Brooke Shields recalls noticing her first wrinkle during a photo shoot

Brooke Shields she remembers the exact moment when she noticed the first wrinkle in a fragment of her new book.

The actress and model (59) details the wrinkle on her skin during a photo shoot in her memoir Brooke Shields must not age – which hit shelves on January 14.

Shields wrote that after posing for a few photos, she “had a look at the monitor.”

She then pointed to what looked like a “weird line” on the check and told the photographer, “I think there’s some dust on the camera lens.”

However, the photographer quickly corrected it.

“His reaction was like sympathy: ‘Oh, you’re cute.’ There was no dust. “That ‘something’ was a wrinkle,” Shields wrote.

The Start The CEO continued to say that once, during a routine visit to a dermatologist, the doctor “waved his hand in my face and said, ‘We can fix this…’ “in reference to her aging appearance.

“Sometimes I look back and feel like I did something wrong because I no longer have the body or face I once had. And yet if I did something drastic to preserve my youthful appearance or stop aging, I would be judged or punished for it too,” Shields wrote in a reflection. “Do I sometimes wish all my bits had stayed taller and firmer? Or that I have the same skin that appeared on the cover of Life magazine in 1983? Of course!”

Published by Macmillan, the memoir is “an intimate and empowering exploration of aging that flips the script on what aging means for a woman.”

January 13 during An evening with Brooke Shieldswhich is hosted by Flow spaceShields talked about how an unpleasant experience at a party inspired her to write the title of her book.

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Shields said she struck up a conversation with the homeowner about the wine.

“I compared myself to a bottle of 1965 Barolo – it was like jam at that point,” she explained. “He kind of shut down and his tone changed. He said, “You really shouldn’t tell me that.” I thought, “Wow, wait, that’s offensive.”

The actress continued: “And then it hit me: We imprint on people of a certain age – like we have their picture in our locker, and when they grow up, we’re not ready for it. We are getting old too. And I think getting older is brave.”

Brooke Shields must not age is now available wherever books are sold.