Brooke Shields ‘Happy’ She Was Never Pregnant With Andre Agassi’s Baby

Brooke Shields never had a baby with her ex-husband, Andre Agassi – a decision she says turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

“I’m glad I never got pregnant with my first husband because it would have been a disaster,” Shields, 59, wrote in her latest memoir, Brooke Shields Doesn’t Get Old: Thoughts on Aging as a Womanpublished on Tuesday, January 14. “When we got divorced he made that very clear.”

Shields claimed in her book that Agassi, 54, told her to “be thankful we didn’t have children” when they separated “because I wouldn’t have made this easy for you.”

“Well, thanks for that tidbit, I thought,” Shields quipped in the memoir. “You just made this particular transition so much easier!”

Shields was married to Agassi between 1997 and 1999 and spoke extensively about their troubled relationship. referring to it many times in this book. (Agassi, and former a professional tennis playerbeen married to Steffi Graf since 2001.)

“One of the reasons I married Andre was that I liked being in a relationship with someone more famous than I was,” Shields explained elsewhere in the biography. “After a lifetime of always being the focus, it was a relief to be able to slip into the background a bit. He was a brave guy too, and I loved that.”

Shields, on the other hand, called her marriage a “controlling, rigid relationship” and shared a discussion she had with Agassi about her body.

“When I would confess my insecurities to my first husband, he would always say, ‘I wish you saw 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 reaction,” Shields wrote, noting that she was referring to herself as a pregnant woman.

Agassi’s answer, according to Shields, was: “I love you too much to let you get big and fat!”

Shields acknowledged that this was an “unfair question” to ask but “definitely did not” anticipate that answer.

“I started to spin a little,” he continued. “But we all know how that relationship turned out, so let’s move on.”

Following their divorce, Shields moved on with Chris Henchy. He met Henchy in 1999 “in the gym on the Warner Bros.” while she was still married to Agassi.

“We became friendly because we would see each other in that gym from time to time — I was working on Suddenly Susan, he was writing for a show on the lot — but we didn’t start until the following year, after I was divorced,” he wrote.

Shields and Henchy married in 2001 and share two daughtersRowan, 21, and Grier, 18.

Brooke Shields Doesn’t Get Old out now.