Brooke Shields was a teenage phenomenon and well on her way to A-list super stardom. By the time she was 18, everyone thought she would become a great leading movie star. But then she decided to suspend her career in movies and modeling and attend Princeton University to obtain a college degree beginning in 1983.
At the time, many critics felt that her ongoing career would lose momentum and she would not be able to recover. When she once again returned to acting after getting her degree about 7 and 8 years later, she was only offered minor roles. Her popularity, as critics prophesied, had waned and she never recovered.
And, of course, she still hasn’t regained the promise she had as a teenage actress.