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Brooke Shields Feels ‘More Confident’ Than Ever Before as She Approaches 60

Brooke Shields tells Us Weekly, ahead of her latest memoir, about feeling happier, finding strength and choosing not to care what people think about her

As she grew up, she continued to shine but used her voice more defiantly — most memorably in a 2005 New York Times op-ed response to Tom Cruise ’s attack on her use of antidepressants during postpartum depression after the birth of her first daughter, Rowan. Frustrated by “being overlooked at the exact moment I was feeling in my prime,” as she writes, she added a new entry to her résumé in 2024: founder and CEO of Commence, an online community and haircare brand designed for women over 40. “The more I’m expected to be invisible, to make no demands or to fade away so that I can be frozen in time as a specific (read: younger) version of Brooke Shields,” she writes, “the more fully I intend to stand tall and take up space as the woman I am now.” The star once known as America’s sweetheart talks to Us about stepping into her power.

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