NEW YORK -- Brooke Shields, testifying a second day in a breach of contract trial, said Friday that her mother saw nothing wrong in letting her pose for a series of nude photographs when she was 10 years old.
'She thought it was all right if I did it,' Miss Shields, 16, said of her mother in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.
Two 5-foot blowups of the pictures were brought into the courtroom and entered as evidence by A. Richard Golub, attorney for photographer Garry Gross.
Justice Edward Greenfield instructed the pictures, which had been in a window display at a Fifth Avenue boutique, be set up facing the bench so they could not be seen by reporters and spectators.
With one of the pictures in front of her, Teri Shields, 47, said she thought they were 'beautiful' when she first saw them in the shop window, but that they 'still made me sick.'
Asked what she thought of seeing them again, Mrs. Shields said, 'I find them ugly.'
During earlier questioning from her attorney, Sandra Frankel, Mrs. Shields became visibily upset when she was handed a copy of a soft-porn magazine with the nude pictures of her daughter inside.
Brooke and Teri Shields contend Gross violated a stipulation made when the pictures were taken, barring their use except for a book later published by Playboy Press under the title 'Sugar and Spice.'
Some of the pictures have appeared in at least 18 publications.
Golub's questioning of Mrs. Shields centered on whether she had read releases for use of the photos signed when they were made in September 1975, and whether there was any specific discussion on their use.
As her daughter watched, Mrs. Shields conceded she had 'never' read the standard release, but asserted the written notation 'Playboy Press' on the form constituted a limitation for the use of the pictures.
Mrs. Shields said she agreed to let Brooke pose for the nude photos after Gross called her and said he was doing a photo essay for Playboy Press.
Before Mrs. Shields took the stand, the teen temptress image of her daughter was a major issue in the trial. Miss Shields, who wept on the stand Thursday under Golub's relentless questioning, countered by describing herself as a role model to whom a 'majority' of teens look to for guidance.
Although Miss Shields has played film characters who engage in sexual acts, she said she believed young people enjoyed her films without imitating what they've seen.
'My fans make a distinction between me and my roles and my fan mail proves it,' said Miss Shields who told the court she received about 1,000 letters a week.
'As Brooke Shields I'm a role model for my fans,' she said. 'They look to me. It's shown in my fan mail. They write to ask me questions.'
'I want them to follow me as a person andlook up to me,' said Miss Shields, who wore a blue ribbon in her hair and was dressed in a herringbone jacket, mauve slacks and a blue, ruffled collar shirt.
She said at one point she wanted to change her temptress film image, but then retreated saying she would take a 'really good' film role in which sex was involved if a stand-in played the nude scene.
Miss Shields said that since she made a brief nude scene when she was 11 in the film 'Pretty Baby,' a 'body double' has played such scenes in subsequent movies.
Golub introduced a number of articles about Miss Shields and said that in 'almost all of them there is a mention of sex.'
'Did your mother ever express to you that she was going to construct a concerted campaign to create in you, for the world, the next major international sex symbol,' Golub asked in his last question.
'No, she did not,' Miss Shields said emphatically.
