Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman

by Brooke Shields

“Frail, Frumpy, and Forgotten: A Report on the Movie Roles of Women

the messaging I’m getting back is that by fifty, we’re finished. I believe I still have so much more to give, yet I’m being turned down and overlooked and dismissed everywhere I go. It’s like, ‘you’ve had

minute, I did not make it through all that bullshit just to be told that I’m

There’s this unleashing of creativity,

“I’ve come to a point in my life where I’ve learned it doesn’t hurt to ask for what I want and put it out into the universe.”

Commence was the result of a confluence of factors. First of all, and most importantly, there was the frustration of being overlooked at the exact moment I was feeling in my prime, and the