Brooke Shields’s Essentials That Help Her Feel Her Best
When you’re a super-busy multi-hyphenate, staying on top of your schedule is the key to maintaining your sanity. Although Shields (like everyone) has a calendar on her phone, she’s proudly “still on paper” when it comes to keeping her affairs in order.
In fact, she sometimes rewrites entire sections of her digital calendar by hand when she’s feeling stressed.
“I can see [my schedule] on the computer, but it doesn’t go in my brain the way it does on paper,” she explained. “If I get my diary out and I rewrite it and I look at the week, I sort of register it … It’s such a dumb, dorky thing to do, [but] it makes my blood pressure go down.” (It’s not dumb; research supports this!)
Her diary of choice is a leather-bound planner from Pineider, a 250-year-old Italian brand, which she first received as a gift. (She goes to the same podiatrist as the brand’s owner, she says — only in Hollywood!) Before that, she preferred to buy diaries with red covers, but after receiving her first Pineider planner bound in a beautiful, buttery yellow, she’s now loyal to that color.
