Brooke Shields recalls how she was sexualized as a child actor, slams Hollywood for 'eating its young'



Actress Brooke Shields blasted Hollywood for allowing her to be sexualized as a child actor and said the entertainment industry is "predicated on eating its young."

At just 11 years old, Shields made her cinematic debut in the movie "Alice, Sweet Alice." A year later, Shields starred as a child prostitute in the controversial film "Pretty Baby." Shields appeared nude in the movie and kissed 27-year-old actor Keith Carradine.

As a teen, Shields was cast in extremely sexualized roles for "Blue Lagoon" and "Endless Love."

Now, Brooke is speaking out about how she was sexualized by Hollywood when she was a child actor.

On Friday, Shields was joined by journalist Katie Couric, Meghan Markle, sociologist Nancy Wang Yuen, and journalist Errin Haines as keynote speakers at a SXSW panel titled: "Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives: How Women Lead On and Off the Screen."

"There was this sexualization of young women and I was at the center of it. I was promoting it," Shields said. "I was surrounded by a strong mom, had a community around me, I did not become the type of statistic that Hollywood created."

The 58-year-old actress said, "Hollywood is predicated on eating its young."

She also noted that Hollywood dismisses actresses over the age of 40.

"At 58 you're too old to be the ingénue but not quite the granny yet," Shields stated. "I find my reaction is to instead of getting angry, find and ferret out the filmmakers who appreciate a woman over 40 and appreciate the life experience."

She added, "My entire career has been built on beauty, as I've gotten older I want my message to be appreciative, but beauty as a wellness.... we're not just wrinkle cream. We need to change the narrative – and say that there is beauty in this age."

In her documentary "Pretty Baby," which was released last year, Shields talked to her daughters about being sexually exploited as a child.

Her 19-year-old daughter discussed Brooke posing naked for Playboy at age 10 and appearing nude in a movie at age 11, and exclaimed, "It's child pornography!"

Shields said in an interview, "That was hard for me, to not justify my mom to them, but when they asked me, I thought, 'Oh God, I have to admit this.'"

"I mean, I could say, 'Oh, it was the time back then,' or 'Oh, it was art,'" Shields explained. "But I don't know why she thought it was all right. I don't know."

As Blaze News previously reported, Shields revealed that she was raped by a Hollywood insider early in her acting career.

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Video shows 6-year-old girl's dramatic escape from abduction attempt, father tracks down suspected creep: 'She did everything right'



A doorbell camera caught the moment that a man attempted to abduct a 6-year-old girl in broad daylight on Tuesday. Video shows that the child was able to evade being kidnapped by doing everything right.

The young girl was taking out the trash in front of her home in Hamilton, Ohio. Video from the home's Ring doorbell camera shows a man walking down the sidewalk near young Ken'Adi Nash.

The man – later identified as 33-year-old Deric McPherson – groped the little girl, according to the child's mother. McPherson then snatched the girl's hand and attempted to abduct her by dragging her away.

The 6-year-old girl shrieked in fear – which caused the man to keep walking.

"This guy walks by and he touched me. He pulled me," Ken'Adi told "Good Morning America." "He just let go of me because I screamed."

Mandie Nash – the girl's mother – told CNN, "She came in with a blood-curling scream, she ran into the living room she said, 'Mommy someone tried to take me, he touched my private parts,'" Nash said. "I went outside and saw him walking down the sidewalk."

The mother claimed that Ken'Adi had taken the trash out several times before without incident.

The mother and her husband Ricky Nash chased after the man by foot. However, Nash returned to get his car to pursue the suspected kidnapper. While following the suspect, the family called the police.

"I chased him like he still had my kid," Ricky Nash revealed. "Definitely didn't want him to be able to go snatch another kid."

Hamilton Police Department officers arrested McPherson.

McPherson was taken to the Butler County Jail. He is charged with abduction and gross sexual imposition, according to police records.

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Miller said Ken'Adi is already getting counseling for the sexual attack. The family is also considering moving because the daughter is still uncomfortable.

"When the cops put him in handcuffs, it took so much anguish away," the father said.

"He wouldn't have let go of her if she wouldn't have pulled and screamed like she did," Ricky Nash added.

Mandie explained, "It's forever etched in our minds — that scream. So it'll always be with us."

Callahan Walsh – a child advocate at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children – said that Ken'Adi did everything right.

"She did everything right in this case. She was kicking, screaming, pulling away. It's exactly what we teach kids what to do when a would-be abductor tries to grab them," Walsh told "Good Morning America." "In fact, there's a lot to learn from these attempted abductions."

"We've been analyzing attempted abductions for over a decade at the National Center for Missing Exploited Children and we know that over 83% of the time, when a child is able to get away from their would-be abductor, it's something that they did proactively, like kicking, screaming or pulling away, exactly what she did in this case," he continued. "She's the reason why she's home safe tonight."

Walsh noted that it is best to start teaching children at a young age about the dangers of kidnapping.

"Start with things like walking through your neighborhood, pointing out which houses your child could go to in an emergency, what their neighbors' names are, what their parents' full names are, what phone number and what home address they have," Walsh advocated.

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Over 20 million online child sexual abuse material incidents reported on Facebook, by far the most of all platforms



A new report from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said that a vast majority of reported online child sexual abuse material was from Facebook.

The annual report by the NCMEC for 2020 claimed the organization's CyberTipline received more than 21.7 million reports of online child exploitation, 21.4 million of these reports were from electronic service providers. There were 20,307,216 reported incidents related to child pornography or trafficking on Facebook, including Instagram and Whatsapp, which the social media behemoth owns.

For comparison, Google reported 546,704 incidents of CSAM, Snapchat found 144,095, Microsoft had 96,776, Twitter cited 65,062, TikTok had 22,692, and Reddit reported 2,233 instances of apparent child sexual abuse material.

MindGeek, the Canada-based parent company of several adult content websites, reported far fewer incidents. MindGeek, which owns Pornhub, YouPorn, RedTube, and Brazzers, reported 13,229 instances of child sexual abuse material last year.

The Internet Watch Foundation, which helps "victims of child sexual abuse worldwide by identifying and removing online images and videos of their abuse," claimed it found 118 incidents of videos containing child sexual abuse or rape on Pornhub between 2017 and 2019.

In December, Pornhub faced scrutiny after the New York Times published multiple allegations of sexual exploitation on the adult content website.

The streaming behemoth, which netted 3.5 billion visits per month in 2019, introduced new guidelines in December to protect against underage porn being uploaded on the site.

"Going forward, we will only allow properly identified users to upload content," Pornhub said in a statement. "We have banned downloads. We have made some key expansions to our moderation process, and we recently launched a Trusted Flagger Program with dozens of non-profit organizations."

Pornhub also noted that it voluntarily registered as an electronic service provider for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's data collection.

Regarding Facebook's overwhelming majority of the alleged CSAM incidents, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stated:

Higher numbers of reports can be indicative of a variety of things including larger numbers of users on a platform or how robust an ESP's efforts are to identify and remove abusive content. NCMEC applauds ESPs that make identifying and reporting this content a priority and encourages all companies to increase their reporting to NCMEC. These reports are critical to helping remove children from harmful situations and to stopping further victimization.

As of April 2020, Facebook was the most popular social media platform with nearly 2.5 billion active users.

The NCMEC said reports to the CyberTipline increased by 28% from 2019.

"The 21.7 million reports of child sexual exploitation made to the CyberTipline in 2020 included 65.4 million images, videos and other files," the NCMEC said. "These materials contained suspected child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and other incident related content."

Reports to the CyberTipline by the public more than doubled in 2020.

The numbers from NCMEC are reported instances and are not confirmed cases of abuse.

The NCMEC's CyberTipline is a "centralized reporting system for the online exploitation of children," where the public and ESP's "can make reports of suspected online enticement of children for sexual acts, extra-familial child sexual molestation, child pornography, child sex tourism, child sex trafficking, unsolicited obscene materials sent to a child, misleading domain names, and misleading words or digital images on the internet."

Ahead of the NCMEC's report, Facebook announced on Tuesday that it was introducing new measures to prevent "people from sharing content that victimizes children," as well as new improvements to detection and reporting inappropriate content.

"To understand how and why people share child exploitative content on Facebook and Instagram, we conducted an in-depth analysis of the illegal child exploitative content we reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in October and November of 2020," Facebook said in a statement.

"We found that more than 90% of this content was the same as or visually similar to previously reported content. And copies of just six videos were responsible for more than half of the child exploitative content we reported in that time period," the social media network stated. "While this data indicates that the number of pieces of content does not equal the number of victims, and that the same content, potentially slightly altered, is being shared repeatedly, one victim of this horrible crime is one too many."

Facebook reported 150 accounts to the NCMEC for "uploading child exploitative content in July and August of 2020 and January 2021," and found that over 75% of these users "did not exhibit malicious intent." "Instead, they appeared to share for other reasons, such as outrage or in poor humor."

Facebook will now have a "pop-up" that appears whenever users searches for terms associated with child exploitation. There will also be a "safety alert that informs people who have shared viral, meme child exploitative content about the harm it can cause and warns that it is against our policies and there are legal consequences for sharing this material."

Facebook said accounts that share and promote CSAM would be removed.

"Using our apps to harm children is abhorrent and unacceptable," Facebook's news release read. "Our industry-leading efforts to combat child exploitation focus on preventing abuse, detecting and reporting content that violates our policies, and working with experts and authorities to keep children safe."