SPORTOCHICK’S MUSINGS: This is an audio that I will listen to again and again.

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Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old
Thoughts on Aging as a Woman
by Brooke Shields

Narrated by Brooke Shields

Pub Date Jan 14, 2025
Macmillan Audio

DESCRIPTION

This program is read by the author.

From the face of a generation comes a voice of experience, honesty and truth. Brooke Shields narrates a powerful account of her aging experience. A master storyteller, Brooke delivers a remarkable narration with humor and grace. Be prepared to listen, laugh and learn as she flips the script on the idea of what it means for a woman to grow older.

Brooke Shields has spent a lifetime in the public eye. Growing up as a child actor and model, her every feature was scrutinized, her every decision judged. Today Brooke faces a different kind of scrutiny: that of being a “woman of a certain age.”

And yet, for Brooke, the passage of time has brought freedom. At fifty-nine, she feels more comfortable in her skin, more empowered and confident than she did decades ago in those famous Calvin Kleins. Now, in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, she’s changing the narrative about women and aging.

This is an era, insists Brooke, when women are reclaiming agency and power, not receding into the shadows. These are the years when we get to decide how we want to live—when we get to write our own stories.

With remarkable candor, Brooke bares all, painting a vibrant and optimistic picture of being a woman in the prime of her life, while dismantling the myths that have, for too long, dimmed that perception. Sharing her own life experiences with humor and humility, and weaving together research and reporting, Brooke takes aim at the systemic factors that contribute to age-related bias.

By turns inspiring, moving, and galvanizing, Brooke’s honesty and vulnerability will resonate with women everywhere, and spark a new conversation about the power and promise of midlife.

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books.

REVIEW

This book is a must read for everyone. I even think men should read it for insight regarding women they love and their struggles. Author Brooke Shields has written and put together a great book that touches on so many topics that women deal with throughout their lives. She does it with humour, bluntness and fairness. I had no idea how funny she was and I must say my respect for her grew with this book. Though to be fair I have always loved her.

Within the storyline of this book you will find a part of yourself but listening to the audio you will feel like you are sitting across the table from your BFF disussing your struggles and truimphs. It was very rewarding and fulfilling to listen to.

This is an audio that I will listen to again and again.

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

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