Brooke Shields has admitted that being an empty nester is “not easy.”
In an emotional social media video, Shields spoke candidly about how she felt after dropping off her youngest daughter at college.
“A year ago I was sitting here watching my daughter leave the nest, and now I'm back on this porch, officially a married couple with their children on their own,” Shields, 59, began, noting that her two daughters attend the same school.
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“The Blue Lagoon” star Brooke Shields is getting through the emotional empty nest period of sending her youngest daughter off to college. (Brooke Shields/Instagram | Getty Images)
“At least they're together, but it's not really like that. It's not easy for the mothers,” she said in an Instagram video. “It feels really weird. It feels weird not having her here.”
Throughout the video, the “Pretty Baby” star wiped tears from her eyes as she recalled the painful moment she was separated from her daughter.
“It was really hard and she started crying… I really started crying and I cried the whole way in the car going home.”
“I'm an empty nest parent, it's amazing,” she added, fighting back tears.
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“Both my baby birds have flown the nest,” she wrote in her social media post, alongside a bird's nest emoji.
Shields and her husband, Chris Henchy, have two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Greer, 18. Their oldest daughter is a senior in college, and their youngest daughter just started her freshman year.
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Brooke Shields and daughter Greer Henchy attend the 2018 Hamptons Classic. (Getty Images)
In May, before dropping off their youngest child at college, Shields confessed that they “really weren't ready” to become a married couple once their children were over.
“Every time I think I'm ready, people say, 'Oh, you're going to have your freedom,' and I'm just… I don't know. I'm really not ready,” she told “Good Morning America” at the time.
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Shields has two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Greer, 18, with her husband, Chris Henchy. (Brooke Shields Instagram)
Shields acknowledged that her daughters aren't far away and agreed that they will “come back” like a “rubber band.”
“Our daughters are very close to us,” she told the media outlet. “They're attached in the right way.”
Henchy and Shields met by chance when the model-turned-actress was showing off her new dog to some friends.
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Shields and Henchy's oldest daughter is a senior in college, and their youngest daughter is just starting her freshman year. (Brooke Shields Instagram)
“I still believe I fell in love with Chris the day I met him in 1999, but I would never tell him that!” she wrote in her 2005 memoir. “I had just gotten my American bulldog, Darla, and I took her to meet some friends at the Warner Brothers gym, where she got lost, and Chris brought her back. He was writing a show that filmed at the gym and loved dogs. We chatted and he made me laugh.”
The two married in 2001. The Blue Lagoon star gave birth to Rowan in 2003 and Grier in 2006.
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