Brooke Shields Lost Her Virginity to Dean Cain

Brooke Shields and Dean Cain. Photo: Getty

Brooke Shields admits she was "the most celebrated virgin of our time" - and she can only laugh about how everyone is still talking about it.

In her new book, There Was a Little Girl, the star reveals new details about the obsession with her (nonexistent) sex life and explains how she first slept with her college boyfriend (and future Superman) Dean Cain when she was 22.

"The whole virginity thing happened quite genuinely," says Shields, 49. When she met Cain at Princeton University, they were "instantly crazy" about each other. They were, "always holding hands and trying to find ways to be alone and kiss, but poor guy, I made him wait."

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Now, she says, "I think it was more tortuous for him."

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After they had sex, Shields became so overwhelmed that she jumped out of their bed. "I actually kind of tumbled off it and started running," she writes in her memoir. "I was buck naked streaking down the hallway and running like I had just stolen someone's wallet."

Cain ran after her with the comforter and asked her where she was going. "I didn't know where I began and where my mother ended," writes Shields of her confusion. "And that meant I didn't know how to fit Dean in." (They broke up soon after.)

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Shields recently called Cain to let him know she was including the memorable episode in her book.

"He said 'As long as you're happy with it, I'm comfortable with it,' " she says. "There's nothing sordid about it. He's such a good guy and a sweet human being."

Still, she adds, "Of course, I wasn't present emotionally but that's a couple of years more therapy."

Shields can only marvel at the fact that her virginity became such an obsession. "To this day, we're still talking about it, and my kids were in vitro so, who knows?" she says. "Maybe the jury is still out on that one."