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Brooke Shields: The Truth Behind 10-Year-Old Brooke Shields’ Nude Playboy Photos
Brooke Shields standing naked in a bathtub in 1975, she was just 10 years old. Her body was later exposed in a series of photographs that were published in the Playboy magazine Sugar and Spice while she was covered in thick makeup and nothing else.
She was just a young child when her naked body appeared in a glossy magazine, but a few years later, she would star in her debut movie, which would launch her acting career.
It’s Almost Ironic That She Played a Young Prostitute in The Movie, Pretty Baby The sad reality is that Brooke had no way of knowing or comprehending what those nude images meant or how they would impact the rest of her life at the age of just 10.
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Brooke Shields Standing Naked in a Bathtub in 1975
Brooke Shields standing naked in a bathtub in 1975, she was just 10 years old. Her body was later exposed in a series of photographs that were published in the Playboy magazine Sugar and Spice
Although it has been stated that the images weren’t intended to be erotic in nature, Gary Gross was apparently paid $450 to photograph a prepubescent Brooke in the nude.
Surprisingly, her mother Terri Shields was on board with the shoot, as she had long dreamed of her daughter becoming a star.
Just five days after Brooke Shields was born in 1965, Terri said, “She’s the most beautiful child and I’m going to help her with her profession,” expressing her wish for Brooke to work in show business.
Terri apparently agreed to the photo shoot because she hoped her daughter would become famous. Brooke was heavily painted with eye makeup, lipstick, and oil for the shoot.
The 10-year-old was then instructed to pose both sitting and standing in a bathtub, with Brooke appearing full-frontal in two of the pictures.
When asked about one of those images in 2009, Gross told the Daily Telegraph: “The photo has been infamous from the day I took it and I intended it to be.”
While acknowledging that Brooke “was designed to look like a sexy woman,” he continued that the photographs weren’t intended to be obscene.
Playboy Publication
Brooke was photographed for the Playboy-owned Sugar and Spice magazine, which was less explicit than the actual Playboy edition.
Sugar & Spice was billed as more artistic than its cousin, even though it still featured a lot of pictures of naked women. It was published as a series of volumes that promised “surprising and sensual images of women.”
The article featured Brooke in 1976, printing two images of her 10-year-old body in their entirety, one of which covered a two-page spread.
According to reports, the issue she was in also featured three additional pages with images of “nymphets,” who are described as “beautiful and sexually mature adolescent girls. The girls in the other pictures could have been younger or older.
The Result
When the pictures were released While still in high school, Brooke appeared in her first feature film 2 years later, and by the time she appeared on the cover of Vogue and in the movie The Blue Lagoon in 1980, she had achieved international stardom.
The Blue Lagoon, Brooke’s second movie after Pretty Baby, also had a lot of explicit sexual material with the actress, who was 14 at the time.
Less than a year later, her mother sued Gross in court for $1 million in damages related to the nude photos of Brooke after realizing the actress’s star was rising.
Terri contended that Gross shouldn’t have been allowed to keep selling the images because they may significantly impair her daughter’s career. When the images were taken in 1975, she had granted Gross all ownership rights.
The photographs were “neither romantic or pornographic,” except to “potentially perverted minds,” according to Justice Edward Greenfield of the New York State Supreme Court, which dismissed the claim.
Current Controversy
The actress and model Brooke continued to gain popularity during the 1980s and 1990s, appearing on magazine covers and starring in a number of high-profile movies.
But when artist Richard Prince included one of the pictures in a transformational piece of his own work, the nude photos of her as a youngster came back into the public eye.
There was an issue with the Spiritual America artwork that was supposed to go on show in 2009 at the Tate Modern Gallery in London.
The artwork was taken down after Scotland Yard claimed displaying a picture of a naked 10-year-old would be against London’s obscenity laws.
Since then, the images have largely been blocked and only a small number of copies have been published online. A number of unedited versions were also put up for auction by Heritage Auctions in 2017.
They recently came back into the spotlight because to a meme that had Hugh Hefner’s face retouched onto a picture of Brooke without any clothing on.
The photographs were originally published by Sugar and Spice in the 1970s, not Playboy magazine as stated in the meme.
Thankfully, these days there’s no way a tabloid could get away with publishing suggestive images of naked youngsters the way Sugar and Spice did with Brooke decades ago.
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