Brooke Shields Gets Pregnant Again To Spite Tom Cruise

Back in the summer when Tom Cruise was going through his interesting little War Of The Worlds promoting meltdown, his incessant gibbering could pretty much be boiled down to two basic bullet-points. 1) Katie Holmes good, 2) Brooke Shields bad.

Cruise got in a tizzy because Shields had dared to publicly suggest that anti-depressants had helped her get through severe postpartum depression after the birth of her first child, when - as we all know - "These drugs are dangerous."

There was a brief spat between Tom and Brooke, but Shields has got the last laugh - she’s again. And so help her if she’s not going to eat all of the antidepressant drugs in the world just to spite the tiny actor.

Brooke Shields (Books) will give birth to her second child with TV writer
husband Chris Henchy sometime in the Spring, according to a statement
given by her publicist yesterday. No other details were given, like
what anti-depressants Shields is planning to chow down on after the
birth.

When Brooke Shields gave birth to her first child Rowan Francis in
2003, she wrote about her postpartum depression in the book Down Came
the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression. She chronicled her
use of anti-depressants to combat her urges to throw her new baby
against a wall and kill herself.

Then Tom Cruise waded in with criticism of Brooke’s drug-use, which
he backed up with a bizarre pro-Scientology spiel against Matt Lauer
on the Today Show, where Cruise railed against Ritalin and psychiatry
and gave the impression that he was the only person who could
understand the problems of the world.

Brooke Shields hit back, calling Tom Cruise "ridiculous" and writing
in an opinion column in The New York Times that "The drugs, along with
weekly therapy sessions, are what saved me - and my family."

Now that both Brooke Shields and Katie Holmes are , maybe
Tom will be more understanding of the toll a baby takes on a mother. Or
maybe he’ll be too busy making sure that Katie remains totally silent
throughout the birth. Who know?

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Brooke Shields Pregnant Again - Reuters

[story by Stuart Heritage]