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Brooke Shields says that a revelation in her 50s made her reflect on her career — and consider what it could have been like if her mother hadn’t been her manager.

In Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, the 59-year-old actress writes that she was told in her early 50s that Hollywood agent Sam Cohn, who represented the likes of Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Cher and Sigourney Weaver, had wanted to take her on as a client when she was young.

“This was the first time I had heard anything about it!” Shields writes. “My God, I agonized, if I’d signed with him back then, it would have fundamentally changed the trajectory of my acting career.”

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As it was, Shields’ mother, Teri, who died in 2012, managed her daughter’s career until she reached her 20s.

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