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Brooke Shieldsis struggling with watching her daughters grow up.
Explaining why she didn’t go along for the ride, Shields said, “It was just too painful, I don’t think I could go through the driving away from campus again. So if there’s anyone else going through this, we’re all in it together.”
After laughing at herself momentarily, she became weepy again. “It’s so hard, I miss her already,” she said. “Our babies. This is what you want. You raise them so that they leave you.”
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In November, theEndless Lovestar, 57, appeared on an episode ofLive with Kelly and Ryanwhere she shared what it was like to take Rowan to her first year of college at Wake Forest University, calling it the “worst thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.”
Mom of threeKelly Ripasaid she was already “empty nesting” and told Shields that “it gets easier” as time goes on. “By the third one, you barely slow the car down. ‘Jump out here at the light!’ " she teased.
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“You want them to be happy but you really don’t want them to be happy,” Shields said with a smirk, as Ryan Seacrest added, “you want them to need to come back,” before asking about Shields' “final moments” with Rowan.
“It was the rearview mirror,” she said, mimicking her crying as she “saw the university go away.”
“My husband was so funny, he was like, ‘Well, we can either fly there or drive.’ He said, ‘Do you want to cry in a car or do you want to cry in an airplane?’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to be able to cry with that many people on an airplane,’ " she recalled.
source: people.com
