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Brooke Shields: Reclaiming Power and Confidence in Midlife
Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today, Shields faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a “woman of a certain age.”
And yet, at fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin and more empowered, confident, and free than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Klein ads. In Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she flips the script on what it means for a woman to grow older. This is an era, insists Shields, when women are reclaiming agency and power in the prime of their lives, not receding into the shadows. Weaving together her own experiences with research and reporting, Shields takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias to spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.
Shields is the author of Down Came the Rain and There Was a Little Girl and was the subject of the 2023 Hulu documentary, Pretty Baby.
Shields will be in conversation with Dr. Sharon Malone, an OB/GYN, Certified Menopause Practitioner, Chief Medical Advisor at Alloy Women’s Health which focuses on women over 40, and the author of the New York Times bestseller, Grown Woman Talk.
