Brooke Shields , is revealing many personal and often painful times in her new memoir, including that a physician once , performed a pelvic rejuvenation treatment without her assent.
The native , New Yorker, 59, information the upsetting experience in” Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Getting Old: Views on Aging as a Woman”, out , Jan. 14.
Shields claims that her “wonderful” specialist recommended a reduction in the length of her breasts, which had allegedly caused bleeding and scorching since she was a teenager, while she was in her 40s.
She decided to go through with the process, but at her post-op examination, the female plastic doctor who performed her operation informed her that “he threw in a small bonus” in the form of an “irreversible” rejuvenation, the’ 90s female told , Us Weekly.
” It felt like such an invasion — for a bizarre, of, murder of some kind”, she recalled.
Genital rejuvenation , can refer to various preventative procedures, but in this situation, Shields was subjected to genital tightening that she didn’t want or need.
” Nothing pointed toward this need to be tighter or smaller or firmer or younger, especially there” , , Shields , said.
It wasn’t just the doctor’s gall that left her “dumbfounded”, but the fact that he “proudly explained to me that he, you know, threw in a little twofer”.
Shields revealed that she opted not to file legal action against the doctor or his practice, saying she didn’t want “anyone else telling me what I have to do” despite the experience leaving her furious.
Though “embarrassed” to go public with” this very intimate information”, as she writes in the book,  , Shields , says she’s doing so to further the discourse around women’s health.
” If we are to change the way we approach and talk about women’s health, then we need to bring up the uncomfortable but very real issues”, she writes. ” Shame is no longer an option”.
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