Brooke Shields Is “Lenient” With Her Lookalike Daughters Despite Her “Strict” Childhood
"I was in a locked box!"
Key Points
- Brooke Shields had a "strict" childhood and is subsequently "more lenient" with her own daughters, Rowan and Grier.
- Despite her fame, the Sahara actress said she had "the antithesis of the wild existence."
- Shields shares her children with her husband, the film director Chris Henchy.
Brooke Shields is opening up about becoming the "more lenient" parent to her two lookalike daughters, Rowan and Grier Henchy. Speaking of her family's Fourth of July plans on an episode of Today with Jenna & Friends, the Sahara actress explained that her kids and their boyfriends are coming to their house for the holiday, where there are "only so many beds."
“I’m usually the tougher one, but for some reason, because they all want to be there, there’s something that just makes me feel like, 'Well, at least they all want to be together,'" she explained. "If they can be respectful and certain things can be where they’re supposed to be."
Shields continued, “I don’t know. It’s weird. I just cannot believe that I’m the person who’s more lenient when I didn’t even lose my virginity until I was 22. I was in a locked box!"
The empty nester went on to describe her own upbringing as "strict" and "Catholic," despite her fame. “I had the antithesis of the wild existence,” she said.
Shields skyrocketed to fame at the age of 14 with the release of her film The Blue Lagoon. She has since become a household name. In 2001 she married the film director Chris Henchy, with whom she shares her two children. As for his parenting style?
“The fathers really look at their baby girls as perpetually baby girls," she said. "I’ve had to say, ‘Come on, let’s pick our battles here.’ He’s like, ‘You have to have that conversation. I’m not having that conversation.'"
