Actress Brooke Shields is dishing details from an upcoming as-yet-untitled book about her relationship with her mother Teri.
Her late mother was one of the most famous momagers, reported the New York Post.
"The reason I wanted to write the book is not to say: 'You didn't understand: She was the best mother in the world'," Shields said.
"I'm not holding her up on a pedestal, nor am I painting her as a villain or a victim," she added.
Teri courted controversy from the beginning when Shields was cast at 12 as a prostitute in the 1978 film "Pretty Baby", and a series of controversial Calvin Klein jeans ads at 14 that catapulted her career.
"You know what's so funny about a lot of the things that they were pushing back on her for? Those things were the least of my worries. I was exploited? I was in school full time... Seriously, the opportunities I had... I wasn't worried about what they were saying," she said.
