Brooke Shields bikini photos prove ‘women over 50 are not done’

Brooke Shields says most people assume she’s “done” with skimpy swimwear – when in reality she’s prouder than ever to flaunt her figure.

She’s an actress and model famed for her good looks, but as Brooke Shields got older she felt less confident about showing skin.

The 55-year-old admitted to People that up until recently she had favoured “big bathing suits that had as much fabric as possible”.

“My daughters were like, ‘Mum, it’s ridiculous.’ It was sort of seeing myself through their eyes and just celebrating things like my butt,” Brooke said.

“Things I just would never want to focus on in my life. Being 55 and saying ‘Wait a minute, women over 50 are not done.’”

Brooke said that while many people assume she has already had her career in fact she is “just starting”.

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At 55 Brooke Shields is more confident than ever posing in a bikini. Picture: Instagram.

The Blue Lagoon star recently signed with IMG Models and has revamped her fitness regimen while in lockdown.

Brooke used to workout if she was appearing in a show or on camera for a “vanity reason”, however, has now found a “place of peace” that has nothing to do with how she looks on the outside.

With no “fancy gym” to go to because of the coronavirus pandemic, Brooke has been exercising at home and posting her workouts on Instagram.

Brooke’s Instagram videos has seen her praised for her dedication, with fans blown away with just how fit she is.

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She used to only wear ‘big bathing suits that had as much fabric as possible’ until her daughters encouraged her to show more skin. Picture: Instagram.

“Still got it and always will,” one person wrote, while another commented: “Sweet Lord Brooke, I got exhausted just seeing you do this.”

“You are just looking fantastic!” another person commented. “I grew up watching you in movies and things and the Calvin Klein ads and more … you’re as beautiful as ever”

Brooke credits her daughters Rowan, 17 and Grier, 14, with teaching her to love her athletic curves, with both encouraging her to show her figure off.

“I was never skinny,” she said. “I was always athletic which means you don’t fit in the sample sizes.

“My daughters say I’m curvy. To them curvy is different. I watch them celebrate it.

“I’m learning from them and they always say you’re better off with something that shows your body rather than a muumuu.”

Brooke told Today in August that her approach to exercise first changed in 2018 when she had a knee replacement.

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Since the coronavirus pandemic, Brooke has been working out at home and shares her routines on Instagram. Picture: Instagram.

Brooke has been a household name since she was a teenager.

“I started working on little individual muscles, and sort of shaping the muscles that don’t really get attention,” she said, according to Prevention.

“You don’t have to dead lift 100 pounds. You can do small, teeny movements to activate these little muscles that actually wrap around other bigger muscles, and they tighten them all in. It was a revelation to work with a personal trainer and it not be a crazy painful thing.”

Brooke isn’t a fan of restrictive diets, telling Healthy Living magazine she feels healthiest when “I get enough sleep and drink enough water”.

“I don’t think there’s a trick to being healthy; I think we all know what our limitations are. There’s no ‘drink lemon juice after fried chicken’,” she said.

“It’s about being honest with yourself and saying, ‘Yep, I’ll have to eat less and exercise more than I’m consuming,’ or ‘I’m going to have to lay back on drinking and not sleeping.’

“Balancing seems to be the biggest tip. It’s so boring but yet it’s true. It gets real simple; there’s no pill.”