The one below must have smoked three cartons a day since she was three! (Claims she's 41 now?)
Posted on 09/28/2007 11:07:15 AM PDT by traumer
n her heyday she was an international sex symbol who starred in a series of hit films including The Girl in the Bikini.
Nowadays, however, Brigitte Bardot has an altogether more sombre public image.
The former actress and model, who turns 73 tomorrow, was wearing a dark business suit while in her home city of Paris to visit French president Nicolas Sarkozy today.
The star was happy to relinquish her status as sex bomb in 1974 and focus on issues closer to her heart Enlarge the image
Rather than strutting provocatively as she did during a hugely successful screen career, she was on crutches because of a nagging hip complaint.
Gone was the trademark pout and cascading blonde locks, to be replaced by sagging jowls covered in heavy make-up and a wiry, unkempt patch of greying hair.
Miss Bardot still lives close to St Tropez, the beach resort in the South of France where she first shot to fame in 1956 with And God Created Woman, and has often blamed excessive exposure to the sun for her poor skin.
Her torrid private life - including numerous failed marriages and affairs - have also been blamed for her frayed appearance as a pensioner.
"She certainly doesn't look like the Brigitte we all remember from the films," said another visitor to the Elysee Palace, where animal rights campaigner Miss Bardot discussed the plight of Canadian seals with Mr Sarkozy.
"One wouldn't say she's aged well," the source added.
Miss Bardot has also repeatedly shunned plastic surgery, making it clear that her days as an international beauty ended when she made her last film in 1974.
Today she said that all she was concerned about was animals threatened with cruelty around the world. "I've had my best birthday present when I turn 73, and that's the news that France is going to definitely refuse all imports of products derived from seals, as France refuses to be compliant in the annual massacre of seals in Canada," she said.
An embargo on such products was announced by the French government in April.
After becoming a star following "And God Created Women", made by her then husband Roger Vadim, Miss Bardot became known as a French cinematic sex kitten who could rival Marilyn Monroe.
She was also an acclaimed model and recorded pop songs with the singer Serge Gainsbourg.
After divorcing Vadim, Bardot was married three more times, as well as having numerous affairs.
In 1986, she set up the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals, launching legal challenges against governments and other institutions to acknowledge the rights of animals. She later ignited controversy with her marriage to a political activist from the far-Right Front National party.
Ah, Sofia! She is still hot! What is she? 65-70? As I understand it she never had any work done to her. Class, just sexy class.
Whatever clock you are marking time with.......that would stop it dead.
I see women at the Gym who are in their 40’s and 50 who are just as firm looking and beautiful today as bardot WAS then.
Not muscle builders either, just fit women who take care of themselves.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/7990/plastic.html You’re wrong.
You could see the early effects of smoking on Bardot’s face when she was in her thirties.
Thats a perk of being online....(chuckle)
Everybody is in perfect shape, young, and ready to take on the world.
Sophia Loren as well
LOL....sometimes it’s better not to know isn’t it.
Y’know what’s really bad about getting old? Having nothing better to do than sit around all day pecking at a keyboard.
The one below must have smoked three cartons a day since she was three! (Claims she's 41 now?)
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Is Father Time the picture on the left?
Hey check out the sites of celebrities without make-up! The beauty on the inside stays the same. We all get old and fall apart away from our youthful beauty.
Good ‘contrast’ photo, traumer...
P.S....anyone finding FR VERY slow?
Bo Derick has a small part in John Corbett’s (her boyfriend) video. She sits on his lap at the picnic and shows up again at the end:
“Good To Go”
http://search.music.yahoo.com/search/?m=video&p=Good+to+go&x=14&y=6
You are correct about smoking and elasticity of the skin (it always causes fine wrinkles around the mouth). I used to think everytime I saw that ‘this is your brain on drugs’ fried egg commercial that they should really just put up a picture of Keith Richards. Do drugs and you will look like this. Vanity...much more potent than reason.
I was NOT prepared for THAT!
OMG!
Gravity and the elements have not been kind to her!
At the minimum, I’d do SOMETHING about the sagging turkey neck!
What’d she look like?
60 miles of bad highway!
What did everyone expect?
The placement of her features may have been more fortunately-placed than most people; but she’s still human.
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