Brooke Shields’s Daughter Wore Her Mom’s Andre Agassi Wedding Dress to Her High School Graduation (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

When it came time topick a dress for her 2024 high school graduation,Brooke Shields’s daughter,Grier Henchy, 18, looked no further than Mom’s closet.

“Her graduation dress was my first wedding dress,” says Shields of the gown she wore to marry tennis ace Andre Agassi in 1997.

“We had to re-bone it a little bit so it was tight and sleek," adds Grier, 18, who just began her first year of college. (She joined her older sister, Rowan, 21 at Wake Forest University.) “We took out all the poof because I didn’t want it poofy.”

Adds Shields, “And we made it strapless.”

“She looked great in it,” says the 59-year-old star. “It’s such an honor when they want to wear your stuff. Normally they don’t think I’m cool.”

Brooke Shields and her family attend her daughter Grier Hammond Henchy’s graduation ceremony in New York City.T.JACKSON/BACKGRID

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In this week’s PEOPLE, Shields and her two daughters, Rowan and Grier, (their dad is Shields’s second husband Chris Henchy) share what home life isreallylike, including raiding their mom’s one of a kind closet.

Brooke Shields and Andre Agassi’s wedding on the cover of PEOPLE in 1997.

The dress she wore to wed Agassi (whom she divorced in 1999) is a perfect example. “He’s a good guy so to me it was really like a big full circle moment,” she says, “and it honors something and I think that’s healthy.”

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As Rowan tells it, “I was downstairs in New York, going through a bunch of her old dresses, making a TikTok and tried this red dress on. I didn’t really want to go through the process of finding a prom dress. I was kinda like ‘If we have something here….’ and I found this red dress.”

“It fit me except in the boobs, and we got it tailored just a little bit. It was like this is perfect and I’ll just do a Hollywood wave,” she says laughing.

Brooke Shields with her daughters Rowan and Grier at home in Southampton, NY, on July 21, 2024.Michael Schwartz

Michael Schwartz

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“They said ‘You’re never going to be taken seriously as an actress if you wear a red dress,'" she recounts. “And I said, ‘I don’t really understand how that correlates' and the next year everyone wore red to the Golden Globes and I took the PEOPLE spread [of the dress] threw it down on their desk and said ‘I’m ahead of my time.’”

For more on our exclusive interview with Brooke Shields and her daughters, pick up this week’s PEOPLE cover story, on newsstands Friday.

source: people.com