Brooke Shields: If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Brooke Shields

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I would erase my fear of dying, but I suppose that would be erasing some of my human condition.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

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Steve Buscemi

Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 September 2025 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗

Henry Winkler

My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 August 2018 source ↗

Stephen Fry Actor, writer and broadcaster

My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗

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Question Which living person do you most admire, and why? Values & belief

Gloria Steinem.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

Question What do you value most in your friends? Relationships

Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

Question What is your idea of perfect happiness? Identity & self

Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗

Question When were you happiest? Time & hindsight

On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

Question What is your greatest fear? Identity & self

Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, February 2025 source ↗

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