How young is too young to be introduced to Hollywood? This question didn't seem to trouble Brooke Shields' mother, Teri Shields, who started her daughter off as a model when she was only 11 months old. Shields' parents divorced when Brooke was 5 months old, and her mother was, in many ways, the ultimate stage mother. "I just knew she'd be a star," Teri once said (via CNN).
Brooke's first modeling gig was in an ad for Ivory soap. "As the story goes, they interviewed hundreds of babies and the client didn't like any," Shields told The New Yorker. "I don't know how that's possible." Apparently, the photographer, Francesco Scavullo, was friends with Teri, and he asked her if Brooke would be the model.
For Brooke, this very early start in the industry meant that she never knew any other way of life. "I never knew anything different," she said. "I've seen actors go from anonymity to fame overnight, and the shock to their system is what undoes them — whereas I only knew working, and I only knew school and jobs."
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