Brooke Shields was terrified of being left alone with her daughter Rowan shortly after the delivery - because she was certain the baby was far more intelligent than her.

The "Blue Lagoon" star endured a hellish bout of depression after the 2003 birth of her first offspring with husband Chris Henchy, and even contemplated suicide, reports the Internet Media Database.

But Shields was particularly disturbed when she found that she feared her own baby. "I was terrified to be alone with her and it wasn't so much of I wouldn't know how to take care of her, it was she seemed like she knew more than I did.

"She seemed smarter, she seemed aware, she had this like little old person, like she's got it figured out and I felt like she knew all my secrets. I thought, 'God, you know way too much about me,' and I wasn't even sure I liked her. I was talking to her like she was a therapist."

Shields' relationship with her daughter improved immensely once she sought medical help for her depression.