During a recent interview with BBC’s Influential with Katty Kay that aired on Feb. 21, the model and actress was reminded of her very first modeling gig at 11 months old, when she appeared in an ad for Ivory soap.
“I was the original influencer,” Shields joked to British journalist Katty Kay.
“In this day and age where everybody’s hyper-focused on everything all the time, you know, it seems par for the course,” she said of her early fame. “But for it to have been the focal point for almost 60 years—” the mom of two interrupted herself briefly to laugh before continuing, “it’s odd. But, you know, it was a poignant time when that’s how we made a living.”
The 59-year-old actress pointed out that her first modeling job wasn’t an opportunity she campaigned to secure for herself. “I had no idea what I was doing at 11 months old. I wasn’t exactly ambitious then,” she joked. “And it’s an interesting trajectory because, what if that hadn’t happened? What if I didn’t get the Ivory soap ad?”
“That topic has surprisingly come up a lot,” said Shields, who has been doing press for the last few months in support of her new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, which she released in January.
Shields added that “there was a stubbornness” within her “that didn’t want anybody else to win.”
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