Brigitte Bardot was one of the most popular celebrities at one time. Now she is a grandmother and has lived a fulfilling life. Now if you want to know more about her granddaughter who followed in her footsteps then keep reading…
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was born on September 28, 1934, in France. She was only 15 years old before she began modeling and began an amazing career. She aspired to be a ballerina. And in her teenage years, she appeared on the cover of Elle magazine.
Soon she caught the attention of a lot of people. She began acting in the 1950s, European post-war generation, Brigitte became a sex symbol. Her role in And God Created Beauty in 1956 propelled her into major stardom.
She came from a wealthy family of industrialists. And as a child she considered herself ‘ugly,’ and hence never could have imagined that she would become a sex symbol for the ages.
“I’m a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian,” she later said.
Her first sizeable English-language role came when she portrayed the love interest of Dirk Bogarde in Doctor at Sea. In the mid-1960s, she plotted to make it big, setting her sights on an international breakthrough.
The French native featured in her first Hollywood film in 1966, but it wasn’t easy to please the American audience, and the movie (Dear Brigitte) was not a big hit.
With her long blonde locks, flawless complexion, sensory pout and voluptuous curves, it was hard not to notice Brigitte. But her movies in Tinseltown flopped and became box-office disappointments. People had high expectations when she starred opposite Sean Connery in the Western movie Shalako, but the 1968 film received mixed reviews.
In 1973, Brigitte shocked a lot of fans when she announced her retirement. She was still a big star and very much active in the entertainment industry.
But that was also the reason she decided to pull the plug: the sheer weight of celebrity life suffocated her in the end.
“The majority of great actresses met tragic ends. When I said goodbye to this job, to this life of opulence and glitter, images and adoration, the quest to be desired, I was saving my life,” Bardot told The Guardian.
“In the beginning, I enjoyed having people talking about me, but very quickly, it suffocated and destroyed me. Throughout my 20 years starring in movies, each time filming began, I would break out with herpes.”
