‘The Math Does Not Add Up’

Age has nothing on Brooke Shields.

The mannequin and actress who first rose to fame at age 12 in Fairly Child is now 59, but she nonetheless feels (and, let’s be trustworthy, seems to be) like she is in her mid-30s.

“I really feel 36. There’s no correlation between 36 and 59. The maths doesn’t add up,” she says in an interview with NewBeauty. “Then generally I’m going down the steps, and my knees really feel 59.”

Her latest ebook, due out from Macmillan Publishers in January 2025, is aptly titled Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Previous: Ideas on Getting older as a Girl, and goals to crystallize the icon’s ideas and emotions on rising older, particularly below the general public’s watchful eye.

“Folks repeatedly expressed to me that they by some means need me to nonetheless be the best way I used to be in my teenagers as a result of they’ve imprinted on me in [the films] Blue Lagoon or Infinite Love, [ads for] Calvin Klein or one thing else,” she says. “You meet someone that you simply had [pinned up] in your locker when they’re of their 50s, and it’s a shock to your system.”

However Shields isn’t simply older (not less than in years); she can be wiser. This is the reason she teamed up with GSK’s Thrive@50+ marketing campaign. As a part of the marketing campaign, Shields directed a brief movie that options soccer mother Donna Kelce, actress Gina Torres and actuality TV star Susan Noles, who open up on life after turning the large 5-0, together with their danger for shingles and the significance of getting vaccinated. 

“As a teen, I simply felt invincible,” Shields shares. “I’m extra conscious now of every part from my dangers of shingles, as an example, [brittle bone disease] osteoporosis and all of the issues that you simply don’t actually consider whenever you’re a child.”

Shingles, a viral an infection that causes a painful rash, isn’t horny, however Shields has by no means shied away from speaking about issues that nobody else desires to. She heroically got here ahead to debate postpartum melancholy after she gave beginning to her daughter Rowan, now 21, in 2003. Her different daughter, Grier, is eighteen.

“I by no means got down to be influential,” says the founding father of hair firm Begin and president of the Actors’ Fairness Affiliation. “We shrink back from speaking about issues that make us embarrassed or afraid, however I’m not afraid to share my fears and experiences if that may shed some mild and provides different girls their energy again.”

With age comes energy and hindsight, she says. “Take pleasure in your physique as it’s. Simply after we begin coming into our personal energy as girls, we understand we must always have actually loved what we had after we had it full steam.”

And he or she’s hoping this knowledge rubs off on her two daughters. “My ladies see their mother taking an lively position in her personal well being and dictating the best way she desires her life to go, and I believe that the extra I put out these messages, the extra they’re going to recollect all of this.”

Thriving After 50

None of that is to say that staying in form and sustaining her dewy glow and signature bushy brows isn’t more difficult post-menopause.

“I work out quite a bit,” she says. “I don’t like to, however I really feel so significantly better afterward.”

Since she broke her femur in an accident just a few years again, Shields has develop into a Pilates devotee. “As a dancer, Pilates makes the distinction in strengthening and lengthening.”

She additionally likes to eat and isn’t afraid to personal it. “I like meals. I like actually good meals. I’ll go to Italy and eat pasta completely day by day,” she shares. “I actually attempt now to make a acutely aware effort to restrict alcohol, eat healthfully and get sleep.”

Her selections are extra about being wholesome and feeling good than becoming into her Calvins. “My large factor is I have to be sure that I eat commonly,” she says. “I’ll get too busy and never eat something, after which I really feel sick or dizzy, so I’ve to be sure that I eat protein all through the day.”

Shields has develop into a moisturizer junkie. “I’m completely all the time in want of heavy moisturizer,” she says. “I get dehydrated actually shortly. My scalp has really gotten drier.”

So far as her coveted brows, they’re surprisingly low upkeep. “I simply attempt to take the errant little spider legs away, however I actually don’t do something,” she says. “I had somewhat dip, so I attempted microblading (a tattooing method that fills in brows), however the ink bled so it appeared [Groucho Marx] or Frida Kahlo, and so I needed to get that eliminated.”