After Admitting She Can Find Sex “Painful,” Brooke Shields Shared Intimate Details About How Her Sex Life Has Changed In Her 50s

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For reference, Brooke first rose to fame as a child star in the ‘70s, becoming well-known for the controversial movie roles she played as a minor, such as a child sex worker in Pretty Baby. In more recent years, she’s talked super openly about how being exploited and heavily sexualized as a child deeply impacted her.

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“I waited that long because I had the weight of the world on me,” she goes on. “And even once we started sleeping together, I never really let loose.”

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“Now here I am, more than thirty-five years later, sometimes pretending I’m asleep when I know Chris is in the mood,” she writes, referring to her husband, Chris Henchy, who she married in 2001. “And that has nothing to do with Chris — he’s hot!”

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“I’m going through all the bodily shit that comes with aging as a woman even in the best of times,” she adds. “The thinning hair and the peach fuzz and the brand-new belly fat and vaginal dryness and the diminishing sex drive.”

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“My doctor told me I should start taking testosterone — sure you might get a few more whiskers, but that’s what tweezers are for — but I haven’t gotten there yet,” she writes in the chapter. “For now, I’m counting on the old ‘the more you have it, the more you’ll enjoy it’ approach.”

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“On a personal level, I’m in a place where sex can be painful,” she writes. “For me to fully enjoy sex at this point, I need my lotions and potions, the right sleepwear (maybe calling it sleepwear is contributing to the problem), my special pillow, and maybe a tequila so I can relax.”