We haven’t talked about Brooke Shields in nearly a year. Back in June 2025, Brooke appeared on India Hicks’ podcast, and Brooke told a bizarre and untruthful story about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex. Brooke and Meghan appeared on the same 2024 SXSW International Women’s Day panel discussion, and in the 2025 podcast, Brooke claimed that she interrupted Meghan because Meghan was being “too precious.” When people pulled out the receipts (i.e. the actual SXSW video), India Hicks ended up removing the podcast. Brooke never apologized for lying about Meghan or mocking her.

Well, these days, Brooke is promoting her latest project, an Acorn TV series called You’re Killing Me. She plays a bestselling crime novelist who solves crimes with a young protege. Brooke recently chatted with People Magazine and the LA Times about intimacy coaches, her 60s and whether she’d ever go under the knife. But no mention of the horses-t from last year!

How the industry has changed re: sex scenes: “Now they have intimacy coaches and they tape stuff. I mean they did tape stuff to me when I was younger and I had body doubles so that was very different for me. And now I want a body double and they won’t give it to me! So they’re equally ridiculous. There’s a hundred people standing around you. I think I’m probably more self conscious now than I was when I was younger because things need to be lifted so I’ve got to have a pulley system to lift ‘the girls’ up.”

She collaborated on a glassware line: She also collaborated on a line of “beautiful Venetian Murano glassware with a friend, Alvin Orsini who has a glassware company, Orsini Venetian Glassworks,” she says. “I’m saying yes to things like that this year.” Their upcoming capsule collection is called La Tavola Eterna (The Eternal Table).

She loves her 60s: “If I want to do something for myself I can just do it. Commence [her haircare line for women over 40] has probably been the most profound work related experience. I’ve learned that my passion and commitment to something, is unstoppable.”

A beauty icon: “For me, beauty meant being smart and being strong but I acknowledge that there are changes. I fully understand that beauty is so much more than just not having wrinkles. Listen, I work out, I get face peels, I mean I haven’t gone under the knife. It seems tempting but I’m too scared!”

Having an empty nest & a zest for life: “Part of it’s terrifying, and part of it is like, “Let me out!” It’s basically uncharted territory. We’re not taught this as women. We’re not taught it culturally. We’re not taught it historically. … Women are much more formidable than people give them credit for in this age. You have to go through all the stages of it. I mean, I thought my world had just fell out from underneath me when my second daughter left. Then there’s a freedom in it. I started my own company, Commence, about that — about empowering women, to say: You’ve done the kids, you’ve had the career, what do you want now? There’s no rules. It’s scary.”

What fame was like in the 1980s & 1990s: “I buried my head in the sand for a really long time, and it wasn’t until the documentary that I looked back at the insanity of it. I was able to compartmentalize enough to not have it eat away at me — this feeling of, like, going to the Cannes Film Festival and having people try to cut your hair off and the frenzy of it. And because my mom kept me in the public eye for a very specific reason, but my private life was in school and with friends, and to this day, I have very few friends who are even in the entertainment industry. It was a level of infamy. It was a crazed type of infatuation with stardom, not generated from me, but at me. In my mind, it was ridiculous, because I didn’t understand the value of it. I still don’t really see the value of it, unless it’s used for good, or maybe even getting a table at a restaurant. But it always intellectually and psychologically felt it had nothing to do with the actual work. I think that’s the same today, but now, the word “influencer,” like, what? I probably was that when I was 6. How could I be on the cover of Time magazine as a face of an entire decade? To me, it’s funny to look back at, but I’ve never really placed too much actual value on it.”

[From People & The LA Times]

It’s genuinely crazy that Brooke came out of her childhood and young-adulthood as any kind of functional person. Her mother was batsh-t crazy, and every parent could and should wince at what Brooke went through at such a young age. All of that did warp her though, but you can only see it in subtle ways, like the way she talks about ageing and the way she basically rolls her eyes at the idea that adults choose to seek the limelight or want some level of social-media notoriety. It’s continuously fascinating to watch actors of a certain age grapple with the new dynamics of fame, celebrity and social media. Most of them don’t get it at all.

Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.