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Brooke Shields is getting candid about her body. The 59-year-old Suddenly Susan actress opened up in her new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old that she underwent labia reduction surgery during her 40s due to discomfort, chafing and bleeding. However, during a post-op checkup with her surgeon, she learned he also performed a vaginal rejuvenation procedure without her consent. “I’d be lying if I said I’m not embarrassed to share this very intimate information,” she wrote the book in an excerpt via Us Weekly. “But, if we are to change the way we approach and talk about women’s health, then we need to bring up the uncomfortable but very real issues.” Keep reading to find out more… According to Brooke, her doctor seemed proud of the “twofer,” even though she didn’t request the “irreversible” procedure. “He informed me that he threw in a little bonus,” Brooke told Us Weekly. “It felt like such an invasion—such a bizarre, like, rape of some kind.” “Nothing pointed toward this need to be tighter or smaller or firmer or younger, especially there,” she said. She told Us that she didn’t tell her husband, producer Chris Henchy, what happened “for the longest time.” She’s now going public with her story to raise awareness about women’s autonomy. “I thought, I don’t want anybody else telling me what I have to do,” she went on to say. Find out what procedures celebrity revealed they had done recently.
