Fact: Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields was among the New York residents who reported for jury duty at Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday (01Sep15). The Blue Lagoon star was photographed lining up on the steps of the building with her fellow potential jurors as she awaited screening by court officials.
Quote: "I am so (hoarse) just talking about myself. I'm losing my own voice. I'm sick of hearing myself talk!" Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields is battling a sore throat as she continues to promote her new memoir There Was A Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me.
Quote: "She's cremated and she's in a martini shaker... She gets to stare at me 24/7 and she's on my bar!" Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields has found a quirky place to keep her mother's ashes. Actress/producer Teri Shields, who passed away in 2012 due to a dementia-related illness, had struggled with alcohol addiction prior to her death, according to her daughter.
Quote: "I am divorced, and mine was very quick and relatively easy but it's a very interesting thing because he - quote, unquote - did say to me, 'Be happy that we don't have children or I would not have made this easy for you'... And therein lies why I'm not there anymore." Actress Brooke Shields on her divorce from tennis ace Andre Agassi after almost two years of marriage.
Quote: "Third grade, violin, did not want to play the violin and the teacher wouldn't let me quit! I said, 'I really don't wanna play violin, I'd rather play the flute, or recorder', or whatever the other option was and she said, 'No, I can't let you, you're my best student'. So I went back into class the next day and said (to another classmate), 'Ah... do you hate the violin as much as I do?' and she said, 'Miss Shields, out!' She wouldn't let me quit so I got myself fired!" Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields used her acting skills to get herself out of her childhood violin class.
Fact: Actress Brooke Shields has to undergo regular shots from her doctor because she's allergic to her own dog.
Fact: Actress Whoopi Goldberg, former model Brooke Shields and The Roots star ?Uestlove have teamed up to shoot a spoof of British period series Downtown Abbey. The group filmed the scene in old Victorian garb for U.S. programme Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and the short piece aired on Thursday (24May12).
Quote: "It's very sad, actually. We're all in that sort of trauma where we have her ashes and the girls carry these little footprints of hers around. She was the only dog we've really ever had." Actress Brooke Shields and her family are grieving over the loss of their 13-year-old American bulldog, Darla.
Fact: Model/actress Brooke Shields poked fun at the sex scandal surrounding New York congressman Anthony Weiner during the opening number at the 2011 Tony Awards on Sunday (12Jun11). She joined show host Neil Patrick Harris for the comical song, quipping, "In fact, one guy sent a Twitpic of his crotch!" The married politician last week (begs06Jun11) admitted to lying about sending an explicit picture to a female student via Twitter, while he also confessed to having intimate phone and internet chats with other women.
Quote: "I did try it (between my eyebrows) once and I was so claustrophobic for the next four months because I had no expression." Brooke Shields is adamant she'll never try Botox again.
Fact: Brooke Shields enlisted the help of her family for her latest promotional project - the actress appears in adverts for home brand Royal Velvet alongside her husband, Chris Henchy, and their two daughters, Rowan, six, and Grier, four.
Quote: "I make people kiss my ring. I make people walk behind me... It's made me impossible to be around." Actress Brooke Shields jokes about life as a royal after discovering her ancestors were French monarchs while tracing her family tree for U.S. TV show Who Do You Think You Are?
Fact: Actress Brooke Shields has learned she's related to the French royal family after tracing her genealogy on hit new U.S. TV show Who Do You Think You Are?
Fact: ROMEO + JULIET star Claire Danes is following in the footsteps of Brooke Shields after signing up to be the new spokesmodel for eyelash growth product Latisse.
Quote: "You may think love will change everything, but it really is different with children. Children don't necessarily bring you together, they challenge you." Parenthood can put a strain on Brooke Shields' marriage to Chris Henchy.
Fact: Eva Longoria PARKER, Brooke Shields, Lauren Hutton, Carrie Underwood and Anjelica Huston are to appear in a new print ad celebrating the 20th anniversary of clothing giants Badgley Mischka. The women, all big fans of Badgley Mischka designs, will pose in gowns the duo have made.
Fact: Actress Brooke Shields will help a lucky couple spark up some romance on Valentine's Day (14Feb09) after revealing a chocolate-covered hotel room is up for grabs on Wednesday (28Jan09). The winner of Godiva chocolatier's edible suite will be flown to New York for a saucy stay in the city's Bryant Park Hotel.
Fact: Brooke Shields is set to become the face of safe tanning after signing on to front pioneering anti-ageing sunscreen product Coppertone NutraShield.
Quote: "I'm so glad for him! I think it's ironic, all the work that he does (and) that's what he gets nominated for. I think he's done tremendous work so I think he's probably chuckling about it too." Actress Brooke Shields congratulates Tom Cruise on his Golden Globe nomination after the actor went bald and put on a fat suit for his supporting role in TROPIC THUNDER.
Quote: "One year when I was younger, I went as Charlie Chaplin when all my friends were sexy gypsies. I won first prize, but after I saw all the sexy gypsies, I wanted to be one of them. Maybe that's why I'm in therapy now." Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields is haunted by the memories of her childhood Halloween costumes.
Quote: "I don't think I'd do that to myself. Because I was 15. And that's not good for anybody, to try on things you wore when you were 15." Model-turned-actress Brooke Shields has vowed to leave her the designer jeans that made her famous in her 1980 ads for Calvin Klein in the closet.
Quote: "People think of me as a mannequin. All show and no substance." Actress Brooke Shields on people's preconceptions of her.
Quote: "She had just had knee surgery because she broke her knee cap and I just finished having double foot surgery, so the two of us were such gimps, gimping onto the set. She needed a golf cart and I needed crutches." Brooke Shields on working with Mary Tyler Moore for the new series of U.S. TV series Lipstick Jungle.
Quote: "She had just had knee surgery because she broke her knee cap and I just finished having double foot surgery, so the two of us were such gimps, gimping onto the set. She needed a golf cart and I needed crutches." Brooke Shields on working with Mary Tyler Moore for the new series of U.S. TV series Lipstick Jungle.
Fact: Teenage mum Jamie Lynn Spears is set to give fairytale figure GOLDILOCKS a voice in new animated children's show UNSTABLE FABLES: GOLDILOCKS + THE THREE BEARS. Tom Arnold and Brooke Shields are also involved in the project.
Fact: Actress Parker Posey served as 'best man' at pal Chris Kattan's wedding to SUNSHINE TUTT last month (Jun08), while guests at the Yosemite Valley nuptials in California included Will Ferrell, Jimmy Fallon, Charlie Sheen and Brooke Shields.
Quote: "I just spin and do yoga. I can't do any weight-training, otherwise I really would look like The Hulk... My body responds very well." Mum-of-two Brooke Shields has to be careful with her gym workouts.
Quote: "I just don't think c**t is a controversial word. I find it frighteningly sad that there was an outrage... that Jane Fonda said it... It is just a word." Brooke Shields defends Fonda after she uttered the 'c' word in a live TV interview last week (ends15Feb08).
Quote: "Watch, I'll come out of that surgery with double D's (breast size). It'll be my version of a deviated septum." Brooke Shields jokes about upcoming surgery on her feet.
Quote: "I don't lead a controversial life at all, and yet my career has been so fraught with controversy." Actress Brooke Shields reflects on her professional life to date.
Quote: "I'm really proud to be a mom of two and not use a body double." Brooke Shields on playing sexy and naked on new TV show LIPSTICK JUNGLE.
Fact: Glenn Close and Brooke Shields are second cousins.
Quote: "Exercise helps me beat stress. Having a beer also helps me decompress, though it's hard for me to say that, because I come from an alcoholic family." Actress Brooke Shields reveals her methods of relaxation.
Fact: Brooke Shields sent Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes $1,000 (GBP500) worth of Tupperware products as a housewarming present for their new Los Angeles mansion.
Fact: Brooke Shields is to play ACHY BREAKY HEART singer Billy Ray Cyrus' late wife in an upcoming flashback episode of hit family TV show HANNAH MONTANA, which also stars his daughter MILEY.
Fact: Brooke Shields and her husband Chris Henchy baptised their second baby daughter GRIER at St Patrick's Cathedral in New York on Friday (24NOV06).
Fact: Actress Brooke Shields is so desperate to be at new pal Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' Italian wedding this weekend, she's delaying a movie project to be there.
Quote: "Going into this pregnancy was very different. I did not undergo any fertility treatments, which was basically a shock; my husband and I were actually in the same room." Actress Brooke Shields on her easy second pregnancy.
Fact: Faith Hill and Sheryl Crow have been chosen as two of fitness magazine Self's 10 Most Inspiring Women. Joining the singers are actresses Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon, Brooke Shields and designer DONNA KARAN.
Fact: Dallas star Larry Hagman and French actress Catherine Deneuve are to make guest appearances in hit television show NIP/TUCK. Brooke Shields, Richard Chamberlain and Kathleen Turner will also feature in the fourth series of the American programme.
Fact: Brooke Shields, Kathleen Turner and Larry Hagman will all guest star in the upcoming season of hit plastic surgery drama NIP/TUCK.
Quote: "Hollywood could not write a better script for a happy ending." US talk show host Katie Couric on Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise having babies on the same day, after publicly sparring last year (05) over the use of anti-depressants to treat post-partum depression.
Quote: "We both have the same bushy eyebrows." Oscar winner Rachel Weisz on being mistaken for actress Brooke Shields.
Fact: Brooke Shields and husband Chris Henchy have already picked out a name for her new baby girl when she arrives - GRIER.
Fact: <p>Actresses Glenn Close and Brooke Shields are distant cousins. </p>