Actress Brooke Shields has admitted that she loves her husband, Chris Henchy, but she occasionally poses as asleep.
She claims does put this act up in order to avoid having an intimate relationship with her husband.
Brooke Shields made this revelation in her most recent memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old” which was released on Tuesday, January 14.
Shields described how sleeping with past boyfriends after losing her virginity affected her relationship with her late mother, Teri Shields.
Shields told readers that she lacks the drive to sleep with a man.
She also mentioned that she’s working on it but it’s not great to pretend to be asleep.
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Shields recalled being on the receiving end of a lecture about how important s£ks is to a relationship after she confided in the doctor about her lack of the act.
“I was talking to a doctor recently who inquired about my sex life, and I explained to her that I have no desire and I’m fine with it,” Shields, 59, wrote. “Turned out, she was not fine with it.”
Shields wrote that she “had a fervent s£x drive” when she was younger. “But I never felt like I could step into that appetite in the way that I wanted to,” the actress added.
Her marriage to 60-year-old Henchy has continued to reflect this. Henchy and Shields were wed in 2001.
Rowan age 21 and Grier age 18 are their shared daughters.
“Here I am, more than thirty-five years later, sometimes pretending I’m asleep when I know Chris is in the mood,” Shields admitted in the book. “That has nothing to do with Chris —he’s hot! He’s been working out at a boxing gym recently, and he looks incredible.”
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Earlier this month, Shields exclusively told Us Weekly that she had undergone vag!nal rejuvenation surgery without her consent from a plastic surgeon.
As a result of a prior surgery, the actress acknowledged that s£x has become painful.
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“For me to fully enjoy s£x at this point, I need my lotions and potions, the right sleepwear (maybe calling it sleepwear is contributing to the problem), my special pillow, and maybe a tequila so I can relax,” she wrote, noting “again” that Henchy is “not at all the problem.”
“Listen, there’s nothing wrong with using whatever you need!” she stated. “Whatever it takes.”
