Brooke Shields has at all times opened up her in depth closet to her daughters, so when it got here time for her highschool commencement, Grier Hammond Henchy seized the chance to convey again a particular gown of her mother’s, who as soon as stated, “Nothing is off limits.”
“Her graduation dress was my first wedding dress,” Shields stated of the robe she wore to marry tennis ace Andre Agassi in 1997.
And though their marriage didn’t work out, Shields—who known as her first husband “a good guy”—stated the gown felt “like a big full-circle moment” that “honors something,” including, “I think that’s healthy.”
Shields first wore the corseted ivory satin robe when she married the tennis participant—whom she divorced in 1999 earlier than marrying Grier’s dad, Chris Henchy, in 2001—however Grier made some adjustments to make the gown her personal.
“We had to re-bone it a little bit so it was tight and sleek,” stated Grier, 18, who simply started her first yr at Wake Forest College. “We took out all the poof because I didn’t want it poofy. And we made it strapless.”
“She looked great in it,” stated the 59-year-old star. “It’s such an honor when they want to wear your stuff. Normally they don’t think I’m cool.”
When Shields sat down with Oprah Winfrey as a part of Oprah Day by day’s “The Life You Want” class, she shared that one in all her daughters was horrified on the quantity of mud in her mother’s closet. “If you’re not going to wear this stuff, I’m gonna wear it!” she stated.
As well as to the 1997 wedding ceremony robe, the school freshman and IMG mannequin additionally walked the CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute purple carpet in a black Richard Tyler robe that Shields wore to a 2006 ball when Grier was simply six months outdated. She additionally sparkled in one in all her mother’s outdated gold attire earlier that yr.
