Brooke Shields on aging in the public eye and handling haters: ‘I’ve earned everything I have on my face’

Brooke Shields is addressing all things aging.

The longtime actress and model, 59, is set to release her new memoir, “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old” ($21) on Tuesday — and she’s having some frank conversations about beauty standards in Hollywood.

On Monday, Shields promoted her latest project on “Good Morning America,” where she spoke about what it’s like growing older in the public eye.

Earlier today, Brooke Shields promoted her new memoir “Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old” on “Good Morning America.” GC Images She chatted about what it’s like growing older in the public eye. ABC

“It’s important to understand where you’ve been, but I think it’s really joyous to say, ‘I may not know where I’m going, but I’m here. This is a different age than it used to be,'” she explained on the show.

“And yeah, I want to look my best, and I want to be healthy. Again, I always say, ‘I wish things were a little higher and tighter,'” Shields joked while moving her hands in an upward direction below her chin.

The “Pretty Baby” actress then brought up her two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18, explaining, “I look at my gorgeous baby girls, and they’re just buoyant.”

“But by the same token, I’ve earned everything I have on my face,” Shields added. “It’s important to pat yourself on the back and say, ‘What do you want to do now? You’re no longer tied to biology in the same way.”

“And yeah, I want to look my best, and I want to be healthy. Again, I always say, ‘I wish things were a little higher and tighter,'” Shields joked. Brooke Shields/Instagram Shields then brought up her two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18, explaining, “I look at my gorgeous baby girls, and they’re just buoyant.” Brooke Shields/Instagram

Elsewhere in the interview, Shields chuckled over some not-so-kind remarks from Internet trolls.

“I was doing an Instagram Live the other day, and one of the comments was, ‘I really wish you looked the way you used to.'”

As the hosts laughed and advised Shields to ignore the comments, she mentioned a second one: “Well, where is your mother?” another person asked.

Shields responded on the show, “Dead … she is dead,” adding, “But I thought boy, we’re all so out of touch. We need to find joy in this.”

The actress laughed about a recent comment on her Instagram Live, which read, “I really wish you looked the way you used to.” Getty Images The mother of two also discussed how women need to self-advocate. Getty Images

In addition to her new memoir, Shields launched haircare brand Commence in June, which is specifically catered to women over 40.

“Once you reach this era in your life, you realize all of a sudden your hair and scalp have different needs,” she told Vogue over the summer.

“Women were sharing that their hair had become more brittle or was thinning,” she told the publication. After some research, I realized there was this white space for women over 40 when it came to their hair.”

In June, Shields launched her haircare brand Commence, which is specifically catered to women over 40. Brooke Shields/Instagram “Once you reach this era in your life, you realize all of a sudden your hair and scalp have different needs,” she told Vogue over the summer. Getty Images for SiriusXM

And the “Blue Lagoon” actress has always been vocal about the pressures of fame, previously telling Glamour that she was embracing her wrinkles and wants to “chase now” instead of “chasing youth.”

“I am all for any of it if it truly is done for yourself, for the right reasons, and gives you a level of some kind of confidence that you need,” she said when asked about her thoughts on cosmetic procedures.

“I’m scared of not looking like myself; the times that I’ve had Botox, I end up with this Spock eye and I’m like, ‘I don’t look like myself,'” she explained.

“But I’ll get Fraxels, and peels, and whatever the newest thing is, and I’ll try it,” she said, adding, “I just don’t want to not look like myself.”