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Brooke Sheilds has shared an emotional post about her "extraordinary" daughter going off to college.
The 56-year-old actress opened up about how she is dealing with her daughter, Rowan, 18, living away from home for the first time, detailing the "saddest" drive home.
"My unique and extraordinary baby girl spreading her wings. I love you so" the Jane the Virgin star wrote. "We are so proud of you. This was the saddest drive away from anywhere I've ever had to make. But my baby is BEGINNING one of the most important adventures of her life to date...NOW!"
The moving caption was accompanied by shots of Shields and her family at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where they helped Rowan move into her dorm room.
She also shared snaps from a campus visit as well as the aforementioned sad drive home.
Christie Brinkley, Faith Ford and Debie Mazar are among the star's high profile friends to offer her support.
"Major milestone emotional moment," model Brinkley commented while Mazar of Goodfellas fame added: "Amazing! I know that drive. Growing pains. But everyone stronger from it!"
Ford from sitcom Murphy Brown also replied with love hearts.
"Launching is difficult and fulfilling. You've nourished and taught her. She will soar!" added ABC News Network Correspondent, Deborah Roberts.
Earlier this year, Shields shared photos from Rowan's graduation.
"My baby girl's graduation and she performed at the celebration #waterproofmascara," she said in June.
Shields is also mom to another teen daughter, Grier, who is 15 years old, with her husband Chris Henchy.
Shields has long been open about motherhood and wrote about her experience with postpartum depression for her 2005 memoir "Down Came the Rain."
She also wrote a second memoir which was published in 2014 titled "There Was a Little Girl: The Real Story of My Mother and Me."
Speaking about coping her daughters growing up, Shields told HuffPost in 2017: "I'm terrified that I'm not really understanding who they are, and that maybe one day they won't feel like they can come to me—that I will somehow fail them."
She added at the time: "I don't know if you overcome it. The way I try to get through it is by talking to other moms. Either someone will do something that's seemingly worse, and I'll think, 'At least I didn't do that,' but then someone will do something better and I think, 'I've gotta learn that, I've got to do that instead!'"
