Dean Cain and Brooke Shields in 1995.Photo: Ron Galella/Getty
In this week’s cover interview for PEOPLE, the actress, 57, recalls being in a “great relationship” with the “beautiful” and “mouthwatering” Cain, 56, while at Princeton University.
It also led to near-constant questions about her looks and sex life from the time she was a teen. “I was the most famous virgin in the world,” she has quipped.
The intensity of the attention played out in her early romantic life — and her dynamic with Cain.
“We had a great relationship, broke up, got back together again after three years. And that should have been a delicious time for me of reveling in it and feeling proud and freebecause I was in love,” she tells PEOPLE.
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Brooke Shields on the cover of PEOPLE.Michael Schwartz
“But it was as if I was just paralyzed from shame, thinking everybody was going to know, thinking of letting my fans down because I had professed one thing,” Shields adds.
Before he was Superman onLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Cain was Shields' football-player boyfriend and classmate at Princeton University.
The model and actress recalls of their relationship, “He just was so loyal and loving and just so in love. And I did not make it easy.”
In fact, she tells PEOPLE, she even “apologized” to her ex “a few years back” for not enjoying the moment more.
“I said, ‘I’m sorry for you, and I’m really sorry for me,’ " Shields remembers.
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A mom to two daughters today —Rowan, 19, and Grier, 16— Shields says she uses what she has learned from her own experience in communicating her hopes for them.
“It’s such a burden to carry,” Shields adds.
For more on Brooke Shields, pick up the latest issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
