It was less than a year later that her mother, realising Brooke's star was on the rise, took Gross to court to sue him for $1 million in damaged over the nude images of Brooke. Like Brooke's first film Pretty Baby, The Blue Lagoon featured substantial sexual content involving the then-14-year-old actress. The falloutĪt the time the photos were published Brooke was just a schoolgirl, but two years later she starred in her first feature film and by 1980 she had gained international fame, starring on the cover of Vogue and in the film The Blue Lagoon. It's unclear how old the girls in the other photos were. The issue she appeared in reportedly also contained three other pages featuring photos of "nymphets", defined as "attractively and sexually mature young girls". The publication included Brooke in 1976, printing two naked photos of her 10-year-old body, one splashed across a two-page spread. Released as a series of books that promised "surprising and sensuous images of women", Sugar and Spice was marketed as more artistic than its counterpart, though it still contained plenty of images of nude women. Playboy's 'Sugar and Spice' paperback from 1976. The photos of Brooke were shot for Playboy -owned Sugar and Spice, which was more toned-down than the true Playboy publication. He added that the images weren't meant to be pornographic, but conceded Brooke "was supposed to look like a sexy woman". Gross told the Daily Telegraph of one of those photos in 2009: "The photo has been infamous from the day I took it and I intended it to be." Brooke Shields was photographed naked when she was just 10-years-old. The 10-year-old was then directed to pose standing and sitting in a bathtub, with two images showing Brooke full-frontal and completely exposed. RELATED: The glamorous, complex legend of Marilyn Monroe
It seems Terri's dreams of her daughter's fame inspired her to agree to the photoshoot, which saw Brooke painted in heavy eye makeup and lipstick and covered in oil.
Terri declared her desire for Brooke to go into show business just five days after the little girl was born in 1965, saying: "She's the most beautiful child and I'm going to help her with her career." Brooke Shields and her mother (and manager) Teri Shields in New York, 1978.
Surprisingly, her mother Terri Shields was on board with the shoot, as she had long dreamed of her daughter becoming a star.
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