Darth Vader Super Bowl commercial: What happens to child stars in ads?

3. Brooke Shields – Ivory Snow (1966)

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Brooke Shields hosts the LG Lotus Elite launch party at Palms Place Jan. 7, 2010 in Las Vegas. The child actress got her start as the Ivory Snow baby at 11 months, although it was her more risque ads and movies that gained more attention.

Ms. Shields blossomed into a teen fashion model, appearing on the covers of the hundreds of magazines by the mid-1980s. Her risqué appearce in "Pretty Baby" made her into a movie star, although it was wasted on a string of bad movies. She resurrected her acting career, however, and was nominated for two Golden Globe awards for "Suddenly Susan," an NBC sitcom that ran five years in the 1990s. Some of her ad appearance were also risqué, such as the Calvin Klein jeans commercials, but she also went out of her way to promote nonsmoking. Here's one of those public service announcements:

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