A magazine article in which a then-12-year-old Brooke Shields is described as a sultry mix of all-American virgin and nascent whore has this week resurfaced on social media sparking outrage.The article which was published by High Times in February 1978 is overtly sexual in its descriptions of Shields who at the time was two months away from the release of her movie Pretty Baby in which she portrayed a prostituted child.
In the opening paragraph the writer bylined as Ed Dwyer said The most perfect nymphette in all creation has been found—in America. Her name is Brooke Shields. Brookes hair is elegant brown and clean her skin pale and puritan her eyes sinfully blue and her lean body just starting to curve into womanhood. Controversial article about Brooke Shields resurfaces Brooke Shields is pictured main on May 17 2022 in New York City. Shields is pictured inset on May 24 1978 in London England. A 1978 article sexualizing Shields when she was a child has resrufaced on social media sparking outrage. Dimitrios KambourisGetty Images for The Hollywood ReporterBettmannGetty Images
Shes a sultry mix of all-American virgin and nascent whore. Shes the hottest new young thing in movies since a smoldering preteen named Elizabeth Taylor stiffened up Louie Mayers cigar. She is only 12 years old and destined to be the sex symbol of 1964. Descriptions of Shields now aged 57 go on to be more sexual and vulgar with the writer comparing the New York native to other young screen stars of the day. Unlike pugnacious Jodie Foster or puerile Tatum ONeal shes the delicious stuff of teenage fantasies become flesh barely old enough to want but too young to get the article said of Shields.
Concluding the writer calls Shields a sweet temptation to all by blind men and eunuchs. Shes a sister daughter sex object victim lover tramp. We can look forward to watching her fill out over the next decade. Brooke Shields is not just another pretty baby baby. In a post dated June 21 a Twitter user shared a screenshot of the article which remains in the online archives of High Times website alongside the caption that read in part Just in case you thought this was a new phenomenon. 13 year old Brooke Shields described as a sultry mix of American virgin and whore in 1978
The post sparked a strong wave of outrage among users of the micro-blogging platform a number of whom expressed shock at such an article being published. Commenting on the article The Washington Post columnist Taylor Lorenz wrote The first paragraph of this piece alone is horrifying. The Hill environmentenergy reporter Zack Budryk also weighed in on the article as he discussed how it related to a podcast on Hollywoods early history. One of the big themes of this past season of You Must Remember This is basically everyone working in Hollywood and the entertainment press in the 80s should be in prison Budryk said.
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Swedish art director Åsk Wäppling also expressed outrage at the post which featured a photo of Shields posing alongside embattled filmmaker Woody Allen among its collage of images.
You think the Woody Allen photo makes it the creepiest but then you read princess of wet dreams in the article and its all downhill from there tweeted Wäppling.
Allen has long denied accusations that he sexually molested his adopted daughter Dylan Farrow as a child. The claims were first made by Mia Farrow after Allen acrimoniously split from her in 1992.
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