Teri Shields, who  promoted her infant daughter, Brooke, as a model and actress and allowed her to be cast as a child prostitute in a movie, died  today in Manhattan after a long illness related to dementia. She was 79. Shields was a single mother when she began managing the “career” of her 11-month-old daughter Brooke, finding a job for her in an ad for Ivory soap. When Brooke was 10, the elder Shields arranged for a photographer to take controversial nude pictures of Brooke. Then she let her 12-year-old play the daughter of prostitute Susan Sarandon in Louis Malle’s 1978 film Pretty Baby, set in 1917 New Orleans. And there was that famously quotable Calvin Klein jeans campaign at 15. Shields later explained that she had been like any parent who tries to do what she thinks best for her child. “Fortunately, Brooke was at an age where she couldn’t talk back,” she said. (More at NYT; 1981 photo by Jack Mitchell)