Brooke Shields Was A Late Bloomer
Brooke Shields says that when she was younger her self-esteem wasn't great, and that's why it took her until she was 22 years old to lose her virginity!
"I think I would have had sex a lot earlier! I think I would have lost my virginity earlier than I did at 22.
I had the public and this pressure, and I wish I had just gotten it
over with in the beginning, when it was sort of OK. I think I could
have been much more in touch with myself."
She adds that if she had ended up having sex earlier that things would have been different.
"I think I wouldn't have had issues with weight -- I carried this
protective 20 pounds [in college]," she says. "It was all connected.
And to me, that's a health regret."
Hmmm, do you think that sex and weight are that directly connected?
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This doesn't make sense. She's making it sound like it's so bad that she waited. Like it's her biggest regret in life. But there is absolutely nothing wrong with waiting.
She's hilarious and so down-to-earth! Yes, waiting too long makes it seem like such a huge deal when it really isn't, and this can really be an anguish and affect your self-esteem.
This kind of talk is refreshing after all the Hayden Panettiere and Bristol Pallin waiting bullsh*t. Juste use protection please.
I can dispute this. I lost my virginity to my husband when I was 25 on our wedding night and you had better damn well believe that I kept my body in tip top shape when I was in the dating pool. There is nothing wrong with waiting and for her to make a correlation between weight and virginity is rediculous. You know if she were a teenage hollywood whore when she was younger she'd be talking about how she regrets it now. I like her, but this is pure crap.
She's saying that weight and virginity were connected FOR HER, NOT for everyone. There are a number of women, including myself unfortunately, who are extremely insecure with themselves. They hide behind baggy clothes, or in some cases weight. Your experiences may mirror hers or those of other women.
I think it is an interesting perspective and I am sure she is not the only one who experienced something similar. On another note, how cute is her pale little girl? She is almost translucent!!
I think it is an interesting perspective and I am sure she is not the only one who experienced something similar. On another note, how cute is her pale little girl? She is almost translucent!!
i waited until i was 21 but it had nothing to do with weight. frankly i was the only black girl in my circle of friends and went to an all girls high school so there weren't many options for me at the time. got a lot of "you're cute. if you were white i'd date you." that added to the fact that my mom told me she'd kill me and the nuns told me i'd go to hell, so sex didn't seem like something i felt like rushing into. i never had the "everybody is doing it mentality. quite the opposite. i was a virginity SNOB. it made m very popular. i was like...uncharted territory and everybody wanted to be the first to plant the flag. i had a LOT of dates...frustrated dates...but dates none the less. I met a nice guy sophmore year and thought i was in love. he broke my hymen then broke my heart. i don't think i could have taken that kind of stress and heartache when i was younger. i'm really glad i waited and i PRAY my daughter does the same. teenage sex creeps me out. eww!
ok. the guy who broke your hymen was not a nice guy. He was one of those other guys who wanted to pop it, but this one, outsmarted. ... once he got it he.... SEE YA! in a nice way of course. To this day, he is probably still walkin around knowin his dong did DAMAGE.... you gave him PERMANENT Penis Self esteem. :)
ok. the guy who broke your hymen was not a nice guy. He was one of those other guys who wanted to pop it, but this one, outsmarted. ... once he got it he.... SEE YA! in a nice way of course. To this day, he is probably still walkin around knowin his dong did DAMAGE.... you gave him PERMANENT Penis Self esteem. :)
Call me old-fashioned ... but 22 still sounds awfully young to me! I, too, was a "late bloomer" and I don't regret it at all. She almost sounds like she's trying to be "cool" or apologize for something here? It doesn't make sense to me ... would she want her two little girls saying the same thing when they are older?!! Don't think so ...
i remember her being 28 and saying she was still a virgin,anybody else remembers that??
sex is over rated
LOL!!
But her madness was already discovered, folks!!
I guarantee, I'd gladly have helped her out out in her pre"dic"ament back then, had I known she needed it! And that goes for all you hot young models/ movie stars nowdays, too! And just because a guy doesn't leech on to a girl after having sex with her, doesn't mean he didn't have an appreciation of her as a person, love does not mean having to say "forever". P.S. I love you, Brooke! P.S.S. Cute kid!
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