Brooke Shields On Building Confidence, Resilience, and Maintaining An Empowered Life
The Bossticks
Dear Media
4.4 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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#976: Join us as we sit down with Brooke Shields – actress, model, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and cultural icon. From iconic roles in Pretty Baby, The Blue Lagoon, and Endless Love to Broadway, television, and bestselling books, Brooke has remained one of the most influential and recognizable women in entertainment for decades. Expanding into entrepreneurship, Brooke recently launched Commence, a hair wellness brand designed for women over 40 focused on scalp and hair health. Alongside her career, she has remained a vocal advocate for women's issues, mental health awareness, and arts education. In this episode, Brooke opens up about growing up in the spotlight, why education always came first, her experience with postpartum depression, navigating motherhood and longevity, and how she's empowering women to embrace every stage of life while raising confident, resilient daughters.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Bostics, starring Lauren Bostic and Michael Bostick. |
| 0:07.5 | Together, they are the Bostics. |
| 0:15.0 | She's an actress, a model, a best-selling author. I'm a huge fan, an entrepreneur and a cultural icon. She's also a mother of two. |
| 0:24.5 | Brooke Shields, I mean, it can't get better than Brooke Shields. She is so multifaceted and she's truly |
| 0:32.1 | had such longevity in the space. To me, she's remained one of the most iconic and recognizable women |
| 0:39.8 | in the entertainment world. I have followed her career forever, and I'm so excited to welcome |
| 0:47.1 | the one, the only, Brooke Shields to the show. I told you off air. I have wanted you to come on |
| 0:53.9 | the show for so long. I'm a big fan. I've read all three of your books. Thank you so much. They're stacked over there. Thank you. Yes, you have. And I told you've had quite the life. I mean, wow. Yeah, I've been around a long time. So I guess I'd love to like sort of tell your story on this show and just kind of |
| 1:12.5 | give the audience a full perspective. When is the first moment that you knew that you wanted to be in show |
| 1:18.3 | business? Was there an epiphany? Well, considering I was working since I was 11 months old, |
| 1:23.6 | not quite sure I had the proper perspective then. |
| 1:31.9 | You know, mom, get me out of diapers and get me in showbiz. |
| 1:40.0 | So I think it really wasn't until I had made movies and I had sort of gone to college and I'd satisfied that part of what I really knew I always wanted and needed in my life. |
| 1:46.0 | And then it was after college that I just thought, okay, this is really what I'm going to pursue, |
| 1:53.0 | because I've taken the four years, I've stepped away, I've had a life, I've got great friends, |
| 1:59.0 | I had a great education, And those are things that I just |
| 2:01.7 | didn't want to miss out on. And it wasn't until I then started applying that sort of knowledge to |
| 2:08.6 | how wonder how it would look if I researched roles differently or if I, you know, kind of went |
| 2:15.6 | into the acting world |
| 2:18.5 | from a different perspective, not just doing it |
| 2:21.1 | because other people want me to. |
| 2:23.2 | 11 months old? |
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