Like the claim that Playboy is only a “lifestyle magazine” Hefner has always tried to create a veneer of respectability around the Playboy brand. The main brand was created in 1953 by Hugh Hefner. The porn brand is most well-known for their Playboy magazine, which self-identifies as a “lifestyle magazine”, but they’ve always had a diverse stream of revenue from merchandise to clubs to other publications, like Sugar N’ Spice which featured nude children.
And at 10-years-old, she also posed for Playboy. She worked with Woody Allen in Annie Hall, even though her character didn’t make the final cut. Her parents later married and then divorced.Īs a child she was in ads for Ivory Soap and was famously the reason Eileen Ford created a child division of Ford Models. Her father’s family originally paid her mother to have an abortion, but her mom kept the money and had Brooke anyway. Her mother was a socialite, actress and model and her father was a business man and the family lived in New York City. Brooke Shields started working as a model when she was 11 months old.
