Brooke Shields spent decades believing Hollywood’s top agents rejected her because she wasn’t talented enough — only to learn after her mother’s death that many had actually wanted to represent her, just not with her mom managing her.
In a revealing interview on the Dinner's On Me Podcast, Brooke told host Jesse Tyler Ferguson that she finally got the validation about her talent after her mother, Teri, died. "And, you know, finding out later that, like, Sam Cohen wanted to represent me when I was, like, 14 or 15 or something, but he wanted my mom out of the picture. I never knew this," she shared.
"I didn't know this until she died," Brooke continued, adding, "And my godmother told me, and I was like, 'So he did think I had talent.' So all these years, I thought I was rejected by him because I wasn't talented. Meanwhile, I know that that type of validation doesn't necessarily mean the world... but it did to me 'cause he was a big agent of really great actors."
Brooke recalled the unique relationship she had with her mother, including the time when Teri refused to allow Brooke to quit college, despite Brooke begging to come home. It was around that time when Brooke decided to claim her independence from having her mom manage her career.
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"So she kind of forced me to stay [at Princeton], which for her, was the beginning of the end, 'cause...that was the beginning of my real individuation from her," Brooke recounted.
It was at that point forward that she decided to move away from having Teri manage her. "Because we didn't have a lot to hold onto except for fame at that point. So I think those four years gave me a perspective, enough to say, 'Okay, I have to go about all of this differently.' Because my next move was to leave her as a manager and go to an agency that I'd never been with before."
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