Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - Brooke Shields has said that she loves her “hot” husband Chris Henchy but sometimes pretends to be asleep to avoid getting intimate with him.
She made the revelation in her latest
memoir, Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging
as a Woman, which was published on Tuesday, January 14.
“I was talking to a doctor recently who
inquired about my sex life, and I explained to her that I have no desire and
I’m fine with it,” Shields, 59, wrote. “Turned out, she was not fine with
it.”
Shields wrote that she “had a fervent s£x
drive” when she was younger. “But I never felt like I could step into that
appetite in the way that I wanted to,” the actress added.
Shields detailed how losing her virginity,
and in turn, having s£x with previous boyfriends, impacted her relationship
with her late mom, Teri Shields.
“My connection with my boyfriend was a
personal affront to her, because having a man in my life in such a real way
meant that she was losing me,” she wrote. “Oh, how I wish I’d just let the lust
take over! But regrettably I was never able to do that.” This has
continued to play out in her marriage to Henchy, 60.
Shields and Henchy have been married since 2001. They share daughters Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18.
“Here I am, more than thirty-five years later, sometimes pretending I’m asleep when I know Chris is in the mood,” Shields admitted in the book. “That has nothing to do with Chris —he’s hot! He’s been working out at a boxing gym recently, and he looks incredible.”
Shields explained to readers that her lack
of s£x drive comes alongside all the “bodily s***” that she has experienced as
an ageing woman. She also noted that pretending to be asleep is “not great” but
she’s working on that.
After telling the doctor about her lack of
s£x, Shields recalled being “on the receiving end of a lecture about how
important s£x is to a relationship.”
The actress also admitted that because of a previous surgery, s£x has become
“painful.”
Shields told Us
Weekly exclusively earlier this month about a plastic surgeon giving her
a vaginal rejuvenation surgery without her consent.
“For me
to fully enjoy s£x at this point, I need my lotions and potions, the right
sleepwear (maybe calling it sleepwear is contributing to the problem), my
special pillow, and maybe a tequila so I can relax,” she wrote, noting “again”
that Henchy is “not at all the problem.”
“Listen, there’s nothing wrong with using whatever you need!” she stated.
“Whatever it takes.”
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