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Brooke Shields “naive” about Calvin Klein advertising

Brooke Shields starred in Calvin Klein commercials when she was 15. (Lev Radin / Sipa USA)

Brooke Shields thought about her iconic 1980 Calvin Klein Jeans campaign and said it was “naive”.

The actress and model posed for the brand when she was 15 and said in an ad: “You want to know what’s between me and my Calvins? Nothing.”

It sparked a backlash, with some networks even banning the commercial, but Shields told Vogue in a new video that she didn’t think too much of all the fuss at the time.

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She said, “You take the one commercial that is a rhetorical question. I was naive, I didn’t think anything of it. I didn’t think it had anything to do with underwear, I didn’t think it was sexual in nature. “

Shields, 56, said she was shocked that people assumed she understood the innuendo and said she was a “very protective” young woman.

The Blue Lagoon star – who has two daughters – continued, “If you were going to have ambiguities, you didn’t explain it to me. If they had explained to me, why? Would you have wanted me to say it differently? “

NEW YORK CITY, NY - SEPTEMBER 7: Brooke Shields visits CALVIN KLEIN, INC.  celebrates 40th anniversary on the High Line on September 7, 2008 in New York City.  (Photo by CLINT SPAULDING / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Brooke Shields didn’t understand the backlash at the time. (CLINT SPAULDING / Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

The star said it “got her out of phase”.

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“It didn’t get into my psyche because it’s overtly sexual, sexualized in some way,” she explained.

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