Andre Agassi Clears the Air About Ex-Wife Brooke Shields
Andre Agassi is happily married to Steffi Graf, but there was a time in the past when he was coupled up with Brooke Shields. The former duo was married from 1997 to 1999, and the 59-year-old actress had some curious things to say about her ex in her recent memoir, Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old.
"I’m glad I never got pregnant with my first husband because it would have been a disaster,” Shields wrote. “When we got divorced he made that very clear.” She also claimed that he often played into her issues with body image.
“When I would profess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you could see yourself the way I see you.’ However, when I said, ‘Will you still love me if I’m big and fat?’ I could never have expected his response,” she alleged in the book.
His reported response? “I love you too much to let you get big and fat," Shields wrote.
Agassi was asked about his reaction to his ex-wife's claims, and he took the high road.
“I have always wished nothing but the best for her,” the retired athlete told Us Weekly. “I guess maybe one of the reasons why I don’t know much about it is because I don’t want to be in a position to necessarily comment on it one way or another, except rooting for her. I mean, at the end of the day love wins and I try to love everyone.”
In her 2014 book, There Was a Little Girl, Shields talked about Agassi's addiction to meth which he had already revealed in his 2009 bombshell memoir, Open.
"I was so unbelievably clueless," Shields wrote in her first book. "To this day, I think to myself 'My God, Brooke. All you've seen in your life, and you couldn't pick this up?' But if you watch these athletes play, they play five, six, seven hours at the highest level and they keep going and going and the regimen surrounding them is so intense that my justification was, I guess you need to blow off steam when you can."
Shields married Chris Henchy in 2001, and they share two daughters, Rowan, 21, and Grier, 19. Agassi and Graff also married in 2001 and share son Jaden, 23, and daughter Jaz, 21.
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