Brooke Shields said her 23-year-old daughter, Rowan, phoned her to warn that she had been mentioned in Love Story, the series about John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Shields said the call made the whole thing feel “a little weird.”
Rowan, who worked as a production assistant on the series, told her mother, “Oh my God, you’re mentioned in Love Story,” prompting Shields to ask, “Is it true?” She said she answered, “OK, I'd be happy to tell you all the stories if you want,” before adding, “but—yes.”
The mention mattered because Love Story revisited a chapter Shields has spoken about before: her short-lived romance with Kennedy Jr. On the show, he says he and Shields never dated but did share a kiss, and she later confirmed to Rowan that the kiss happened. In March, Rowan also recruited her mother for a TikTok about Kennedy Jr.’s kissing ability, turning a private memory into a family joke.
Shields had already gone public with parts of the story in 2023, saying on The Howard Stern Show that she and Kennedy Jr. had a real date and met in Aspen. She said she would not sleep with him because she “kind of loved him too much,” and recalled that after dinner with his family, he kissed her. “He kissed me, and it was like the best kiss I've ever had in my life,” she said.
That was not the only way she remembered him. Shields has described Kennedy Jr. as “down to earth and funny and irreverent,” and said the kiss stayed with her long after the romance faded. She called it “One of the best.”
Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999 with Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette. Against that backdrop, the renewed attention around Love Story is less about a new revelation than the way old celebrity history keeps resurfacing in public, especially when family members are now old enough to work on the same projects and ask the questions themselves. For Shields, the answer is unchanged: yes, the kiss happened, and yes, it was memorable.
