Brooke Shields’ 18-year-old daughter Grier Henchy has a lot to say about her mom’s fashion.
On a recent episode of Today with Jenna & Friends, Shields, 59, discussed Grier’s advice regarding her closet.
“My younger daughter was the one who taught me,” the Mother of the Bride star began. “I’ll buy something really nice and then I’ll save it. And I don’t wear it. Especially if it has such a fancy label.”
Grier, of course, encourages her mom to show it off.
“She was like, ‘Mom why don’t you do that? You work hard. Wear your stuff. They’ve got dust on them,’” Shields detailed.
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And Shields remembered the morbid qualifier Henchy added: “I’m going to get it all when you’re dead anyway…Well, I mean, I don’t want it to happen soon.”
Henchy furthered her roast of her mom saying, “You try so hard to be relatable and down to Earth, you look like a homeless person.”
“I was like, ‘What?!’” Shields said.
Shields shares two daughters with her husband, Chris Henchy. Their older daughter, Rowan Henchy, is 21.
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While her daughters are not afraid to speak their minds, Shields is a little more cautious about giving advice. In January, at Flow Space’s An Evening with Brooke Shields in New York City, the actress was asked about a time she had to give tough feedback to a friend.
“I’m very careful about giving advice because you can’t really know how to walk through someone else’s experience,” she said. “Some friends think they’re being tough love friends, but no one asked for that! Sometimes all I need is someone to listen or to reassure me it’s going to be okay.”
“And I learned a lot from my kids for that too, because Grier will say, ‘Mom, please don’t try to fix this. Just listen to me,’” she recalled. “And I’m just sitting on my hands and I’m biting my tongue and then I’ll try the, ‘Well, why do you think you reacted that way?'”
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She added: “And she’s like, ‘Oh mom, please.’ And so there’s subtext there. So I know I have to meet them differently when you figure one out and the next is completely different.”
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