Brooke Shields, whose NBC sitcom "Suddenly Susan" begins this fall, tackled her toughest challenge when she decided to fire her manager-mother.
Shields still talks often with Teri Shields but says ending their business relationship last year was "the hardest thing" she's ever done."Something didn't feel right," Shields says in the Oct. 3 Rolling Stone. "I had hopes and dreams, and I wasn't doing anything to go toward them. . . . The focus was on creating a persona rather than a talent."
Now 31, Shields played a prostitute at age 11 in Louis Malle's "Pretty Baby." She went on to cause a brief scandal with then-racy ads for Calvin Klein jeans, then had a string of mostly unsuccessful film roles.