Brooke Shields is formally an empty nester.
The actress, 59, and her two daughters Grier, 18, and Rowan, 21, spoke with PEOPLE for this week’s cowl story shortly earlier than the women each departed for faculty.
“I am terrified!” Shields tells PEOPLE of her women going away.
“I am frightened about me, simply as a lot as I am frightened about her,” jokes Grier.
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“Emotions are fraught,” says Rowan, who will likely be a senior this yr at Wake Forest College, the place Grier is ready to affix as a freshman. “I imply, I’ve already achieved it, and she or he was a multitude. I feel she’s actually busy now, which is nice. Swamp her with work!”
“Off the report, I am hoping you and Dad rekindle the flame,” Rowan jokes of Shields’ longtime husband Chris Henchy.
For Shields, it is a bittersweet second as her daughters unfold their wings and transfer out of the nest, changing into their very own particular person.
“Rapidly they aren’t yours anymore,” Shields says. “Once you understand they’re their very own human beings, you get to fulfill them once more.”
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On Monday, Aug. 26, the mother of two shared an emotional video on Instagram after she dropped her daughters off in school. “It’s not straightforward for the mothers. I imply, it’s simply so bizarre. So bizarre that she’s not right here,” Shields stated in her Reel.
“Anyway it was actually arduous after which she began crying after which I actually began crying after which I cried portion of the trip house. So anyway, I’m an empty nester,” she shared.
Although her daughters are actually all grown up, it doesn’t appear so way back that Shields remembers bringing her women house from the hospital.
“It appears like yesterday that I introduced them house from the hospital,” she tells PEOPLE. “If I considered it an excessive amount of I’d sob. As a result of I miss that.”
“The opposite day there was a 3-month-old child on the boat and I’m considering I’m by no means going to have infants once more,” Shields remembers. “And I’m like, ‘Women, the minute you get out of school, simply give me one and I’m going to lift it.’ They’re like, ‘Mother, that’s bizarre.’”
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