Over the years, she’s proven that she’s more than just a pretty face. An emblematic figure of the 1950s and 1970s, Brigitte Bardot is one of the most famous French actresses in the world. Free and unconventional, the 88-year-old ex-actress was the emblem of the emancipation of women and sexual freedom, in particular thanks to her roles half-woman-child, half- femme fatale. However, the one who stopped the cinema in 1973 had been much criticized after the success of the film And God created the womandirected by her ex-husband Roger Vadim. “I never thought for a moment of embodying the women’s liberation movement. I did all of this because I refused to stay behind the bars of the conventions of the time: I wanted to be myself”she confided on Wednesday August 16, 2023 in the columns of the Point. If the one we nicknamed “BB” has chained the successes in the cinemait hasn’t always been easy for her. “My freedom sometimes cost me dearly, you know. I was hunted down, insulted, dragged through the mud because of my way of life. Often, I met women in the street who called me a whore”said Brigitte Bardot, mother of an only son, Nicolas, and wife of Bernard d’Ormale for more than 30 years.
Brigitte Bardot: “Everyone looked at me as if I had gone crazy”
If his name was on everyone’s lips, Brigitte Bardot didn’t have many friends in the film industry. “There was Mylene Demongeot, with whom I started, and then also two great friends of Roger Vadim, my first husband, who became mine: Robert Hossein and Maurice Ronet. If I add Alain Delonthe list ends there.estimated with the Point the ex-actress, recently victim of respiratory discomfort. After 45 films, however, she has turned the page by founding the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986. “I said to a journalist from France-Soir, who took it over: ‘Now I’m changing my life, I’m quitting the cinema and I’m defending the animal cause.’ Everyone looked at me as if I had gone crazy. We thought it was an actress’ whim”, she amused. Today, Brigitte Bardot fights for animals. “A long time ago I said that after giving my youth and my beauty to men, I wanted give the best of myself to the animals. But that doesn’t stop me from taking care of people in distress, many of whom write to me.” she still declared to the Point.