Mannequin and actress Brooke Shields has opened up about what it was prefer to as soon as be the “most well-known virgin on the earth”, and the “creepy” conditions she was pressured into as a young person.
Talking on her iHeartRadio podcast, Now What? with Brooke Shields, Shields, 57, admitted to her good friend Ali Wentworth she regrets being so open about her virginity.
“I imply, I feel it was, in hindsight, a little bit of a mistake for me to be so open about my virginity as a result of it by no means left me alone,” she defined.
Hearken to a snippet from Brooke Shields’ podcast episode above.
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Shields mentioned she had made the choice to speak about virginity in a 1985 ebook that, though it was credited to her, was truly written by another person.
Consequently, Shields mentioned she quickly grew to become “probably the most well-known virgin on the earth”.
The ebook, titled On Your Personal was meant to assist new school college students who had been leaving house and adjusting to younger grownup life. It was launched when the younger actress began as a pupil at Princeton College.
“In it, there was one a part of a chapter, the place I talk about – not abstinence per se – however proudly owning your alternative,” she defined.
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“I might get a number of fan mail from children saying, ‘Oh, my boyfriend’s pressuring me, and I do not wish to have intercourse. What do I do? My narrative was, ‘You do not have to do something you do not wish to.'”
She revealed that whereas the subject of virginity was solely a small a part of the ebook, it instantly grew to become “probably the most talked about” factor within the media.
She was then pressured into “creepy” conditions the place she had to discuss her virginity to “outdated” male interviewers, which was uncomfortable for her.
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“There was one thing to be within the line of fireplace, at such a younger age, in that approach. I gained a resilience. It did type of set me as much as be prepared for something,” Shields revealed.
She went on to say that she truly regrets ready till she was 22 to have intercourse, admitting she seems like she missed out on experiencing the “pleasure” of sharing that with a accomplice when she was younger.
“I’ve remorse round [waiting], as a result of there was a way of pleasure and freedom that I ought to have been in a position to really feel inside a relationship that was so pretty and so stunning and candy,” she added.
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