A “perverse” article a couple of pre-teen Brooke Shields has resurfaced on-line, sparking a mountain of shock on social media.
From the opening paragraph to the closing sentence, the actress – who was simply 12 when the article was written in 1978 – was hypersexualised within the piece revealed within the High Times, which disturbingly stays on the journal’s on-line archives to today.
“The most perfect nymphette in all creation has been found – in America. Her name is Brooke Shields,” learn the opening line, written by journalist Ed Dwyer.
“Brooke’s hair is elegant brown and clean, her skin pale and puritan, her eyes sinfully blue and her lean body just starting to curve into womanhood.”
The 57-year-old is at present trending after the latest launch of her two-part documentary, Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields, during which she admitted to feeling sexualised in Hollywood as a baby star. And articles like this added to her anxiousness, particularly when she was in comparison with actresses twice her age.
“She’s a sultry mix of all-American virgin and nascent wh**e,” the article continued. “She’s the hottest new young thing in movies since a smouldering pre-teen named Elizabeth Taylor stiffened up Louie Mayer’s cigar. She is only 12 years old and destined to be the sex symbol of 1964.”
And the descriptions obtained extra vulgar because the article went on.
“Unlike pugnacious Jodie Foster or puerile Tatum O’Neal, she’s the delicious stuff of teenage fantasies become flesh: barely old enough to want, but too young to get,” it learn. “Sweet temptation to all by blind men and eunuchs. She’s a sister, daughter, sex object, victim, lover, tramp. We can look forward to watching her fill out over the next decade. Brooke Shields is not just another pretty baby, baby.”
The decades-old article has now been slammed on social media, with many on social media shocked and shocked it was ever initially revealed.
“How the f**k was this even allowed?!” questioned one Twitter consumer, whereas one other stated: “Couldn’t get past the first paragraph of that article. Perverse.”
Yet one other commented, “Jesus Christ I feel really nauseous,” whereas others labelled the article, “sick and twisted”, “disgusting and “sickening”.
Source: www.news.com.au
