A review by kaydub23
Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on aging as a woman by Brooke Shields

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

3.25

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