Brigitte Bardot has died today age 91 years old

[Bella]

Brigitte Bardot was an iconic beauty who was much more than the sum of her parts. May she rest in peace.

Photographs of 12-Year-Old Brigitte Bardot taken by Boris Lipnitzki while attending Mrs. Bourgat’s ballet class on the Rue Spontini, Paris in 1946.




Brigitte Bardot made her first appearance at the 6th International Cannes Film Festival to promote the film Manina, la fille sans voiles or The Girl in the Bikini (1952). Pictured here in 1953 she’s just 19 and looks more the aspiring ballerina she once was than the mind-blowing sex symbol and icon she would become.


... with Kirk Douglas


Photographs of a very young and beautiful Brigitte Bardot in the 1950s.



Brigitte Bardot visited Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes in 1956.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

Brigitte Bardot was an iconic beauty who was much more than the sum of her parts. May she rest in peace.

Photographs of 12-Year-Old Brigitte Bardot taken by Boris Lipnitzki while attending Mrs. Bourgat’s ballet class on the Rue Spontini, Paris in 1946.




Brigitte Bardot made her first appearance at the 6th International Cannes Film Festival to promote the film Manina, la fille sans voiles or The Girl in the Bikini (1952). Pictured here in 1953 she’s just 19 and looks more the aspiring ballerina she once was than the mind-blowing sex symbol and icon she would become.


... with Kirk Douglas


Photographs of a very young and beautiful Brigitte Bardot in the 1950s.



Brigitte Bardot visited Pablo Picasso at his studio near Cannes in 1956.

These are such nice pics Bella, thanks for sharing them of Brigitte ~
Beautiful lady!

 

[Babs2u]

possibly, and in recent years she's been a bit of a hetful person making comments against all sorts of sections of the populace


Her controversial remarks have appeared in her books and on her foundation's website. Some key examples include:

• Muslims and Immigration: Bardot has frequently criticized the Muslim community and immigration. She stated that Muslims are "destroying our country by imposing their ways".
• She has also referred to France being "invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims" and has declared herself "against the Islamisation of France". She also deplored the ritual slaughter of animals for Eid al-Adha, calling it an "abominable trade". In 2021, she was fined for referring to inhabitants of Reunion as "aboriginals who have kept the genes of savages".
• LGBTQ+ Community: Bardot has also made homophobic comments. In her 2003 book, she contrasted her "close gay friends" with contemporary homosexuals, using derogatory language. She also referred to some gay people behaving like "fairground freaks" and made negative remarks about transgender people.
• General Humanity and Family: Bardot has expressed disdain for humanity, stating she "hate most of the human species" and prefers animals. She has also made highly controversial remarks about her own family, referring to her son as a "cancerous tumor" in her memoirs.
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Bardot has been convicted and fined six times for inciting racial hatred. While she has sometimes offered apologies in court, stating it was "not in her character" to hurt anyone, she has also been a public supporter of the far-right French nationalist party National Rally.

That would explain her older face.

 

[Mike]

Very sad, she entertained millions with her movies,
R.I.P. Brigitte.

Mike.

 

[OldFeller]

This is on Facebook/Billy Mumy Actor...

 

[Texguy]

R.I.P.

 

[Texguy]

 

[jujube]

She was my alter-ego. In my dreams, I was a beautiful long-haired shapely blonde named Brigitte who lived at the beach and dated handsome guys. Just as far from my hum-drum Midwest life as possible.

That is, when I wasn't being a princess named Esmeralda....my other alter-ego.

 

[MrPants]

Rest in Peace dear Brigette The world has lost an icon of beauty & class.

Brigitte Bardot's 1960s vacation in the sleepy fishing village of Búzios, Brazil, transformed it into a glamorous resort, making her the icon who put it on the map, forever cementing her legacy with the Orla Bardot (Bardot Boardwalk) and her famous bronze statue, drawing crowds seeking the same charm she found.

(Poor quality photo but this is the bronze statue of her along the boardwalk in Buzios a charming
little fishing villiage on the east coast of Brazil).

Brigette sitting on her suitcase, ready to leave after her vacation in Buzios in1960.

 

[seadoug]

We've visited St. Tropez a couple of times and, needless to say, she is still an idol there. There are still posters of her in shop windows. She was beautiful in her younger years and divisive in her later years. Regardless RIP.

 

[seadoug]

possibly, and in recent years she's been a bit of a hateful person making comments against all sorts of sections of the populace


Her controversial remarks have appeared in her books and on her foundation's website. Some key examples include:

• Muslims and Immigration: Bardot has frequently criticized the Muslim community and immigration. She stated that Muslims are "destroying our country by imposing their ways".
• She has also referred to France being "invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims" and has declared herself "against the Islamisation of France". She also deplored the ritual slaughter of animals for Eid al-Adha, calling it an "abominable trade". In 2021, she was fined for referring to inhabitants of Reunion as "aboriginals who have kept the genes of savages".
• LGBTQ+ Community: Bardot has also made homophobic comments. In her 2003 book, she contrasted her "close gay friends" with contemporary homosexuals, using derogatory language. She also referred to some gay people behaving like "fairground freaks" and made negative remarks about transgender people.
• General Humanity and Family: Bardot has expressed disdain for humanity, stating she "hate most of the human species" and prefers animals. She has also made highly controversial remarks about her own family, referring to her son as a "cancerous tumor" in her memoirs.
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Bardot has been convicted and fined six times for inciting racial hatred. While she has sometimes offered apologies in court, stating it was "not in her character" to hurt anyone, she has also been a public supporter of the far-right French nationalist party National Rally.

Wow! I had no idea. She was before my time and I never kept up with her but I heard she became extreme in her political views. Sounds like she cared more for animals than her fellow human beings! Thanks for sharing.

 

[LoveTulips]

Should never have been a mother.

 

[hollydolly]

Should never have been a mother.

No, and she admitted that soon after he was born ... which is why she gave her ex husband full custody of the boy... she did write some terrible things about her ex and her son, in one of her books and the boy and his father had to sue her in court... that's really sad...

I think the son is now 65 years old...

 

[horseless carriage]

Brigitte Bardot's life in later years became defined not by her cinematic glamour, but by her passionate and often controversial activism for animal rights. After retiring from acting in the mid-1970's, Bardot shifted her focus entirely to animal welfare. She established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation, which became a globally recognised voice for animal protection and a cornerstone of her identity in later life.
Her good looks might given young men a certain kind of blood rush but I found the older Brigitte both fascinating and interesting. May she rest in peace.

 

[Paladin1950]

She was definitely one of a kind. Whenever I heard the song Girl From Ipanema, I would think of her for whatever reason. But as the years went by, and I got older, she just didn't seem so special anymore, when I saw photos of her in her youth.