Actress Brooke Shields appears on the cover of Fitness magazine’s October issue. The star of this fall’s Lipstick Jungle and mom to daughters Rowan Francis, 4, and Grier Hammond, 16 months, opens up about being 42, working out, and dealing with the tough questions.
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Lipstick Jungle co-stars Brooke Shields and Kim Raver go way back –all the way to grade school. The actresses lost touch over the years,but have since reconnected and become best friends, and so have theirchildren.
Her [daughter Rowan, 4] and my son [Luke, 5] get along so well.
Good thing too, since the two often spend time together with eachother’s families in New York when they aren’t shooting. Brooke, 42, and husband Chris Henchy are also parentsto Grier, 16 months while Kim, 38, is seven months pregnant with herand husband Manu Boyer‘s second child.
[The pregnancy's] gone by so much faster because I’m busy with thefirst kid. You’re so preoccupied with getting your kid to school andbathing him that all of a sudden you think, ‘Oh, I’m in my thirdtrimester.’ It’s amazing.
As for Brooke, she’s thinking about her daughters’ futures. She hadpreviously stated she’s wary of them following her into show businesseven though she has a tendency to encourage them to perform for her.
I’ll let them do what they want as long as they get an education; that’s the one thing they can’t take away from you.
The former child star also thinks it’s important to teach kids respect,especially looking at the woes of current starlets today.
I don’t think that kids today have respect because it’s not taught tothem. I look at my kids and think, ‘If they don’t listen to me now, howare they going to listen to me when they’re 16?’
Source: OK!, September 10 issue, pg 62-63
Luke is wearing IKKS’ backstage bus tee ($26).
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Actress and model Brooke Shields, 42, gets a hand in rolling up her pants from Rowan Francis, 4, then swings and runs after Grier Hammond, 16 months, as Rowan plays in the sand at a Malibu beach on Saturday.
Photos by Flynet.
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Actress Brooke Shields, 42, hosts Week 3 of the 2007 Mercedes-Benz Polo Challenge at JetOne Jets Field in Bridgehampton, NY on Saturday. She attended the event with husband Chris Henchy and daughters Rowan Francis, 4, and Grier Hammond, 15 months. The girls wore matching dresses in different shades.
Photos by Startraks.
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Actress Brooke Shields, 42, her writer and producer husband Chris Henchy, 43, and their daughters Rowan Francis, 4, and Grier Hammond, 14 months, walk to the Pacific Palisades Independence Day parade on Wednesday.
Photos by Flynet. Thanks to CBB reader Jessie.
Brooke is pushing Grier in a Silver Cross Micro V.2 in Pink/Black ($130).
She has a Coach Hamptons Scribble Diaper Bag (eBay).
Rowan wears Unique Designs Boutique’s Flag Flip Flops ($18).
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Actress Brooke Shields, 42, took her daughters Rowan Francis, 4, and Grier Hammond, 14 months, for a jog on the Fourth of July. Grier fell asleep in the stroller, so Brooke stopped to check on her and adjust her head.
Photos by Flynet.
The girls ride in Phil & Ted’s Four In One Sport Buggy Stroller with doubles kit ($490).
This stroller, also owned by Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow for Apple and Moses, is especially great for parents with multiple children who don’t like the look of traditional doubles. The front seat holds up to 55 lbs, while the smaller ‘doubles’ seat holds up to 33 lbs on the bottom (where Grier is) or 44 lbs on the top.
Note that the handle is adjustable and can be pulled up, Brooke just hasn’t seemed to realize that!
Click below for another photo of Brooke, and an image showing the different ways a Phil & Ted’s can be set up.
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Brooke Shields threw a Tupperware party last week in support of her andthe brand’s Chain of Confidence campaign, which is dedicated topromoting self-confidence in girls and forging female friendships,something she’s hoping to instill in her daughters, Rowan, 4, and Grier,14 months, with husband Chris Henchy. The actress, 42, talks to OK!about the difficulty of raising her daughters in an image-obsessedcity, let alone culture, how she lost that baby weight, and, of course, Tupperware.
On raising kids in Hollywood: I think it’s hard everywhere.It’s hard when you’re going to parties that are bigger thanDisneyland! I find myself falling into it, but I’m not going to fallprey to it anymore. I pulled back and said, "I’m never doing it again.You pick three friends and we will do one activity together – a movie,boat ride, whatever – and that’s it."
On not spoiling her kids: You have to remind yourself. Mydaughter comes home from school and says, "So-and-so has this." Now itgets to the point where, when she gets a toy, she asks me if she cankeep it. I’m like, "Let’s go see if you can have anything else like it.If you don’t, you can. But if you have one more toy, you need to giveanother one away." I’m sure she gets afraid to attach to anything,which is why she’ll be in therapy later and that will also be my fault![Laughs] But I do what I can.
On instilling strong values: You have to, because of thethings they come home with from school! Just at 4 years old, Rowansays, "Does this make me look fat, Mama?" I was like, "Excuse me?" Shegoes, "Well, that’s what so-and-so said in school." Wow!
How she dealt with the situation: We really had to talk. I sat down and Isaid, "Now what does that mean to you?" She didn’t understand theconnotation of it, but I took her through it from start to finish. Thenwe started in on the inside versus the outside – these cliches. Theyreally need to be embedded into these kids. They’re fine inside thehouse, but it’s the minute they leave the house. My older one, Rowan,she’ll say, "You look really beautiful, Mama." And it’s important if Ilook like a princess, because princesses are so big. You have to definereal life. It’s hard!
On dropping the baby weight: It was easier thesecond time. Running after the 4-year-old is a huge task. I spent thefirst three months of my second pregnancy on Broadway [in Chicago], soI was dancing four hours a day, every day.
Advice to moms trying to lose weight: It’s an old saying, butit took you nine months to get that way – it’s going to be a yearbefore you’re at least at a place where you’re even really strongenough. You have to give yourself a reality of time.
On Tupperware as a baby toy: They gave me a ton of it, and Iwas so thankful! It’s good for a baby toy! I stick my baby in front ofthe open drawer and she’s good for 30 minutes. That and a wooden spoon- they bang and clank and stack, and then I can make phone calls or getmy e-mails.
On Tupperware and what she hopes her kids learn from it: Ilove them. I think it’s kitsch and cool now. It started off asfunctional. Then people made a little fun of it. But I’ve seen so muchvideo of women who have made full-time careers of this. They’ve gonefrom being stay-at-home moms who didn’t think that they were capable ofanything, to this whole community of women. I love seeing that. That’swhat I believe in – I want my daughters to understand that as they growup.
Source: OK! Magazine, July 9 issue, pg 40-43
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