Women Who Travel Podcast: Brooke Shields on Gaining Agency and Power Through Travel
23.01.2025 - 21:11
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Brooke Shields has spent most of her life traveling the world for work—but until recently, she’d never traveled solo. In this week’s episode, the actor chats with Lale about a recent trip to Florence that changed all that, her most memorable movie locations, building confidence as a traveler, and what she hopes readers will take away from her new book Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old.
Lale Arikoglu: Hi there. I'm Lale Arikoglu, and I am very excited to be talking today to actor, model and icon, Brooke Shields, who's filmed all around the world for movies like Blue Lagoon, Daisy Winters, and more recently Mother of the Bride. Now she has a new book out all about her next stage of her life and career. I chat to Brooke about some of the themes she explores as well as family vacations and her recent and very first solo travel experience and what it was like to finally walk around the city on her own.
Brooke Shields: What was very interesting, it being one of the first times I'd ever been alone in a foreign place and the aloneness of that period was huge. When you're famous or recognizable, I should say, you're really never alone, because everybody recognizes you. If you can find a way to be non-recognizable and still alone, that's when you're really experiencing something.
LA: More about how that time in Florence empowered Brooke's confidence as a traveler later. First though, how her book is about gaining agency and power in the prime of life. It's called Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman. So how was it born? I know you've chatted with Traveler before, you told us that great story about your trip to Antarctica, which we'll get into later.
BS: Yes.
LA: You are such a traveler and an icon, and you have a new book coming out on January 14th.
BS: I do.
LA: Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman.
BS: That's the cover.
LA: There she is.
BS: I'm very excited.
LA: It's a gorgeous cover and a wonderful way to start the new year. Who's the book aimed at? Is it aimed at women of all ages and what do you want people who read it to take away?
BS: It's aimed at women, I'm going to say over 40. When your world starts to shift in a way that is rather unprecedented because you don't have a context for it. You spend all these decades finishing school, finishing this, going to do that, getting married, if that's what you want, having kids, if that's what you want, all these things that somehow they have a timeframe or a biological limitation, and then you find yourself in this era, where I'm in right now, I'm 59, so that it