A moment in the documentary “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” that epitomizes the actress’s experience of fame calls back to her time as a Princeton undergrad in the ’80s. Shields — whose image was in the public sphere from the time she was a baby, when Francesco Scavullo photographed her for an Ivory soap ad — poured her soul into a self-help book about starting college. She wrote about how lonely and difficult it was separating from her mother and how she felt so much pressure to succeed at everything.
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