NEW YORK — Brooke Shields is revealing many non-public and typically painful moments in her new memoir, together with that a physician as soon as carried out a vaginal rejuvenation process with out her consent.
The native New Yorker, 59, particulars the enraging expertise in “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman,” out Jan. 14.
Shields says that whereas she was in her 40s, her “wonderful” gynecologist advisable a discount to regulate the size of her labia, which had precipitated bleeding and chafing since she was a teen.
At her post-op checkup, the male plastic surgeon who carried out her operation knowledgeable her that “he threw in a little bonus” within the type of an “irreversible” rejuvenation, the ‘90s supermodel advised Us Weekly.
“It felt like such an invasion — such a bizarre, like, rape of some kind,” she recalled.
Vaginal rejuvenation can discuss with a number of corrective procedures, however on this case, Shields was subjected to vaginal tightening that she didn’t need or want.
“Nothing pointed toward this need to be tighter or smaller or firmer or younger, especially there,” Shields mentioned.
It wasn’t simply the physician’s gall that left her “dumbfounded,” however the truth that he “proudly explained to me that he, you know, threw in a little twofer.”
Regardless of the expertise leaving her outraged, Shields revealed that she opted to not pursue authorized motion in opposition to the physician or his follow, saying she didn’t need “anybody else telling me what I have to do.”
Although “embarrassed” to go public with “this very intimate information,” as she writes within the e-book, Shields says she’s doing so to additional the discourse round ladies’s well being.
“If we are to change the way we approach and talk about women’s health, then we need to bring up the uncomfortable but very real issues,” she writes. “Shame is no longer an option.”