Brooke Shieldsis teaching body positivity.
Speaking with PEOPLE at theGlamourWomen of the Year Awardson Nov. 11 in New York City, the legendary supermodel and actress opened up about navigating body image conversations with her daughtersRowan Francis, 16, andGrier Hammond, 13 (who she shares withhusband Chris Henchy).
The former Calvin Klein ad campaign staralso said she wants her daughters to stand up for themselves and forget about pleasing the people around them.
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Brooke Shields with daughter Grier.Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images
“I learned to say ‘no’ this year and it came through me saying to my daughters, ‘This does not have to be your problem. You don’t have to take care of everybody all the time’.” she explained. “You try to teach them to take the high road but at times, you have to say, ‘That did not make me feel good. I didn’t appreciate it. I’m not going to succumb to that level’.”
Speaking withPorterlast year, Shields said her daughters are “confident” and “well-adjusted.”
“[My daughters] are so much more mature than I was, so much more confident in their own bodies,” the star told the outlet. “They have the same stubbornness and strength that I do, but are more well-adjusted. I am jealous as all hell about that. But, of course, I created it.”
Throughout her career, Shields has been open about the severe body image issues that plagued her growing up in the public eye and the impact of being sexualized at such a young age.
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“I had a very strong disconnect to my body,” the actress toldYahoo Lifestylein September. “I was the face on the covers, I was the eyebrows or the face or whatever the thing was that people and the press and everybody focused on. And because I was never really skinny, I never did runway. So I was always the one that was doing the magazines but often never fit into the samples.”
“I’m trying to present to [my daughters] the image of a whole woman, which was very different from the way I grew up,” Shields told the outlet. “I don’t want them to have any of that shame but I want them to maintain a sense that their body is their body, it’s their own.”
source: people.com
