Brooke Shields - part 2
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 June 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Having spent much of her life meeting other people's expectations, Brooke Shields is now defining success on her own terms. In part two of this intimate conversation, she reflects on aging, creative control, second acts, and why her popular mystery series "You're Killing Me" feels uniquely aligned with where she is today. Plus, find out how a broken bone led Brooke to one of the most important realizations of her life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Hey, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:19.9 | Welcome back to the second portion of our conversation with our favorite gal, |
| 0:25.8 | Brooke Shields. |
| 0:26.6 | I think there's something so special about finding your friendships as women and certainly |
| 0:34.9 | something that I think I cherish especially in our, you know, |
| 0:39.7 | crazy line of work. |
| 0:41.7 | And you, you are one of the people who lives in the way that I feel like I want to. |
| 0:48.8 | I have looked up to you likewise for so long because you make sure sure despite, you know, being the face, |
| 0:59.1 | you know, being the icon, like being all of the things that sometimes women are told |
| 1:07.1 | they're only allowed to be. You add all of your full humanity onto it. And you've, |
| 1:13.3 | you've shared work about reclaiming ownership of your story. You know, your, your books, as I mentioned, |
| 1:20.6 | have just been so beautiful. You've, you've lived through moments of celebrity culture and also helped us process it. |
| 1:30.3 | And you've made us, I think, think about those things more deeply. |
| 1:35.1 | And I'm curious how you feel about fame now. |
| 1:39.2 | Do you feel like for you it's healthier? |
| 1:41.6 | Do you feel like it's a ruse? |
| 1:43.4 | Like, what is your relationship? You've been |
| 1:46.2 | famous for 50 years. Like, what is that? Um, you know, so that's a question actually that |
| 1:53.8 | it's surprising me, not now, because it's been coming up. It's surprising that it has been |
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