25. Brooke Shields

Brooke Shields may have turned heads modeling for Calvin Klein, but she was also a child actress herself. Her first role was in Pretty Baby was considered riskym, not to mention controversial, back then. She later appeared in another film called The Blue Lagoon. This showed everyone how she could easily transition from being a child actress to taking more adult roles. Of course, she did not let her acting get in the way of getting a degree from Princeton University.

Shields hasn’t retired from acting at all. As a matter of fact, she has been taking on guest roles in different TV shows as she has other projects to attend to. She also dabbled into writing a book called, Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression, wherein she shared her experiences after her pregnancies. It did touch a lot of women, which made her even more impressionable to her audience.