While visiting Drew Barrymore's talk show, Brooke Shields described an interview in which she was prodded for different answers from an unnamed female reporter while she was only 10. Barrymore immediately asked Shields if the reporter was Barbara Walters, long-time ABC correspondent and famously blunt interviewer of the rich and famous — it wasn't, but that prompted Shields to share a different story that did involve Walters.
Shields referenced a 1981 interview with Walters in which the host asked the actress what her measurements were, to which Shields responded with her height and weight. Then, Walters asked Shields to stand up so they could directly compare heights (Shields was 5'10" compared to Walters' 5'5") as her mother watched on. Shields, who was 16 years old at the time, politely obliged Walter's requests (via YouTube).
"I stand up, and she's comparing herself to this little girl, and I thought, 'This isn't right. I don't understand what this is.' But I behaved and smiled and felt like so taken advantage of in so many ways," Shields recalled to Barrymore and co-host Ross Matthews (via People). And Shields was not alone in her discomfort with the prying interviews.
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