Biography of Brooke Shields
Her book, “Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression”, takes a hard, honest look at what she and many other women experience after childbirth.

She still lives in New York, and is still sought after for work in movies, television, and on stage. She also managed to work on a degree from Princeton University. Could this movie even be made today? It was considered risky and controversial in 1978. She has been open about using fertility treatments to become pregnant with their daughter Rowan, born in 2003.

When suffering debilitating depression after the birth of her daughter, she made the decision to put her feelings down on paper.


Brooke Shields trivia

  • Her brother, John D’Orsay, is the lead guitarist in Blind.

  • Attended San Diego State University.

  • Began her career as a model, working primarily in Japan.
  • The hardcover version of the novel “Evalore” by Eva Jones has a close-up photo of Brooke on the dust jacket. Copies of the novel with the dust jacket intact are collectables. ISBN 0397012594.
  • Chosen as Time magazine’s Face of the ’80s.

Images of Brooke Shields