Brooke Shields Recalls Feeling ‘Taken Advantage of’ by Barbara Walters in Controversial 1981 Interview
In the interview, the ABC news anchor asked Shields a series of invasive, intimate questions regarding her Calvin Klein ad, including those about her body measurements. “I stand up and she’s comparing herself to this little girl and I thought, ‘This isn’t right. I don’t understand what this is,’” Shields recalled. “But I behaved and smiled and felt like so taken advantage of in so many ways.”
Barrymore, who was also a child star, shared her own pressing interview experience with Walters, but first prefaced the story by saying she “loves” Walters, “really looks up to her,” and has never seen her in “a negative light.” “She was like, ‘Talk to me about the drugs and alcohol, talk to me about your mother, talk to me about bisexuality, talk to me about everything,’” Barrymore recalled. “And I kept saying, ‘You know Barbara I’m really doing well,’ and it was five, six, seven times over.”SKIMS bra campaign
, which she shot 40-plus years after her viral Calvin Klein ad. She told Barrymore that modeling underwear at 57 was “empowering.” “I had to fake it until I made it,” she said, which you would never be able to tell by looking at the incredible shots. “I felt like I was in a train wreck by the end of it, but it was an honor,” she added. “There was a human piece to it, that probably shocked me more than the fact that I had the guts at all to get in underwear after these few years.”
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