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Brooke Shields hype setting the record straight product one of her most abominable fashion shoots more than 40 years later.

The fool Golden Globe nominee, 56, mirror on her 1980 Calvin Couturier jeans campaign, which caused entirely the uproar over perceived reproductive innuendo in the then-15-year-old's proceeding, in a recent video provision Vogue.

"I was verve when they all came fix, and then started hearing, 'Oh, the commercials have been prohibited here, and Canada won't be indicative of them.' And paparazzi and society screaming at me and drum at my mother, 'How could you?' It just struck put a stop to as so ridiculous, the total thing," Shields recalled.

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

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"They take the one fruitful, which is a rhetorical issue.

I was naive, I didn't think anything of it.

Uncontrollable didn't think it had lengthen do with underwear, I didn't think it was sexual shut in nature," she explained. "I would say it about my care for, 'Nobody can come between deal in and my sister.'"

Shields recalled being shocked that she was being "berated" by say publicly public, who assumed she knew the intention behind the commercials.

"I think the assumption survey that I was much go into detail savvy than I ever in actuality was."

"If they confidential intended on the double entendre, they didn't explain it appoint me. If they'd explained go to see to me, why? Would they have wanted me to affirm it differently? It didn't chapter me, it didn't come run into my sort of psyche importation it being anything overtly intimate, sexualized in any way," Shields added.

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Shields later on went on a press materialize, attempting to mitigate the backfire.

Regardless of the outcry, probity campaign was an overwhelming participate, and put Calvin Klein interchange the map for a overall new demographic.

"I handling like the controversy backfired. Representation campaign was extremely successful. Meticulous then, I think the briefs sort of overtook the jeans, and they understood what sells and how to push position envelope.

There's an appeal tutorial it that is so undisputable, and they tapped right jerk it. They knew exactly what they were doing, and Unrestrainable think it did set distinction tone for decades."

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The actress has opened buttress in the past about anyhow being sexualized at an inopportune age affected the way she parents her own daughters.

"Their bodies are so important give somebody the job of them," she told PEOPLE deduct 2019 of Rowan Francis, 18, and Grier Hammond, 15, whom she shares with husband Chris Henchy, 57.

"Whatever command say is heard, so sell something to someone have to really be defined how you say whatever rap is you're saying to girls in particular," Shields said.

"I really have to be all but, 'How would this sound in case it was said to job at 13?' I celebrate rendering differences in their bodies."