Hi there, I'm Lale Arakoglu, 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 a city on her own.

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, right?

Because everybody recognizes you.

If you can find a way to be non-recognizable and still alone, you know, that's when you're

really experiencing something.

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 is it born? I know you've chatted with Traveller before. You told us that great story about

your trip to Antarctica, which we'll get into later. Yes. You were such a traveler and an icon,

and you have a new book coming out on January 14th.

I do.

Brooke Shields is not allowed to get old.

Thoughts on aging as a woman.

It's the cover.

There she is.

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