Brooke Shields Has No Desire to Fit Into Those Calvin Klein Jeans From Her Controversial 80s Ad
Actress Brooke Shields, 54, reflects on her controversial 1980 Calvin Klein commercials.
In a new interview, she says that she recently found the jeans and is totally OK with not fitting into them.
The mother of two has been focusing on exercise after a partial knee replacement, and says she has more confidence now than ever.
It’s been about 40 years since Brooke Shields slipped on the original pair of jeans she wore in several controversial Calvin Klein commercials as a teen. The risqué denim ad ran in print and on-air in 1980. Then 15-year-old Shields wore skin-tight jeans while reading or laughing—and most famously—whistling before saying her iconic tagline: “You wanna know what comes between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”
Now, the mother of two says “I don’t have any desire to fit back into them.”
A post shared by Brooke Shields (@brookeshields) on Oct 26, 2017 at 7:55am PDT
Shields explained in an interview with Fox News that who she was then and who she is now are two entirely different people. While she grew up in the modeling and TV world, she admits that she wasn’t confident and believed she was never “skinny enough.”
At 54, she’s finally decided to embrace her body right here, right now. “When I was that age, I was built like a little boy,” she says. “I’ve had two children and I’ve grown into a more womanly shape that I feel comfortable in and that I’m proud of. I’m celebrating who I am now, not trying to get the body I had when I was 15.”
The Blue Lagoon actress said she actually found the widely-known pair of jeans recently. “I can get into them, but it looks painful. I think the last time I fit into them comfortably was probably while I was in ‘Wonderful Town’ on Broadway [in 2004]. They’re so high waisted,” she said.
Still, finding appreciation for her body—and recovering from a partial knee replacement—has inspired her to get back into fitness. By watching myself get through that and coming out so much stronger, I realized what I’m really capable of,” she says. “Now I’m thankful that I’m even capable of working out,” she told InStyle.
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Shields has even been posting her at-home workouts on social media. Due to an overwhelming positive response, she feels like it brings her a sense of community. “I’ve never been called a fitness enthusiast, but being in it with people has been the piece of social media that I’ve really appreciated,” she says. “It’s helped me feel a healthy responsibility to keep it up.”
On Instagram, the actress created a series of at-home workouts alongside her personal trainer, Ngo Okafor, using an exercise ball, pumping hand-held weights, and a heavy speaker to perform deadlifts. “Creativity is necessary,” she wrote in an Instagram post.
Through her newfound enjoyment of exercise, her message for other women is one she had to start believing herself. “Own your curves and strengths rather than trying to look like somebody else or be skinny,” she says. “I’d rather be strong and fit than anything else.”
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