Brooke Shields calls out Meghan Markle's gender equality story as 'too precious'

Brooke Shields erstwhile dubbed Meghan Markle arsenic "too precious."

During a caller quality connected India Hicks's podcast, the 60-year-old histrion recalled the infinitesimal she interrupted the Duchess of Sussex during a sheet astatine the South by Southwest Festival past twelvemonth aft the erstwhile royal seemed to person mislaid the audience's attraction with an anecdote from her childhood. 

To people International Women's Day, Katie Couric asked the sheet a question related to sex equality – and Markle answered close away. 

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Brooke Shields dubbed Meghan Markle "too precious" aft the Duchess of Sussex shared an anecdote from her past. (Getty Images)

"Katie asks the archetypal question to Meghan and she talks astir however astatine a young age, she was already advocating for women," Shields said, per Sky News. 

Markle, who shared the nonstop aforesaid communicative with Vanity Fair successful 2017, referenced the clip she wrote a missive to a institution that promoted women washing dishes. 

"She starts telling a communicative astir however erstwhile she was 11 – and she keeps saying, ‘Well, erstwhile I was 11, I saw this commercialized and they were talking astir however washing dishes was for women. And she said, ‘I didn’t deliberation lone women lavation dishes. It wasn’t fair. So I wrote to the company.’"

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Meghan Markle has been advocating for women since a young age. (Getty Images)

"It was conscionable excessively precious, and I was like, they’re not going to privation to beryllium present for 45 minutes and perceive to anybody beryllium precious oregon serious."

Shields recalled interrupting Markle during the panel.

"I go, ‘Excuse me, I’m truthful sorry, I’ve got to interrupt you determination for 1 minute.’ I was trying not to beryllium rude, but I wanted to beryllium comic due to the fact that it was truthful serious. ‘I conscionable privation to springiness everybody present a discourse arsenic to however we’re different. When I was 11, I was playing a prostitute.’"

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Shields, who earned a laughter from the audience, was referring to her relation successful the 1978 film, "Pretty Baby."

The histrion and exemplary has been captious of ageism successful the manufacture successful the past. (Jim Spellman)

"The spot went insane. And past luckily, it was much relaxed aft that," Shields said.

During the aforesaid panel, Shields reflected connected being sexualized arsenic a child star successful Hollywood. 

The histrion roseate to fame astatine the property of 11 erstwhile she played a kid prostitute successful "Pretty Baby," which featured Shields successful aggregate nude scenes. As a 10-year-old, Shields posed bare for the Playboy work Sugar’n’Spice.

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"I was astatine the halfway of it," Shields said. "And I was promoting it and I was doing it."

Brooke Shields opened up astir being sexualized arsenic a kid prima successful Hollywood. (Getty Images)

She continued, "And I was fortunate due to the fact that I was surrounded by a precise beardown mom. I ne'er did determination to Hollywood. I ever went to regular school."

"So I had this benignant of assemblage astir maine that was protecting me, buoying me. And truthful I did not go the benignant of statistic that Hollywood created," Shields added.

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"Hollywood is predicated connected eating its young."

Fox News Digital's Ashley Hume contributed to this post.