Brooke Shieldsis opening up about how she and her mother differ in their parenting styles.
Shields, who shares her girls with husband Chris Henchy, says her mom’s “whole world revolved” around her when she was growing up — something she doesn’t want to happen with her daughters.
“I’m thankful that [my mom] really supported me in college when I was homesick and said, ‘You’re not a quitter, don’t give up, you’ll never forgive yourself.’ But I watched her slowly not know who she was without me,” says Shields. “I want my daughters to know that I am fully me, I am not their responsibility.”
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“I carried the responsibility of keeping my mother alive,” she continues. “It became not healthy in a sense because there was no independence for either of us.”
“I made a real concerted effort to make sure that my girls didn’t have that fear when they were alone,” adds Shields.
TheBlue Lagoonstar also revealed her thoughts on being an empty nester.
Brooke Shields and daughter Rowan.Brooke Shields/Instagram
“I’m not ever going to get used to her being gone,” she says of her daughter Rowan, who is wrapping up her first year at Wake Forest University. “She’s going to be married with her own children, and I’m still not going to be used to her being gone.”
“She’s really living her life, she’s enjoying college, she’s just really blossoming and growing. I listen to the way they talk to each other and their friends and the things they’re discussing, and you think, ‘Wow, she’s really her own person and I’ve done my best in my job and I’m going to try to get out of her way,’ " she says. “Even though I want her to live with me for the rest of her life.”
source: people.com
