Earlier this week, we reported that the Hollywood star Brooke Shields had been rushed to the hospital after breaking her femur. Now, the 55 year-old is opening up about her injury, admitting that she has a long road ahead when it comes to regaining her ability to walk.
“I fell off a balance board,” Shields told People Magazine. “Honestly, every day I feel like I’m having to begin again. Rehab is always slow and it’s one day at a time and you just take what you can control and go, ‘Okay, I’m going to be happy with that as my progress for right now.'”
Regardless of how challenging rehab is, Shields is determined to stay positive, as she knows that negativity is “not going to help.”
“If you ask yourself to come up with reasons why things are bad, you’ll come up with pages and pages,” she added. “But if you just ask yourself to think about the positives, whatever they are, it could always be worse. People are struggling everywhere. I have day-to-day things that I can do in my realm of control, in every area of my life. That’s what I’m going to focus on.”
Despite her injury, Shields is still focused on work as well, as she just launched her new campaign with Colgate. She will be the face of its new Renewal toothpaste, which was developed by gum care experts to target and repair early gum issues.
“I was really just shocked to find out that I did not know that [gum health] was an issue,” Shields explained. “I assumed that gum health just meant keeping your teeth clean and flossing. But I had no idea that I would need a product that would help not just target, but reverse any early gum damage that I was not aware of.”
Since she’s been in the public eye since she was a child, Shields has always taken “really good care” of her teeth, but she’s totally redesigned her oral care routine now.
“I was really not as aware, as I am now, and that I want people to be, that gum issues happen gradually,” she said. “And we often have no idea. And this Colgate Renewal product really does target the health of your gums.”
As for what’s keeping her smiling these days, she did not hesitate to say her family, which consists of her husband Chris Henchy, 56, and their daughters Rowan, 17, and Grier, 14.
“It’s a little silly, but just being with my children and my husband in such an uninterrupted period of time in this last year,” she said. “They’re ruthless to me. They make fun of me constantly, but it is not done in a mean spirited way, obviously. But I am by nature, more dorky than maybe people might think I would be. And [my family] will all look at me and just make such fun of me.”
“And then I’ll look at myself, I’ll be like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe I just did that. You’re right, you’re right,'” she added. “And it gets me out of being so serious about everything. And the levity has been great during COVID-19. My family, we laugh a lot. My husband is very funny and it has been like medicine.”
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