A-Line: Celebrity StyleStill Nothing Between Brooke Shields and Her Calvins
Nothing -- not even motherhood or decades of aging -- gets between Brooke Shields and her Calvins.
The 45-year-old actress says she can still squeeze into the Calvin Klein jeans that made her famous 30 years ago in controversial TV commercials for the brand. In the iconic ad, the then-15-year-old, dressed in dark denim pants, a khaki shirt, a western belt, and flowing frizzy hair, murmurs: "You wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing."
That statement would still be true today.
Shields, now a married mom of two young daughters, revealed on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" that she's held onto a pair of the high-waisted jeans, and recently tried them on for old times' sake.
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"They didn't look pretty but they fit," the former model told DeGeneres in an appearance Wednesday. "I got those suckers zipped back up!"
Shields said her mother kept everything from her Calvin shoots, and she recently stumbled onto two pairs of those (in)famous jeans. One she donated to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the other she kept for herself.
"They came up TO HERE!" she said, motioning to her ribcage. "They were so high. And I looked like a sausage in them but I was going to get those zipped up if it was the last thing I did so I can say that I fit in them."
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The ads launched Shields to a new level of fame, and helped make Calvin Klein a household name in the process. Shields -- not of legal driving age, let alone voting age -- projected a youthful innocence in contrast with her sexy poses and tagline, transforming her into a Lolita figure and fantasy object for millions of male fans. Women, too, were drawn to her looks: many later copied her bushy eyebrows.
In 1980, the same year her controversial Calvin Klein ads hit the air, Shields was the youngest model (14 at the time; she turned 15 two months later) to grace the cover of Vogue magazine. Brooke's influence on fashion lives on. Nowadays, few consumers bat an eyelash when fashion lines such as American Apparel roll out another ad campaign featuring underage models.
"That was one of the first times where they had really sort of smart and also provocative television commercials," she said.
Provocative, yes. Smart? You be the judge. Here's the original 1980 spot, featuring Shields whistling "Oh My Darling Clementine":
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