Brooke Shields Recalls Andre Agassi’s Body Shaming During Their Marriage

Brooke Shields she shares a cheeky compliment with her then-husband Andre Agassi taken many years ago, saying it “got a little crazy” then.

In chapter 6 of his new book titled Brooke Shields must not age, Shields, 56, recalls how her time in the spotlight affected her body image issues.

“I was told in great detail there wasn’t runway-worthy because I wasn’t skinny enough,” she wrote. “When you hear that you are a ‘face’, you start to believe that that’s all you are – a face. I was Brooke Shields from the neck up, but it felt like my body existed in a different reality.

When she shared her body image concerns with a professional tennis player Agassiwho is she? he married in 1997he wasn’t as helpful as she had hoped.

“When I confessed my insecurities to my first husband, he always said, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you,'” she wrote. “But when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I get big and fat?’ (I meant when will I get pregnant – that’s an unfair question to ask someone I know!) I never expected his answer.

Shields said Agassi told her, “I love you too much to let you get fat and fat!” ”

“I definitely wasn’t expecting this and I must admit I started to squirm a little,” she wrote. “But we all know how that relationship turned out,” she added. (They divorced in 1999)

Shields – who shares two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18with her husband Chris Henchy — writes that she’s “glad” that she and Agassi never had children — but remembers it was because of something he said when they broke up: “‘Thank you we didn’t have kids,’ he said, ’cause I wouldn’t do it, we made it easy for you. ”

Shields always remember that. “It would be a disaster. When we divorced, he made that very clear to me,” she wrote in Chapter 7.

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