In her new memoir, Brooke Shields writes that a doctor performed a vaginal rejuvenation procedure on her without her consent, Us Weekly reports.
The actor writes about the surgery in Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Woman, which was published Tuesday by Flatiron. A critic for Kirkus wrote of the book, “Though the reliance on research sometimes veers into the silly…and the pep talk aspect can be a bit much, Shields’ engaging candor generally saves the day.”
In the book, Shields said that she discussed with her gynecologist getting a labial reduction, which can ease discomfort and pain in the genital region. She underwent the procedure, and at a checkup afterwards the doctor who performed the surgery told her that he “threw in a little bonus.”
In an excerpt from the book published in People magazine, Shields writes that the surgeon told her, “I was in there for four hours, and you know what I did? I tightened you up a little bit! Gave you a little rejuvenation!”
“I was horrified, but also at a loss,” she writes. “I didn’t want to sue this man—or maybe I did want to, but I didn’t feel I could—because I didn’t particularly want talk of my lady parts, once again, on the front page of every paper. This man surgically altered my body without my consent.”
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
