Actress Brooke Shields told of being raped when she was a young actress in Hollywood in the new documentary about her life “Pretty Baby,” which premiered at the Sundance film festival.
The former supermodel did not reveal the identity of her rapist, but said she saw the man, whom she already knew, soon after she graduated from college, believing it was a business meeting on a new film.
The man took her to his hotel and told her he would call a cab from her room, but instead he undressed and then assaulted her. “I was afraid of being suffocated,” Shields recalled in the documentary. “I didn’t even struggle, I just said to myself, ‘Stay alive and then run away.'”
The revelation is one of many shocking moments in the film, which will be released on the streaming platform Hulu in two parts.
The first part examines the intense sexualization Shields experienced as a young girl, including a highly controversial nude photo shoot when she was only 10 years old, and her appearance as a child prostitute in the film ‘Pretty Baby’ a year later. The film, which was greeted at the festival with a standing ovation, also chronicles the media’s subsequent obsession with her virginity, her mother’s alcoholism, and her first marriage to tennis star Andre Agassi.
