Brooke Shields began her illustrious career as a child actor managed by her mother, Teri Shields. They loved each other very much, as Shields recalled on the "TODAY Show" Wednesday, citing the biggest challenge for her was her mother's alcohol addiction.

"Hollywood didn't undo me," Shields said. "Being famous at a young age didn't really undo me. Loving an alcoholic was sort of my emotional undoing to a certain extent."

Hollywood.com reported the model-turned-actress staged her mother's first alcohol intervention when Shields was 13 years old. "The Blue Lagoon" star's parents divorced when she was a baby. Shields often threatened to leave and live with her father if the drinking didn't stop, but threats were unsuccessful.

"I had to be very careful, because I said, 'I'm going to live with my father if you don't stop drinking,' but then I had to be careful that my dad didn't think that that was an insult. But, it never really worked. She never really worked a (recovery) program. She went into rehab three times," she said.

Shields said she felt safer on movie sets than living alone with her mother.

Shield's new tell-all memoir "There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me" was published on Nov. 18 and reveals, among other things, her mother's approval of 11-year-old Brooke's nude scene in "Pretty Baby" and losing her virginity to Dean Cain when they were Princeton students.

As if the new memoir wasn't disturbing enough, Shields recently encased herself in a sparkling hot pink box as a life-size Barbie, seen in a photo she posted to Instagram on Monday with the caption, "I made this thanks to you #ContainerStore!!"

The 49-year-old was dolled up in an emerald green, sparkling blouse and full skirt inside the box complete with a transparent front, gold ribbon on top and Barbie logo. She mimicked Barbie's frozen smile perfectly.

In 1982, 16-year-old Shields had a Barbie doll created in her likeness after she skyrocketed to fame.