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Brooke Shields on being sexualized as a child star: 'Hollywood is predicated on eating its young'
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Brooke Shields opened up about being sexually objectified as a child star. She said that Hollywood is "predicated on eating its young."
On Friday, Shields marked International Women's Day as she appeared alongside Meghan Markle and Katie Couric on the SXSW panel, "Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen." During the panel discussion, she weighed on the "sexualization" of young women, especially in our country. Ashley Hume is an entertainment writer for Fox News Digital. Story tips can be sent to ashley.hume@fox.com and on Twitter: @ashleyhume
"I was at the center of it," Shields said. "And I was promoting it and I was doing it."
She continued, "And I was lucky because I was surrounded by a very strong mom. I never did move to Hollywood. I always went to regular school."