At the age of fifteen, Shields became the youngest model ever to grace the cover of Cosmopolitan.

Appeared on the cover of American Vogue thirteen times between 1980 and 1987. She made her first cover appearance at the age of fourteen.

Brooke Shields Appeared as one of the children in the flashback schoolroom scene in Annie Hall (1977) though her footage was cut out of the finished film.

For her role in The Blue Lagoon (1980), Shields became the first ever "Winner" of a Worst Actress RAZZIE Award. She went on to "win" several more RAZZIES, and in 2000 was nominated as Worst Actress of the Century.

Brooke's legal birthname is Brooke Christa Shields. Her birth certificate was reproduced in both the 1978 and 1982 editions of "The Brooke Book." It is a widely misheld, and often reported, misconception that her birthname is Christa Brooke Shields.

On 25 February 1997 Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi filed suit against The National Enquirer claiming it printed "false and fabricated" statements about them and sought damages.

Between the years of 1980 and 1985, Brooke Shields appeared on more than 300 magazine covers internationally.

In 1981, the New Jersey-based music group The Jitterz released a single titled "The girls want to look like Brooke Shields", which was a minor alternative radio hit.