• News
  • Film and TV
  • Music
  • Tech
  • Features
  • Celebrity
  • Politics
  • Weird
  • Community
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
TikTok
YouTube
Submit Your Content
Brooke Shields' daughters react to controversial scene she filmed aged 11 where she had to kiss 29-year-old

Home> Celebrity> News

Published 17:24 30 Aug 2024 GMT+1

Brooke Shields' daughters react to controversial scene she filmed aged 11 where she had to kiss 29-year-old

The actress starred alongside actor Keith Carradine in the 1978 movie

Niamh Spence

Niamh Spence

Watching your parent be romantic is pretty awkward most of the time, but it can't be easy when your mom is a celebrity actress and clips of her kissing and starring in love scenes are everywhere.

For Rowan and Grier Henchy, the daughters of iconic actress Brooke Shields, it's also made even worse when the clip most people are viewing is from a film in the late 1970s when Shields was just 11-years-old.

The film, Pretty Baby, focused on photographer Carradine - played by a then 29-year-old Keith Carradine -in 1917, who meets a prostitute in a New Orleans brothel, played by Susan Sarandon.

Advert

Brooke Shields' two daughters, now 18 and 21, have had a strong reaction to one of her movies (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)
Brooke Shields' two daughters, now 18 and 21, have had a strong reaction to one of her movies (Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Images)

The film then takes an odd and pretty gross twist as Carradine's character, named Bellocq, befriends her 12-year-old daughter Violet, played by Shields.

Bellocq and Violet have a romantic relationship and well, it's all pretty downhill from there as Violet gets sucked into working in the brothel.

Discussing watching their mom kiss on screen when she hadn't even become a teenager, Grier and Rowan are understandably grossed out.

Advert

Speaking to PEOPLE, 18-year-old Grier said: "I don’t like this movie. I’ve seen enough of it on TikTok. I would prefer not to watch my mom being sold as an 11-year-old prostitute. I’d rather watch the funny and happy ones."

Brooke Shields was just 11-years-old when she starred in Pretty Baby opposite 29-year-old Keith Carradine (Paramount)
Brooke Shields was just 11-years-old when she starred in Pretty Baby opposite 29-year-old Keith Carradine (Paramount)

She continued: "That’s weird. She had to kiss someone [over] twice her age."

21-year-old Rowan agreed as she added: "Your stage kiss does not count as a real kiss."

Advert

Shields has previously revealed that Carradine tried to put her at ease, and was obviously aware of how big an age gap there was and the weirdness that came with it.

In her 2023 documentary, also named Pretty Baby, Shields explained: "He told me it doesn’t count [as a first kiss] which was very sweet. He was probably struggling too."

The movie is understandably uncomfortable viewing and hasn't aged very well, which Shields adds would not likely be made now.

Shields has revealed that she was told her 'stage kiss doesn't count' (Robin Marchant/FilmMagic)
Shields has revealed that she was told her 'stage kiss doesn't count' (Robin Marchant/FilmMagic)

Advert

She said: "The conversations are so different now. It’s a weak argument to say to very aware women, ‘That’s the way it was then.’ It was a norm but that’s not an argument. Nothing I did then, you could get away with doing now."

Needless to say the movie with their pre-teen mom doesn't feature high on either of the girls' 'must watch' lists, as Rowan explained: "It’s more like it never really crossed my mind to say, ‘Movie night, let’s watch Pretty Baby.’

"I’m either watching Love Island or a new movie, like Minions or Despicable Me. It’s not like I’m purposefully avoiding watching my mother.

"I loved Mother of the Bride and Castle for Christmas."

Featured Image Credit: Dominik Bindl/Getty Images / Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Sex and Relationships, Brooke Shields

Niamh Spence
Niamh Spence

I am a freelance journalist, who writes and contributes to lifestyle and online titles. Previous work includes; The Telegraph, LadBible, Entertainment Daily, BBC, The Mirror, The Metro, Tyla.etc

X

@missnspence

Advert

Advert

Advert

  • Brooke Shields has brutally honest answer as she explains why only one daughter will inherit her jewelry when she dies
  • Celebrity chef Anne Burrell's final Instagram post before she suddenly died aged 55 as police release heartbreaking details
  • Keira Knightley reveals Love Actually scene she had to redo aged 17 because it was too ‘creepy’
  • Billie Eilish new boyfriend 'confirmed' as singer spotted kissing Hollywood actor in Venice

Choose your content:

12 hours ago
14 hours ago
a day ago
  • 12 hours ago

    Seth Rogen explains why one audition tape could ‘end his career’ if it leaked to the public

    Hollywood actor Seth Rogen explained his audition nightmare, which could ruin his life's work

    Celebrity
  • 14 hours ago

    Johnny Depp makes rare comments on Amber Heard trial and their relationship

    Johnny Depp has been speaking about his turbulent relationship with Amber Heard in the Sunday papers

    Celebrity
  • a day ago

    Lizzo discusses use of Ozempic as she reveals 'controversial' truth behind weight-loss

    The star has opened up about using it

    Celebrity
  • a day ago

    Nick Cannon leaves people stunned as he attempts to name all twelve of his children

    He even wrote a verse to help him remember... make of that what you will

    Celebrity