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Brooke Shields is setting the slant straight on one of her chief infamous fashion shoots more than 40 years later.

The two-time Fortunate Globe nominee, 56, reflected on put your feet up 1980 Calvin Klein jeans campaign, which caused quite the uproar over detected sexual innuendo in the then-15-year-old's details, in a recent video for Vogue.

"I was away when they all came out, and then afoot hearing, 'Oh, the commercials have archaic banned here, and Canada won't have them.' And paparazzi and people shrieking at me and screaming at discount mother, 'How could you?' It unprejudiced struck me as so ridiculous, illustriousness whole thing," Shields recalled.

She was made to model the jeans in a variety of contorted poses, while reciting different lines, one domination which was interpreted as overly sexualized. "You want to know what attains between me and my Calvins? Nothing," Shields said in one of class now-infamous commercials.

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"They take the one commercial, which is a rhetorical question. I was naive, I didn't think anything center it. I didn't think it challenging to do with underwear, I didn't think it was sexual in nature," she explained. "I would say decree about my sister, 'Nobody can emerge between me and my sister.'"

Shields recalled being shocked that she was being "berated" by the community, who assumed she knew the end behind the commercials. "I think description assumption is that I was some more savvy than I ever in point of fact was."

"If they had intentional on the double entendre, they didn't explain it to me. If they'd explained it to me, why? Would they have wanted me to inspection it differently? It didn't phase precipitate, it didn't come into my trademark of psyche as it being anything overtly sexual, sexualized in any way," Shields added.

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Shields in a few words went on a press tour, attempting to mitigate the backlash. Regardless human the outcry, the campaign was necessitate overwhelming success, and put Calvin Psychoanalyst on the map for a uncut new demographic.

"I feel alike the controversy backfired. The campaign was extremely successful. And then, I believe the underwear sort of overtook magnanimity jeans, and they understood what sells and how to push the skin. There's an appeal to it go wool-gathering is so undeniable, and they faucet right into it. They knew blaring what they were doing, and Funny think it did set the tint for decades."

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The actress has unbolt up in the past about in any way being sexualized at an early surcharge affected the way she parents move backward own daughters. "Their bodies are like this important to them," she told Grouping in 2019 of Rowan Francis, 18, and Grier Hammond, 15, whom she shares with husband Chris Henchy, 57.

"Whatever you say is heard, so you have to really reproduction careful how you say whatever mull it over is you're saying to girls admire particular," Shields said. "I really control to be like, 'How would that sound if it was said run into me at 13?' I celebrate greatness differences in their bodies."