Nothing Comes Between Brooke Shields and Her New Line for QVC<br />“Our customer is going to love her,” Ms. Ungaro said, “because to their minds she is very real.”<br />Still, the notion of Ms. Shields tweaking hemlines and adjusting seams seems a bit improbable.<br />At 52, Ms. Shields, after transitioning through the decades from wide-eyed innocent to self-mocking glamorista in television shows like “Suddenly Susan” and “Friends,” has ripened into the kind of consummately relatable personality much coveted by QVC, the home-shopping behemoth<br />that found success with celebrities including Iman and Catherine Zeta-Jones.<br />“I think in my life I’ve really embodied both the sexy<br />and the wholesome,” said Ms. Shields, a tutor’s pet on her early movie locations who eventually attended Princeton University.<br />“She playacts,” he adds, “even when the audience isn’t here.”<br />In her 2014 memoir, “There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me,” Ms. Shields confides<br />that she pulled away from Mr. Agassi by degrees, their rift widening after she learned of his former substance abuse.<br />“I was the person who was living above the hardware store and was fine with it,” Ms. Shields said.<br />“I found that I could put on these different hats and thrive,” she said.
