Brooke Shields became emotional after dropping her youngest daughter off at college.
“Okay, so, I sat here a year ago, and I watched my big girl go, and I’m back on this porch, and I’m now officially an empty nester?” the “Blue Lagoon” star said in a selfie-style Instagram video on Monday, her voice shaking.
Shields, 59, then began to cry as she said that “at least” her two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 18, were “together” at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC.
“But it’s not really, it’s not, uh, it’s not easy. It is not easy for the moms. I mean, it’s so weird,” she continued, taking off her glasses and wiping tears from her eyes.
“Anyway, um, it was very difficult. And then she started crying, and then I started really crying, and then I cried for a good part of the ride home. However, um, I’m an empty nester. Wow.”
The actress captioned the emotional video, “My two baby birds have left the nest.”
Thousands of Shields’ followers and other celebrities commented on the post and sympathized with her.
“Oh Brooke it’s so hard. It’s the end of an era and now you’re about to start a new chapter. But first you have to cry. enough. I laid on my couch for 3 weeks and couldn’t talk to anyone. Be gentle with yourself. It’s hard because it’s hard. All of us are sending you love,” Debra Messing wrote.
“I know how difficult that must be. My best lady is going through that right now,” Kristin Chenoweth said.
“I know Brooke. But it gets a little easier and always remember that we raised them to fly away!” ABC News anchor Deborah Roberts added.
“True words! It’s so hard for the mums when our children fly out but if we did our job, that’s the goal!” Melissa Joan Hart joined.
Shields’ oldest daughter, Rowan, is a senior at Wake Forest, while Grier is a freshman.
Rowan and Grier, whose 23-year-old Shields’ father-in-law is Chris Henchy, poked fun at their mom by making a TikTok video with the “Pretty Baby” star.
In the viral video shared last week, Shields is seen carrying boxes into her youngest daughter’s dorm room and mouthing, “Does this mean I’m an empty nester now?”
“Yes, we’re both in college now!” the girls replied.
Then Shields threw up the boxes she was holding and ran emotionally out the door and through the hall.
The “Endless Love” star has long documented her close relationship with her daughters.
They’ve previously gotten matching tattoos, and Shields even lent them some of her iconic red carpet looks.
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