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.
Let’s look on the bright side;she looks well fed and appears to have her own teeth!
Look at the way you people denigrate those who don’t look gorgeous. Miss Bardot DID look perfectly gorgeous once. She had that time. You all have aunts, grandmothers, sisters, wives who may not be “10s.” Yet you like them and enjoy their company. It’s sad that we can’t all remain young and beautiful forever, but we can’t.
Doesn’t Monroe still make a healthy 6 figures these years?
Where was the “BARF ALERT”?<pPregards - red
So are some on this thread.
Aging is a horrible thing, a disease which will eventually be conquered. Probably right after I die from it =).
Looks like Sally Struthers.
She is being real. The people in hollyweird have to spend thousands of dollars and many of their people have to be at their beckon call to look what they consider beautiful. They are plastic that is forever being heated up to make a new shape. In todays world it is what one looks like and NOT what is inside the person,who they REALLY are. Thank God she is no longer one of the GREAT PRETENDERS!Our youth today,and some old folks too,worship the celebrity lifestyle. Abortion,homosexuality,anti-God,anti-Christian,the list goes on.
You sure that “after” picture isn’t Sally Struthers?
Don’t look at any recent pics of Grace Slick!!!
She was hot too-40 years ago....
You are correct. She has exchanged her outer beauty for inner beauty. I can always look at pictures of the young Bardot, but I like listening to the old Bardot.
Personnally, I'm disgusted to see 61 year old "Cher" prance about in skin tight body suits. And thats before she opens her mouth and says something political.
Adrian had great looking twins.
Amen. Cher has a nasty,potty mouth. Nothing is attractive about that woman.
Come on guys, give her a break. After all, she IS 73 years old. How do you think you will look at that age? So, be kind. Anyways, I’ve seen worse.
We call her Adrian Barboobs
Everyone gets old. I applaud Ms. Bardot letting nature take its course, rather than turning herself into a grotesque mask through plastic surgery.
you are not serious. That’s not her is it? Obviously too much sun.
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