“There will be a clickbait coming from it,” Brooke Shields warn ridiculously after reminding a very personal and difficult medical experience. “But the important thing is that a conversation opens.”
In her latest book, the actress and the icon opens for an eclectic lavation submitted after children and the subsequent vaginal rejuvenation made by the doctor – without her consent.
“The beneficiary of a tightening process was unintentionally,” Katie Couric Media tells 59 -year -old in an exclusive interview. “I was under anesthesia, I didn’t know it was happening. The doctor took it to himself to give me a little bonus,” he says. “I was shocked. I felt so helpless and crazy and scared. ”
At that time, it was reluctant to take action or to speak. After years of public examination of her image, “she did not want the discussion to come back to my anatomy,” says Shields.
“I should have sued this person,” he says. “I wasn’t strong enough.”
Shields, whose modeling career began when she was 11 months old, was in the public eye long enough to know that by sharing this in her book – and in interviews like this – her body will become the subject of National again conversation. But at least now she does it on her own terms-and for good reason: she tells us that she feels the responsibility of setting a good example for her daughters, 21-year-old Rowan and 18-year-old Grier, and encourage other women to support themselves.
Shields writes extensively about navigating the healthcare system in its third memoirs, Brooke Shields is not allowed to grow oldout next week. As you can imagine, it also explores topics such as hormone replacement therapy, become an empty nester and experience of older age, while the perception of the public about the ruins of a 15-year-old formed for Calvin Klein.
We talked with shields about why she shares such personal stories now, the changing beauty patterns for women and her experience with menopause.
Katie Couric Media: The title of your book really speaks to one of its most important issues. As an icon, there is an external pressure to stay young. How did you navigate this?
Brooke Shields: I think all women face pressure to stay young. There is this idea that youth is where all value is also an obsession with beauty. Part of this is really healthy and wonderful, and part of it can be very damaging. It is something that women have always faced, but now they reach this acute level where we see younger ones and younger people are trying to avoid aging. I think this is due to social media. People’s views are so easily available around the world and this frenzied level of toxicity has been created.
You write about emotion as vibrant and confident as always, and your society rejects other women of your age. Can you explain what it feels?
I think the irony for women is that when you start to feel that you have the maturity and sense of self -speaking in power, you begin to overlook. Something like 1 percent of ads have women over 60 years. When I see these statistics and I think of all the women I know about this age, they are a bit confused. And it does not reflect my truth and how I feel at this stage of life and it is certainly not the truth about 99 percent of women I speak with 40-plus. It is something that I believe must be highlighted and has to change.
You had complications from a cervical biopsy and an unwanted vaginal rejuvenation that you write in the book. Can you tell us about these experiences and why have you decided to talk about them?
They both happened before I really knew that I could ask questions from my doctors. I guess these medical professionals will give me all the information I need about what will happen to my body. I was well with the cone biopsy because it probably saved my life, but I was not told at all about the possibilities I could deal with as a result of the pregnant woman. Then I found myself in the late 1930s and early 1940s behind the eight ball, unable to become pregnant, not knowing why, and is not even able to do IVF. If I was given this information I could be more active. But everything felt a bit hidden and hush-hush just because they had to do with my vagina. It’s a part of my anatomy and it’s not right that I didn’t feel encouraged to talk about it.
When it comes to reducing my lips, I had a wonderful gynecologist who trained me for this choice for anyone who had pain in any way because of the nature of their anatomy. I didn’t know this was one thing, I thought something was wrong with me. He said, “This is something that can be better for you, and you deserve to be out of discomfort.” In this process of carrying out this, I became unintentionally the beneficiary of a tightening process. I was under anesthesia, I didn’t know it was happening. This doctor took it to himself to do that, and I was shocked. I felt so helpless and crazy and scared, and I didn’t want the conversation to come back, back to my anatomy. I just didn’t want to deal with control.
I told my 21 -year -old daughter that I put it in the book and said, “Is it that the surgery where your doctor gave you some extra stitches for the man? This is what we are talking about now.
I should have sued this person. I wasn’t strong enough and I didn’t. I’m going out now, and it’s my turn to feel like I’m ready to do it. And there will be a clickbait coming from it – and there is a bad joke where it just came to me, but I’m not going to say – but the important thing is that a conversation is opening.
What was your experience with menopause?
I had experiences with hormone taking before, so I was very aware of the symptoms that I might may start to feel – everything from hot flashes to irritability. I talked to my gynecologist about biomedical hormone therapy and made the decision to continue it. He told me that it would help you stabilize me through this period, which could be one year, two years or 20 and my experience was not so bad, but only because I had not caught a guard. So many women are very fearful of it because of lack of knowledge and when you give them information and freedom to ask questions about their bodies without embarrassment, which removes a level of stress.
This interview has been elaborated and concentrated for clarity and length.
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