Entertainment Weekly - USA - The other day
Brooke Shields was going through some old photos when one shot caught her eye. ''I just found this picture of me with
Johnny Rotten,'' she says, laughing at the thought of hanging around with the Sex Pistols frontman. ''I'm on his shoulder. I have this little short hair. I'm like, Who am I?''
As the baby model-turned-teen sexpot-- turned-comedic actress-turned-author-turned-she who put
Tom Cruise in his place walks into a café in downtown Manhattan, it's impossible not to know who she is. In fact, everyone in the room seems to relate to the six-foot-tall brunette all bundled in black. That little girl drinking hot chocolate probably knows her as
Hannah Montana's deceased mom. That older guy with a smirk? Maybe nothing comes between him and his memory of Shields' iconic
Calvin Klein jeans ads. Perhaps that woman over there found comfort in Along Came the Rain, Shields' brutally honest memoir about postpartum depression. Or maybe she's excited about the Feb. 7 premiere of Lipstick Jungle, NBC's drama about a trio of female friends doing that proverbial work-and-life juggling act, in which Shields plays Wendy, a married movie-studio exec. (See the EW review of Lipstick Jungle.)
But just when you think you know everything there is to know about Shields — she's been around for 42 years, after all — she continues to surprise. For someone who grew up in front of cameras (she began modeling at 11 months old), she's refreshingly unpolished. Other than her marriage to TV producer
Chris Henchy, Shields doesn't lead a Hollywood existence. Her closest friends aren't actors. She readily admits to doing endorsements to pay the bills. The word craft never passes her lips. ''It's funny, I don't lead a controversial life at all,'' she says. ''And yet, my career has been so fraught with controversy.''
