Once one of the world’s top models, Brooke Shields says she sees a lot of changes in the business these days — and not all for the better.
In an interview with The New Potato website, the 52-year-old actress/model/entrepreneur doesn’t think she would have been a good fit in today’s modelling landscape.
“I don’t think I could handle it now. I feel like there seemed to be more individuality when I was doing it,” she tells the site. “Maybe I was in a different realm, but it was more about hard work when I was doing it. You were only successful if you were really, really willing to work really hard and be on time and not have an attitude and not demand anything and sort of suffer.”
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She points to a sense of “entitlement” she sees in today’s crop of models. “Not that suffering is a good thing, because they really didn’t care about the models, but I notice now the entitlement,” she adds. “You want to say, ‘Hey kid, you’re going to have to really stand out to last. You won’t last if you have this attitude!’ So, I notice that the models themselves have changed. There seem to be so many more.”
However, it comes to “Instagram-famous models,” Shields had kind words to offer for Karlie Kloss and Gigi Hadid. “She’s so sweet,” says Shields of Kloss, “and Gigi is so sweet.”
She also bemoans the lack of individuality in today’s modelling industry in comparison to how things were in the 1980s.
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“People now are trying to be the next Kate [Moss] or the next so-and-so. People never became something by trying to be someone else; Kate was just Kate! I was just there,” says Shields.
“Cindy [Crawford] was her own thing,: she adds. “All of these girls, we were all just different. Claudia [Schiffer] was her own thing; Christy was her own thing. Brinkley and Turlington were individuals. I don’t see that as much because everything now seems to be derivative.”
