum Teri Shields alive.

Brooke Shields remembers refusing to sleep with John F. Kennedy Jr, after the pair went on a date in Aspen.