Brooke Shields Opens Up About Aging in the Spotlight

Brooke Shields always keeps it real when it comes to aging.

Shields, 59, opened up about getting older in the public eye while making an appearance on Good Morning America on Monday, January 13, while promoting her memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, which dropped on Tuesday, January 14.

“It’s important to understand where you’ve been, but I think it’s really joyous to say, ‘I may not know where I’m going, but I’m here,’” Shields said. “I want to look my best, and I want to be healthy,” the actresses added.

While Shields admitted that she wishes “things were a little higher and tighter,’” she still feels that she’s “earned everything I have on my face.”

“It’s important to pat yourself on the back and say, ‘What do you want to do now?’ You’re no longer tied to biology in the same way,” Shields explained.

This is hardly the first time Shields has been candid when it comes to aging. Earlier this month, Shields exclusively opened up to Us Weekly about the changing views around getting older in a modern-day world.

“Yes, [aging] does have the downsides, but [women are] no longer chasing something: gotta have babies by this age, gotta get married, gotta finish college,” she told Us. “There are so many decades where we’re just trying to get to the next stage. And then there’s a shift.”

Shields continued, adding that aging has made her feel “more ambitious” in pushing boundaries in life.

“I feel I deserve it more. I still get afraid. I still get nervous I’m not good enough. I still have to force myself to push through, [but] we are becoming unignorable,” the Pretty Baby star said. “We’re pretty formidable, and I think that’s a little frightening for everybody.”