Brooke Shields she never had a child with her ex-husband, Andre Agassi — the decision turned out to be a blessing in disguise for her.
“I’m glad I didn’t get pregnant with my first husband because that would have been a disaster,” Shields, 59, wrote in her latest memoir. Brooke Shields must not age: Thoughts on aging as a womanpublished on Tuesday, January 14. “When we divorced, he made that clear.”
Shields claimed in her book that Agassi, 54, told her to “be thankful we didn’t have kids” when they broke up “because I wouldn’t have made this easy for you”.
“Well, thank you for that little thing, I thought,” Shields quipped in the memoir. “You just made this transition so much easier!”
Shields was married to Agassi from 1997 to 1999, and has spoken extensively about their tumultuous relationship. referring to it repeatedly in this book. (Agassi, ex professional tennis playerhe was married to Steffi Graf since 2001)
“One of the reasons I married Andrea was because I liked being in a relationship with someone more famous than me,” Shields explained elsewhere in the memoir. “After a lifetime of always being in the spotlight, it was a relief to be able to fade into the background a bit. And he was a gallant fellow and I liked that.”
Shields, on the other hand, called her marriage a “controlling, rigid relationship” and shared a discussion she had with Agassi about her body.
“When I would confess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.’ However, when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ I could never have expected his answer,” Shields wrote, noting that she spoke of herself as pregnant.
Agassi’s response, according to Shields, was, “I love you too much to let you get big and fat!”
Shields admitted that this was an “unfair question” but she “definitely did not” expect such an answer.
“I started spinning a little,” she continued. “But we all know how that relationship turned out, so let’s move on.”
After their divorce, Shields moved on with Chris Henchy. She met Henchy in 1999 “at the gym on the Warner Bros. lot,” while she was still married to Agassi.
“We became friends because we saw each other at that gym from time to time — I was working on Suddenly Susan, he was writing for a show on the lot — but we didn’t start dating until the following year, after I’m Divorced,” she wrote.
Shields and Henchy married in 2001 they share two daughtersRowan, 21, and Grier, 18.
Brooke Shields must not age it’s out now.