“I was always looking for passion. That’s why I was often unfaithful. When the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase”, the famous actress has stated
“And God made Bébé.” She was the ultimate French bombshell, the epitome of femininity, the muse of the greatest artists. The first to wear ballet flats on the street, she was photographed in a bikini in Cannes in 50 and balanced between overt sexuality and irresistible freedom. Her messy blonde hair and black eyeliner became her trademark.
“I gave away my youth and my beauty to men. I will give my wisdom and experience to the animals.” Brigitte Bardot has stated.
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But today, in light of the #MeToo movement, how does the ultimate French star see things? It is true that Brigitte Bardot – several years ago – turned her back on her film career to become an activist for animals, while donating much of her fortune to victims of abuse.
But the famous actress was never forgotten. At the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, the press agreed: “She outshone them all”
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There were… “riots” wherever he went – when he was visiting Picasso in 1956, or in Venice in 1958 when 300 cameramen sank their boat. A plane carved her initials into the sky. Brigitte Bardot was fresh and erotically provocative.
It appeared on the international stage in the 1950s, at the same time as Nabokov’s Lolita.
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No one had ever seen anyone quite like Bardot in public – the feminine curves, the girlish ponytail or the loose tuft of her blonde hair, the cheap shirt tied under her bodice…
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John Lennon had a poster of her on his bedroom ceiling. In 1957, priests in New York were telling people not to see her films. The Vatican, which six years later accused Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of debauchery, condemned Bardot as “wicked”.
Bardot’s youth and energy, displayed in the Mediterranean sunshine, were seen as shameless, depraved. Her flesh was identified with sin.
The fact is that the image of the actress, in magazines and on the screen, brought France more revenue than the export sales of Renault cars. She was the most famous in France after Charles de Gaulle. Andy Warhol said Bardot was “one of the first women who was truly modern”. And so it was.
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She rarely wore jewelry. She was not interested in diamonds or perfumes. She wore ballet flats or walked barefoot. People went to the cinema to see her in a bikini. Bardot showed off her waist and navel, something the American Hays Code, which applied strict moral control to films, tried to suppress. In her films, Bardot is a delight in baggy pajamas, jeans, straw hats and coats. Her dresses have plunging necklines.
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Bardot remains important as a fashion icon, as a figure completely inaccessible to ordinary mortals. In 1959, for example, it was the inspiration for the Barbie doll, as well as for the character of Barbarella, played in the film adaptation by Jane Fonda. Britney Spears could be a modern counterpart, or Claudia Schiffer and Kate Moss. But in terms of her time, Bardot was unique, because she suddenly became an “antidote” to the years of German occupation, which is why she said with such emotion: “I live as if I am going to die at any moment.”
He categorically refused invitations to Hollywood. Despite claims of her carefree image, she didn’t look carefree in the background.
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She was born into a rather rigid and typical Parisian family, with her father a factory owner. He would beat his daughter if she dropped dishes. There was a large apartment in the city, a weekend house in the country, a cottage in St. Tropez. Bardot took dance lessons, which contributed to her posture. Unlike Elizabeth Taylor or Marilyn Monroe, she never had weight problems.
By 1948, Bardot was a hat model for ‘Elle’. At the age of 15, she was on their cover. With a blunt and provocative look, he was photographed by “Paris-Match” shortly after.
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At the age of 17, she met Roger Vadim. “He looked at me, he scared me, he attracted me. I didn’t know where I was anymore.” To overcome parental objections to the relationship, Bardot attempted suicide by putting her head in the oven. She married her second husband, actor Jacques Sarrier, in 1959, only because she was pregnant with their son Nicolas.
Bardot would have preferred an abortion, but the prospect was too scandalous, let alone illegal. “I want there to be no hypocrisy, no nonsense about love,” she said harshly and confessed that immediately after giving birth: “I started screaming, begging them to take him away. I never wanted to see him again.”
Her son was raised by Charrier’s family. Growing up, he lived a life Bardot had no idea about. In 1984, when he married a Norwegian supermodel, his mother was not invited to the wedding. They had no contact until 1996, when he took her to court for invasion of privacy over what she had written about him in a book. Bardot was obliged to pay him compensation. Since then, mother and son have reconciled. Many lovers have come and gone – including songwriter Sacha Distel and actor Warren Beatty.
“I was always looking for passion,” explained Bardot. “That’s why I was often unfaithful. When the passion was coming to an end, I was packing my suitcase.”
Serge Gainsbourg wrote the song “Je T’aime Moi Non Plus” after his fling with Bardot. One co-star who failed to find favor, even briefly, with Bardot was Sean Connery. “I never succumbed to his charms,” he said.
Bardot’s third marriage was to a wealthy German, who committed suicide in 2011.
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The actress found the love she was looking for in animals. He had 220 cats, 30 dogs, 250 goats and countless rabbits and donkeys. She donated her home in north-central France to become an animal sanctuary – named the Brigitte Bardot Foundation. He campaigned against the seal cull in Canada, the dolphin cull in the Faroe Islands and the fate of polar bears in Alaska.
Bardot’s comments and insults have often landed her in court, notably as she insists she is “tired of being under the control of this population, which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its customs”.
Bardot’s fourth husband was a former adviser to Jean-Marie Le Pen. Bardot dislikes homosexuals and accuses hunters with their guns of being drunkards and primitives.
Rarely for a star, she has no interest in plastic surgery, saying: “When I’m in front of the camera, I’m just being myself».
Source :Skai
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