Beautiful Mama Brooke Sheilds was a little shocked when shooting an comparitive image of her former self, recently: "I keep thinking I'm younger than I am," the Shields, 42, tells Parade
magazine. "The other day, I was working with a
photographer to recreate an image we had done years ago. When I saw my
face, I kind of went, 'What is that?' I assumed I was going to look the
same, and I didn't. It was a shock to my system."
"Sometimes I'll read a part and identify with the material, and I'll
say, 'Oh, honey, I really like this,' " Shields says. "He'll look at me
like I'm crazy and ask, 'What's wrong with you? You're not in your 20s.
You seriously think you can walk in there and get this role? It's going
to a 24-year-old.' "
Still, this gorgeous Mom of two finds a lot to be proud about:
"I'm
really proud of my kids (Rowan, 4, and Grier, 22 months), I'm excited
about my job, and my marriage is not suffering. It's not easy, but it's
not falling apart," she says. "This is the first time in my life that
everything is exactly the way I want it to be."
