Actress and author of the New York Times bestseller Down Came the Rain, Brooke Shields, explores her relationship with her unforgettable mother, Teri, in her new memoir.
Brooke Shields never had what anyone would consider an ordinary life. She was raised by her Newark-tough single mom, Teri, a woman who loved the world of show business and was often a media sensation all by herself. Brooke's iconic modeling career began by chance when she was only eleven months old, and Teri's skills as both Brooke's mother and manager were formidable. But in private she was troubled and drinking heavily.
As Brooke became an adult the pair made choices and sacrifices that would affect their relationship forever. And when Brooke’s own daughters were born she found that her experience as a mother was shaped in every way by the woman who raised her. But despite the many ups and downs, Brooke was by Teri’s side when she died in 2012, a loving daughter until the end.
Only Brooke knows the truth of the remarkable, difficult, complicated woman who was her mother. And now, in an honest, open memoir about her life growing up, Brooke will reveal stories and feelings that are relatable to anyone who has been a mother or daughter.
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“The actress and former model traces her mother’s life—starting with Teri’s
working-class Newark, New Jersey, upbringing and distant parents—as well as her
own…From her first modeling job for Ivory soap as a toddler to her heyday as
the poster girl for Calvin Klein, Shields, with her distinctive ‘European look,’
let her mother make decisions for her, without much thought to a ‘career’ but
with an eye to money and trips they took together. Some of those decisions were
highly criticized…Eventually the actress found some independence by attending
Princeton…[and] some degree of self-awareness emerges.”
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Publishers Weekly