Brooke Shields’s Daughter Grier Henchy Just Wore Her Famous Mom’s 1997 Wedding Dress To Her High School Graduation

“You save the stuff and wonder why,” Brooke explained. “When they have another life, it feels good.”

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Stephanie Soteriou
by Stephanie Soteriou

BuzzFeed Staff

It’s fair to say that one of the major perks of being the child of a celebrity is having access to their wardrobe, which will often be full of stunning designer outfits worn to movie premieres and red carpet events.

Brooke Shields with her daughters on the red carpet
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Back in 2022, actor Brooke Shields revealed that she’d let her then-18-year-old daughter, Rowan Henchy, raid her closet for her high school prom.

The teenager ended up opting for the attention-grabbing Richard Tyler dress that Brooke wore to the Golden Globes in 1998, where she was nominated for Best Actress in a Comedy Series.

Brooke Shields at the Golden Globe Awards; she is wearing a strapless, elegant gown with an off-the-shoulder wrap. She is posing on the red carpet
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Sharing a photo of Rowan wearing the red gown to her Instagram page at the time, Brooke emotionally wrote: "I thought it was a special night when I was nominated for a Golden Globe and wore this dress in 1998, but nothing could have prepared me to see my daughter wearing it to her prom.”

And the star went one step further when it came to her second daughter, 18-year-old Grier Henchy’s, high school graduation earlier this summer.

Brooke Shields with her daughter Grier
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After going through her famous mom’s hand-me-downs, Grier chose to wear Brooke’s 1997 wedding dress for the occasion, and even tailored it beforehand.

Grier Henchy, in a strapless, flowing gown, holds flowers while being accompanied by Brooke Shields in a black dress and sandals on a city street
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Brooke wore the bridal gown when she married her first husband, tennis legend Andre Agassi, who she divorced in 1999.

Brooke Shields holds a bouquet while sitting in a car with Andre Agassi on their wedding day, April 1997. Brooke is wearing a satin dress
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Brooke married Rowan and Grier’s father, Chris Henchy, in 2001.


“Her graduation dress was my first wedding dress,” Brooke told People in a new interview. “She looked great in it.”


Prior to the graduation, Brooke's dress was tailored to be strapless and less "poofy," with Grier adding: "We had to re-bone it a little bit so it was tight and sleek.”

Brooke went on to admit that she feels honored when her daughters want to wear her old clothes, and revealed that nothing is off limits when it comes to her wardrobe.

Brooke Shields leaves a church after her wedding to Andre Agassi, holding a bouquet and wearing a white gown
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“It’s such an honor when they want to wear your stuff. Normally they don’t think I’m cool,” she joked. “Honestly, they can wear anything because just to have it have another life — you save the stuff and wonder why. It’s like, some big Sotheby’s auction? I highly doubt it. Unless they’re iconic items. So when they have another life, it feels good.”


And this mindset extends to clothing that holds memories of her ex-husband, with Brooke saying that Andre is “a good guy,” so it is "healthy" to honor her wedding dress in this way.

But after the sweet mother-daughter bonding of organizing Grier’s graduation dress, Brooke had to face the reality of becoming a self-proclaimed “empty nester,” with the star breaking down in tears when Grier recently headed to college.

Brooke Shields smiles between her two daughters, Rowan Francis Henchy and Grier Hammond Henchy when they were kids. Both daughters have long hair and are also smiling
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It comes two years after Brooke went viral for crying over Rowan leaving the family home for her sophomore year of college in an emotional TikTok video, and it hadn’t gotten any easier the second time around.

Sharing a new video to her social media page, Brooke once again sobbed over the pain of her daughters flying the nest.

“OK, so I sat here a year ago, and I watched my big girl leave, and I’m back on this porch, and I am now officially an empty nester?” she said through tears. “It’s not easy for the moms. I mean, it’s just so weird.”

“It was really hard,” Brooke went on. “[Grier] started crying, and then I really started crying, and then I cried a good portion of the ride home. So anyway, um, I’m an empty nester. Wow.”

As with the 2022 video, Brooke’s followers found her emotional post incredibly relatable, with many admitting that they felt exactly the same way when their own kids went to college. 

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