As long as I'm growing, I've won. As long as I'm enjoying myself, that's huge.
At Princeton I gained a great deal of pleasure from success in my classes. knowing that I could accomplish those things, and I realized that my success was directly proportionate to the work I put in.
Cabaret was a very dark, dark play to do, and I felt there was validity in that.
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.
Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth.
Even when you're feeling, so to speak, better, it's still really hard. So, it wasn't as if I was a new me.
Have faith in your own thoughts.
I beat myself up a lot all the time about my performances.
I could have easily worked with children and their education.
I could never, ever have an abortion.
I don't believe Hollywood had any affect on my ability to function or not function within my depression.
I don't have a big master plan. I have to be moved by a story. There's no soap box I have to stand on.
I don't think I actually made the correlation to beauty as much as I made it to fame.
I feel too young to write a memoir of my life.
I had a separate family with my father, then I had my mom.
I had lost my first child, and they never really know what the problem is.
I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
I have avoided tennis for a long time because there was a great deal of pressure for me to play tennis. My dad played tennis.
I have so much further to go in my career and in my personal life.
I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
I know I'm a shiksa but I'm telling you, I got the other side, too.
I need to know that I can really be myself and be accepted.
I played one pro celebrity - Chris Evert.
I remember staring at her and saying, Come on, let's feel it. Where's the birds? Where's the fairy dust? Come on. I was frantic because it was right there in front of me, and I had nothing.
I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.
I wanted to be fluent in another language. French literature interested me.
I was born and raised in Manhattan. And didn't go out to California and sort of go that route.
I was one of the top three out of over 300 kids in psych class. Once I got a certain level of respect, then the kids were like bodyguards.
I was Time's '80s look, which didn't mean anything to me in high school, you know?
I wasn't going to waltz in there and say, I'm famous, and this is why I've been accepted to this school, and this is why you have to give me straight A's.
I'll never allow myself to become the hunted.
I'm able to now be the type of actress that I've always believed I had the ability to be.
I'm completely beside myself when I think about you being a new mom.
I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has never suffered from postpartum depression.
I'm in constant motion. I don't know how to stop. I simply take everything on and I don't know yet how to have peace in my own heart.
I'm just starting to realize the type of work that I want to do. Not everyone can fit into the sitcom world because it's so fast-paced, but it feels comfortable to me.
I'm stunned of the capacity that I had to do damage to our relationship. It took a really long time for him to want to have another child. He was terrified.
I've always been the elephant. It was awkward in high school.
I've always wanted more than one child. That was never really a question.
I've been told that no matter what I achieve, I make time for my friendships and I don't act like my own time or goals are more important than theirs.
I've got some really good years ahead of me for work.
If any good can come of Mr. Cruise's ridiculous rant, let's hope that it gives much-needed attention to a serious disease..
If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed?
It all seemed like I was failing everywhere I looked.
It just seemed like it would never get better. The light would never come in my heart again.
It takes me a few days of being in France to really start to get it back without having to conjugate in my head.
It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.
It was so difficult for me to have my first child.
It was, how can I fade so far into the background that I no longer exist? How can I just not be anymore?
Modeling is the world that I feel most welcome in.
My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
My mom has not been my manager since the very early '90s. We have no working relationship. We speak many times a week and see each other quite often.
My mom was the pit bull. She was so protective, I didn't see a lot of the stuff that was going on.
My relationships all had this sort of short shelf life.
My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's.
Pressures at Princeton were very high and you needed the support of your friends. In college, you gain weight, your skin breaks out. You need a place to feel safe.
Pretty Baby was very controversial.
Princeton was the first place where I learned to work at something from the inside out, instead of having things work from the outside toward me.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Some couples have been forced to go out of state to adopt children, it seems so archaic. It's such a shame.
Suddenly Susan was on the air for four years. Most shows don't even get picked up for a season. I just did the best I could. I'm proud of that.
'Suddenly Susan' is my life.
The difficulty of IVF or of any fertility issues is the hope and the shattered hope, the dream that it might happen this time and then it doesn't happen.
The drugs, along with weekly therapy sessions, are what saved me.
The feelings I was conscious of revolved around my being a mother, having had a baby, my baby herself, and the monumental change that resulted from giving birth.
The medication and hormone treatment I underwent helped throw my system off balance, and the failed attempts depressed me as well.
The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.
The thing about Broadway, they always welcome you with open arms.
The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
There is such a stigma around not being attached to your baby and happy with motherhood. Any picture less than an ideal one seems to be cause for shame.
To have my approval of myself be enough is very new for me and I appreciate it.
Too many people use abortion as a form of birth control. And that's very wrong. I could never, ever have an abortion.
We are so quick to define family based on biological fact. I think our definition of family is different now than it was all those years ago.
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.
You start not being happy for all the people having babies. And people stop inviting you to baby showers, because they think it is too hard for you.
Brooke gave birth to her second daughter, Grier Hammond Henchy on April 19, 2006. Grier arrived in the morning, weighing 7 pounds (3.18 kg.).
Her Chinese Astrological sign is a Snake.
Brooke: Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
Brooke: I'm always amazed when people assume things about me - that foul language must upset me, or someone's being gay must upset me. They think, 'O-o-oh, she's the most celebrated virgin.' And really, I was surrounded by such an eclectic group of people my whole life.
Brooke: If my jeans could talk, would I be embarrassed? If my jeans could talk, I'd be ruined.
Her autobiography, On My Own was written when she was sixteen.
She was a cheerleader in high school.
In 1978, 1980 and 1996, she was chosen as one of the most intriguing people of the year by People Magazine.
Her marriage to Andre Agassi was annulled so she could get married in the Catholic Church.
Her autobiography, On My Own was written when she was sixteen
Every year from 1981 to 1984, she won a People's Choice Award in the category of Favorite Young Performer.
She has the same birthday as Joe Namath, Colin Farrell and Clint Eastwood.
Brooke's mother, Maria Theresia Schmonn, married her father Francis Alexander Shields in 1964. Maria was born in California and is most noted as Brooke's manager as Terri Shields. Terri has managed Brooke's career since birth.
Brooke has three sisters, Marina, Olimpia and Christina.
Brooke's grandfather was Francis Xavier Shields, who was an American tennis player. His accomplishments include being a Wimbledon finalist, being ranked eight times in the U.S. Top Ten, including #1 in 1933 and #2 in 1930. Francis also appeared in seven films in the early 1970s. In 1940 he married the Italian Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi and they had two children, including Brooke's father Francis Alexander Shields.
Brooke's nickname is "Brookie".
Brooke is currently pregnant and expecting her second child with husband
During Brooke's spat with former co-star
Based on her battles with postpartum depression, Brooke wrote the book "Down Came the Rain : My Journey Through Postpartum Depression." The book is a brave memoir that doesn't shy away from Brooke's most difficult moments, including her thoughts of suicide.
Brooke and her husband
On April 19, 1997, Brooke married tennis star
Brooke has had great success in both television and film, but when she attended Princeton University, she tried her hand at the theater by joining the Princeton Triangle Club theatre troupe. This prestigious musical-comedy troupe has such notable alumni as
After 18 films and numerous television appearances, Brooke made move to sitcoms when she starred in the NBC sticom "
Although Brooke had much success as a child with top fashion photographers, her first notoriety came when she starred in Louis Malle's controversial film, Pretty Baby in 1978. In the film Brooke, then 12 (and possibly 11 when the film was shot) played a child living in a brothel and she had several nude scenes.
Brooke made national headlines with a television ad campaign for Calvin Klein jeans in 1980. In the ad, Brooks says the now infamous line, "Want to know what gets between me and my Calvins? Nothing." In addition, she was also featured in several print ads featuring the same outfit from the TV spot.
Brooke is a Princeton graduate in French Literature. She is also a second cousin to
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