SHIELDS OPENS UP ABOUT UNDERAGE NUDE PHOTO
BROOKE SHIELDS is pleased the photographer who snapped a nude photo of he r as a child failed to profit from the image, calling his financial strug gles "justice".
The Blue Lagoon star posed naked for snapper Garry Gross as a pre-teen, and she alleges he tried to make money by selling the controversial imag e when she turned 16.
Shields subsequently attempted to stop Gross from using the picture, bu t a court ruled the shot didn’t breach child pornography laws.
Artist Richard Prince later made one of Gross’ images famous by taking a photo of the original and featuring it in his own work.
And Shields, now 44, insists she’s pleased Gross never profited from th e controversial picture.
She tells Easy Living magazine, "Everything that happened that felt sor did (about the shoot) happened after the fact. My kids walk around naked all the time, and I was nine - I wasn’t uncomfortable doing it. When I wa s 16, I wouldn’t have done it. That guy (original photographer Garry Gros s) waited until I was 16 before he decided to publish it - he tried to ta ke this famous person and sell her out.
"My favourite part about the whole story is that Richard Prince photogr aphed that picture and made millions of dollars, and the guy that tried t o screw me to begin with is a dog walker, and has no money. That’s justic e in a really weird way. One day I’ll have to explain it to my kids, but I’ll figure it out."
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