The actor and model, who recently joined the app, talks to Vogue about getting on TikTok.
Brooke Shields Is Ready to Master TikTok
No longer just an app for Gen Z, TikTok has been taken over by Hollywood stars like Selena Gomez and Jessica Chastain. Another such high-profile star who recently got on board with the app? Actor and model Brooke Shields.
With the help of her two teen daughters, Rowan and Grier, Shields launched her TikTok page in August (it already has over 2.6 million likes and counting). But Shields tells Vogue she’s hardly a TikTok pro—yet. “I’m still afraid to touch anything,” says Shields. “If I do, all of a sudden, I’m live. [My daughters] are like, ‘mom, don't touch anything. Don't touch any buttons.’”
Shields actually went viral on TikTok well before launching her own profile. In May last year, she made a cameo on her daughter Rowan’s page, when Rowan struck her in the face with a purse as part of a TikTok trend. “She really got me, but she felt bad,” says Shields. Her first TikTok on her own page—the “questions I get frequently asked” trend—has over 12 million likes, where she was asked things like “Are your eyebrows real?” and “Do you still fit into your Calvin’s?” (Her answers? “Nope, stickers!” and “nope, they’re too big on me.”)
It’s now her mission to master the app on her own. “I lost half of my Tiktok team: [My eldest daughter] is in college, so I have to rely on my 15 year old now,” says Shields. “But she's a little harder to nail down. She doesn't seem very interested in managing my career.”
Below, Shields talks with Vogue about her favorite TikTok trends, what she’s learned from her daughters, and what big idea she’ll tackle next.
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Christian Allaire
