Brooke Shields tells PEOPLE she's 'not ready' to be an empty nester without her two daughters, saying that it's 'foreign territory.' The actress is mom to daughters Rowan, 20, and Grier, 18.
Hannah Sacks is a writer/reporter for the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since May 2023. Her work has previously appeared inEric Andersson joined PEOPLE as a senior writer in 2022. His work has appeared in TV Guide Magazine, The Wall Street Journal and Us Weekly.Speaking to PEOPLE in this week's issue, the actress, 58, opened up about how she's becoming an empty nester for the first time when both her daughters leave for college in the fall.
Brooke Shields Admits Her Adult Daughters Still 'Sleep in the Bed with Me' When Her Husband's Out of Town "Yeah, I've been avoiding thinking of it because people will say to me, 'Oh, you're gonna be so relieved,' and I just don't see it happening," she shared.Shields added, "I don't see it happening. I was like, 'Well, they're still gonna come back,' and by the way, the cost of just living in this city is so prohibitive anyways that it may work in my favor.
"My younger daughter just turned 18. You know, the minute my husband is on any type of work trip or gone or something, you know, they still sleep in the bed with me," she said. "We still watch rom-coms. They're my babies and they will never not be."
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