Wild revelations from Brooke Shields doc - Tom Cruise row to Superman sex claims
Brooke Shields has been one of the biggest names in Hollywood since she was a child, having started her career when she was just 11 months old.
The actress rose to prominence at the age of 11 when she was cast as a child prostitute in Pretty Baby and she's been involved in plenty of drama and heartbreak over the years.
Now, aged 57, she's sharing the secrets of her life and career in a brand new Hulu documentary.
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields will invite fans behind-the-scenes of Brooke's life as she opens up about being sexualised as a child, hiding from her mother's alcoholism and losing her virginity to Superman.
Here, we take a look at some of the biggest revelations from the documentary.
Brooke Shields tells of rape for the first time in Pretty Baby documentary
Sexualised as a child
Brooke Shields opens up about her life and career in her new documentary (Hulu)Brooke rose to stardom with the 1978 film Pretty Baby in which she played a 12-year-old prostitute.
The actress broke down in tears in her new documentary as she recalled the moment she was forced to seductively kiss her 27-year-old co-star Keith Carradine.
Brooke also had to appear naked on screen. She was just 11 years old.
Teri offered no help to her daughter and it was left to Keith to try and reassure her that it was "all make-believe".
Brooke now finds it difficult to think about the incident and said she wouldn't have allowed the same thing to happen to her daughters - Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16.
She was only 11 years old when she featured in Pretty Baby (Getty Images)In her documentary, she said she doesn't understand why her mother didn't help her when filming the kissing scene and claims director Louis Malle snapped at her for making a repulsed face.
Her co-star Keith tried to reassure her, saying the kiss "doesn't count. It's pretend. It's all make-believe".
Rowan says she will never watch the movie and exclaimed: "It's child pornography," before asking her mother: "Would you have let us [do that] at the age of 11?"
"No," Brooke replied instinctively before her shoulders collapsed.
Battling her mother's alcoholism
Brooke had to deal with Teri's alcoholism (Getty Images)Brooke said her mother's struggles with alcoholism made her emotionally abusive.
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"You never know what to expect with an alcoholic," she said. "It wasn't abusive, but it was emotionally abusive because I felt sort of abandoned every time she wasn't herself."
She was forced to stage an intervention when she was 13 and managed to find a rehab facility close to their home.
Teri agreed to stop drinking, but Brooke said it didn't last much longer than a few weeks.
Actress 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.
"When Teri was sober she was raucous and fun and loud and big and took up space. And when she was not in a good way it was duck and cover," she said.
Laura added that Brooke had learned how to "protect herself" from her mother's drinking.
Losing her virginity
Brooke lost her virginity to actor Dean Cain (Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)
Dean is well-known for his role as Superman (Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty Images)Brooke lost her virginity at the age of 22 to Superman star Dean Cain.
She's now admitted she felt "regret" about how she first had sex and said she "immediately ran out of the room butt naked".
Brooke and Dean, 56, dated when they were both students at Princeton University, with Brooke saying she was more interested in the "love and commitment" side of their relationship.
Speaking in her Hulu documentary, Brooke said: "When we finally had sex, I immediately ran out of the room, ran down the hall butt naked, just running. I didn't know where I was going.
"He ran after me with the duvet and grabbed a hold of me and said, 'Where are you going?'
"He said, 'I'm not going anywhere, I'm not leaving you, you're the same person.' He got it immediately and I just cried.
"I wanted to jump into the personal relationship and the love and the commitment. We had to teach each other about each other."
The actress explained how she had been confused by her reaction to sex at the time, saying: "I feel bad for that girl."
"She was old enough to own her own body for real. And just I couldn't get there at that moment."
Tom Cruise feud
The actress has been open about her use of antidepressants (Hulu)The Endless Love star struggled with postnatal depression and had to take anti-depressants following the birth of her daughter Rowan.
Brooke has described it as falling into a "deep depression".
She soon become embroiled in a very public feud with Rom Cruise after opening up about her struggles in 2005, with Tom accusing her of spreading "irresponsible misinformation".
During a heated Today Show interview, 60-year-old Tom decided it was his duty as a Scientologist who rejects psychiatry to criticise her medication choices.
"The thing that I'm saying about Brooke is that there's misinformation," he told then-host Matt Lauer. "She doesn't understand the history of psychiatry."
Tom Cruise criticised her decision to take antidepressants (Getty)When Matt challenged him on the issue, Tom controversially responded: "I disagree with it. She doesn't know what these drugs are, and for her to promote it is irresponsible."
Brooke was in Chicago at the time and her husband Chris Henchy called to tell her what had happened.
In her documentary, the actress recalled how her husband urged her to respond, so she said Tom should "stick to fighting aliens" and later wrote an op-ed in The New York Times defending medication.
In the piece, Brooke said Tom's comments were a "disservice to mothers everywhere".
The Top Gun star later apologised.
Infamous Calvin Klein commercial
Brooke has modelled for the brand on a number of occasions (Jordache/ MEGA)"There was nothing in me that ever had the idea that it was sexual," Brooke said as she opened up about the TV adverts she filmed for Calvin Klein.
The commercials were subsequently banned from being shown on CBS and ABC as they were considered to be too sexual.
In the ads, Brooke famously said "nothing comes between me and my Calvins."
Defending her choice in her documentary, the actress said: "I jumped at the chance because it was acting. It was just an exercise in memorisation, in literary reference, and I had to be smart to do it."
Michael Jackson friendship
Brooke was friends with Michael Jackson (Getty Images)"It was very child-like," Brooke said as she opened up about her friendship with Michael Jackson, which began when she was 13 and he was 20.
She added: "We both were quite juvenile in some ways and quite mature and experienced in others, so we were just really friends but he always wanted to be seen with me."
At one point, Michael even suggested they should "adopt a child and raise a child together".
However, Brooke said she lost touch with the musician after feeling hurt when he lied and told Oprah Winfrey in a live television interview in 1993 that they were dating.
Raped by a Hollywood executive
Brooke said she was raped by an unnamed man (Getty Images for Vanity Fair)
She said they met up after she struggled to find work (Getty Images)The 57-year-old actress revealed she was raped in a hotel room by an unnamed man in the film industry while in her early 20s.
She said she struggled to find acting work after graduating from Princeton University in 1987 and so jumped at the chance to discuss a new movie role when an acquaintance from the industry asked her to dinner.
"I thought it was a work meeting," Brooke said in the documentary. "I had met this person before and he was always nice to me."
But as they tucked into their meal, the young star noticed "his behaviour was changing and there was no talk about the movie".
After dinner, the man insisted she call a taxi from his hotel room, which he then left.
When he returned, the man was naked and threw himself on her.
"He was right on me. It was just like wrestling," she said breaking down in tears in the documentary.
"I was afraid I would get choked out or something, I didn't know. I played the scene out in my head, so I didn't fight that much. ... I just absolutely froze. I just thought, 'Stay alive and get out.'
"I just shut it out. God knows I knew how to be disassociated from my body. I’d practised that."
Brooke doesn't name her alleged attacker in the documentary.
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