Brooke Shields mentioned a plastic surgeon carried out a vaginal tightening process on her with out her consent, and he or she was so ashamed she didn’t inform husband Chris Henchy for a very long time.
The actor and mannequin made the revelation in an Us Weekly interview, which the journal teased Wednesday.
“It felt like such an invasion — such a bizarre, like, rape of some kind,” she mentioned.
Shields, who was selling her new e-book, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed To Get Old,” mentioned she underwent a deliberate labia discount in her 40s to lower discomfort, however her Beverly Hills surgeon revealed later that he had gone past what she particularly approved.
“He legitimately proudly explained to me that he, you know, threw in a little twofer,” she mentioned, per the article. “Nothing pointed toward this need to be tighter or smaller or firmer or younger, especially there.”
Shields, now 59, mentioned she felt each “shame” and “anger” however determined towards suing the surgeon, regardless of the process being “irreversible.” In line with an outline of the process from a cosmetic surgery hospital within the UK, vaginal tightening also can depart a scar that extends exterior the vagina for a number of centimeters.
“If we are to change the way we approach and talk about women’s health, then we need to bring up the uncomfortable but very real issues,” the “Blue Lagoon” and “Suddenly Susan” star wrote within the e-book, per Us.
Her memoir comes out Tuesday, and guarantees “remarkable candor” from Shields.
“Brooke [bares] all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, ” the e-book’s Amazon description says.
