{"id":2426396,"date":"2026-05-21T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2426396"},"modified":"2026-05-21T13:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T13:26:13","slug":"brooke-shields-opens-up-about-concerns-over-daughters-reality-tv-casting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/brooke-shields-opens-up-about-concerns-over-daughters-reality-tv-casting\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Shields Opens up About Concerns Over Daughter’s Reality TV Casting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Brooke Shields is an influential figure in the spotlight, but she is also a protective mother to a daughter<\/a> who wanted to step into reality TV. The \u201cPretty Baby\u201d star sat down with TODAY\u2019s<\/a> Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones and spoke openly about the knot in her stomach when her eldest, Rowan Francis Henchy, joined the cast of Bravo\u2019s reality series \u201cNext Gen NYC.\u201d As she talked about it, she revealed that nothing quite prepared her for the moment.<\/p>\n

Brooke Shields is \u2018worried\u2019 about daughter getting cast for reality TV show \u2018Next Gen NYC\u2019<\/h2>\n

Speaking of her daughter joining reality TV, Brooke Shields told the TODAY hosts, \u201cI was sick to my stomach.\u201d Shields admitted without a shred of pretense that she knew the entertainment business inside out, especially since she started working as a young actor in an era when \u201cthey didn\u2019t have reality shows back in my day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shields<\/a> added, \u201cYou were not praised for bad behavior.\u201d She recalled, \u201cBad behavior was not really the goal. And so a lot of ratings kind of is geared towards that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rowan, now 23, graduated from Wake Forest University in 2025 and dreams of becoming a broadcast journalist. To her mother, a show all about drama felt like a major detour, so Shields did what a mom would do \u2014 she sat down to talk to her daughter, telling her, \u201cDon\u2019t be a\u2026 you know what I mean? Don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also told Henchy, \u201cLike, be the one. Be the voice of reason. You\u2019re going to be fine.\u201d Shields urged her to treat the Bravo and Peacock gig as a business move. She told her daughter, \u201cSee if you can translate that into another opportunity. It\u2019s a business choice that you\u2019re making.\u201d Shields further added, \u201cThis should be a stepping stone of some kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the advice came from a place of protection, Shields<\/a> now sees an unexpected upside. She told the hosts, \u201cIt\u2019s given her a lot of confidence in a way that I \u2014 that it\u2019s so nice to see.\u201d Watching her daughter walk onto a reality TV set still makes her nervous. However, Brooke Shields has not looked away as Rowan finds her wings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.momtastic.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brooke Shields is an influential figure in the spotlight, but she is also a protective mother to a daughter who wanted to step into reality TV. The \u201cPretty Baby\u201d star sat down with TODAY\u2019s Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones and spoke openly about the knot in her stomach when her eldest, Rowan Francis Henchy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2426397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[344724,22767,431148,403906],"class_list":["post-2426396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-brooke-shields","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-news","tag-rowan-henchy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Brooke-Shields-Opens-up-About-Concerns-Over-Daughters-Reality-TV.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426398,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426396\/revisions\/2426398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}