Reviews - Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on aging as a woman

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Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on aging as a woman

Brooke Shields

3.9 AVERAGE

stephmac18's review against another edition

4.0

funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

kaydub23's review against another edition

3.25

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Encouraging read. Definitely feel like women thrive after 40-50 bc you stop being dragged down by society. Was an interesting read to hear someone with such a bizarre background, thrust into Hollywood in such a toxic way as she was.

Audiobook pet peeve: she mispronounces ‘affect’ every time it’s used as a verb (says ‘aff-ect’ instead of ‘uh-fect’)

Overall - was positive. Some of the anecdotes reinforced to me the ways that younger generations (especially gen Z) are freeing themselves from some of the everyday pressures and struggles than women of gen x/boomers were facing culturally.

Like instead of being polite to men being inappropriate/assholes/predatory/judging, gen z might just go ‘eww’ or say ‘are you okay’ and dismiss the loser as not worth their time.
Also re: enjoying your ‘nice’ clothes. We don’t get hung up on the nice stuff like our boomer parents (the china you can’t touch, furniture you can’t sit on, etc). Only live once, use it! No space for extra clutter anyway

Anyway was light read