BROOKE SHIELDS HOBBLES AROUND AFTER FOOT SURGERY
Years of wearing heels and dancing on stage has taken its toll on Brooke Shields’ feet.
The actress, 42, was spotted hobbling around LA on crutches yesterday after undergoing an operation on an old tendo
n injury.
After wearing a series of glamorous stilettos in her new TV series Lipstick Jungle, Brooke is taking advantage of the gap between seasons to undergo the painful procedure.
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Ouch: Brooke Shields doesn’t let her crutches stop her from shopping for her children in LA yesterday
After leaving a Beverly Hills hospital on Saturday, the mother-of-two will have to rest for two months to give her feet time to recover.
Painful: Brooke Shields admits her injury meant wearing heels in Lipstick Jungle was agonyDespite her limited mobility, devoted mum Brooke braved her pain to visit some children’s stores in Santa Monica to buy some gifts for her two daughter Rowan, four; and Grier, two.
Brooke was set to have the surgery last month, but postponed the operation so she could appear on Late Night with David Letterman.
Speaking to chat show host Letterman last month, Brooke said she has suffered from the hammer toe condition for years and was in constant pain – especially on the set of Lipstick Jungle where her character Wendy Healy wears ankle-breaking designer shoes.
She said: “Just walking, I’m in pain and when I work I have to wear high heels all the time.
“I’m gonna have them both done at the same time; there’s no way I would go back and go through it twice.
“For two months it’ll take the bones to heal and then I can be a dork and do scrapbooks of my kids.”
This is the second surgery Brooke has had on her feet. The old injury re-appeared when she played murderous vixen Roxie Hart in the Broadway and London productions of the musical Chicago in 2005.
Lipstick Jungle, adapted from Sex And The City writer Candace Bushnell’s best-selling book, will hit British TV screens later this year.
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I have hammertoes too and they are so painful! I don’t want to have surgery just yet, I would like to hold off if I can. But, I have been wearing the Pedifix Single Toe Straightener lately to help with the pain. It really seems to work. It holds my toes down and makes it easier to wear shoes. If anyone is interested in trying it, I ordered it online at Therawear.com and I think the website is http://www.therawear.com/pedifix_single_toe_straightener.html. I hope this helps!