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Brooke Shields may be celebrated for her decades-long career as an entertainer (and her eyebrows), but the thing that sets her apart the most has nothing to do with her jobs or looks—it’s her unflappable track record for telling the truth. Think back to when she was procreating: Where many women in the public eye openly talked about experiencing a life force of power in this phase, Shields was one of the first women to talk publicly about postpartum depression. Cut to today, and the actor and newfound hair care entrepreneur still leads with honesty: For her, a surge of personal, professional, and creative power has culminated at age 60.
“At this age, I’m finding there’s this life force that I feel like I’ve never had before,” she says. “I used to cover up. I used to want to be smaller. I apologized—like a lot of women, I’d say ‘I’m sorry’ instead of ‘excuse me’. That type of oppression is part of what made me likable. It made me successful because I wasn’t ‘difficult’.”
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