Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields gained widespread attention as a teen from both her role in the film Pretty Baby and her Calvin Klein ads, but she actually began modeling at only 11 months old. Getting an early start in the limelight somehow meant that she was born to be a star.

Growing up, her mom encouraged her to join the show business, so she took ballet, piano, and horse riding lessons. At age 14, Shields was Vogue magazine’s youngest fashion model ever. She also became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces during this time because of her dual career as an actress and fashion model. By the early ’80s, she abandoned her show business career to attend Princeton University, earning her degree in French literature. She later continued making appearances in television shows, including Friends, Two and a Half Men, and Law and Order: SVU.