15 main incarnations of Brigitte Bardot

September 28, 1934 in Paris, was born Brigitte Ann-Marie Bardot. Her life is full of contradictions, but her talent and outstanding appearance is admirable. Famous French actress and singer, a fierce defender of animals and implacable fighter against immigrants and homosexuals, sex symbol and a symbol of France - it's all about her ...

Bardot - dancer

Under the influence of the mother Bardo, along with her younger sister since childhood she danced. Brigitte, who was not an apt pupil in the school, but have a natural plasticity and grace, decided to focus on ballet career. In 1947, she passed the entrance examination to the National Dance Academy and, in spite of the rigorous selection process and the limited number of places, was among the eight enrolled in training. For three years she attended the class of Russian choreographer Boris Knyazev.

Bardot - a model of

In 1949, 15-year-old Brigitte has already participated in a fashion show at the invitation of a friend of mother; shot for Jardin des Modes magazine ( "Fashion Garden") in the same year. A little later, the first time appeared on the cover of ELLE magazine and has been seen novice director Roger Vadim.

Bardot - actress

For the first time a future star starred in a movie in 1952, her 21-year career in the film industry has more than 50 films. World fame came to Brigitte for her role in the film "And God Created Woman" in 1956, where she played the main character - unrestrained eighteen Juliette Hardy, tossing between several men. Historians consider painting a harbinger of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Bardot - sex symbol

In 1950, Brigitte was in Europe in the same sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe for America. In 1995, she became the 9th on the list of "100 Sexiest Stars in film history," the magazine Empire, and in 2011 entered the list of "100" hottest "women of all ages" Men's Health magazine. "Actually, I'm a cat, was transformed into a woman. I purring. I scratched. And sometimes I can and bite "- Brigitte Bardot.

Bardo - the symbol of France

Despite its rather scandalous "sex" in popularity, in 1970, Brigitte was chosen as a model for the bust of Marianne, the symbol of France. Marianne (Marianne) - a national symbol and the nickname of France since the Great French Revolution. She is the personification of the French national motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity." Busts of Marianne (and with them, and a bust of Brigitte) is a mandatory attribute of government institutions, courts and municipalities, and its image placed on the French public printing, postage stamps and coins.

Bardot - a wife and mother

As far as family life, then there is a woman-cat everything was not so smooth. Total Brigitte was married 4 times, but the most notable, perhaps, is the story of her second marriage to actor Jacques Charrier, which in 1960 gave birth to her son Nicolas Bardo. Motherhood and family life were, to put it mildly, do not like a star. When the son was 2 years old, she wanted to leave her husband. After the divorce, she left the child to grow up in a family Charrier. In his book of memoirs "Initials BB" Brigitte admits she felt "great love" for Charrier and married him only because it was waiting for the child, which, incidentally, did not want to. When Nicolas was born, she "did not want to see him again." In response to such claims ex-husband had no choice but to write their own "response" book, presenting on its pages Bardot as a frivolous beauty, heartless mother and vile wife. According to Jacques, he wrote, "the true story of their relationship," not only to protect his honor and that of his son, but also slightly lower to the ground Bardot, created in his memoirs from the truth image of a fragile woman angel, painfully seeking love. "It's better to be incorrect than correct against the will" - Brigitte Bardot.

Bardot - defender of animals

In 1973, shortly before his fortieth birthday, Bardot announced the completion of his film career and has dedicated her life to the struggle further for animal rights. In 1986 she opened "Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the welfare and protection of animals" and earned 3 million francs by selling at auction jewelry and personal belongings to support the fund.

September 28, 2009, in his 75 th birthday, Bardot in an open letter issued a request to the actress Sophia Loren stop wearing fur. According to her, it would be for her the best present. Lauren did not answer.

Now Brigitte lives alone in a villa a few hundred animals. "The dog hurts only when he dies" - Brigitte Bardot.

Bardot - a fighter with immigrants

protector of animals was not as kind to some representatives of the people. Since the 1990s, Brigitte repeatedly criticizes the immigration and Islam in France, homosexuality and interracial marriages, resulting in five times has been condemned "for inciting ethnic hatred." June 3, 2008 ended court with the largest fine in her life - 15 000 euros, received due to a letter addressed to Nicolas Sarkozy in which Bardot opposed the ritual of cutting the throat of sheep in the Muslim feast without stunning and decried fast-growing Muslim community, trying to capture power and spread their culture, values and lifestyles. The prosecutor said that already tired indict Bardot because racial hatred.

"We've had enough of this population that surrounds us, that we destroy, destroying our country by imposing our own customs" - Brigitte Bardot of Muslim immigrants.

Bardot - singer

During his career in show business Brigitte has recorded 80 songs performed at various music shows. Several hits she recorded with her lover Serge Gainsbourg, including the infamous "I love you ... I love you too, no" (Je t'aime ... moi non plus). Despite the fact that the song was dedicated to Brigitte, she begged Serge did not publish their record, so a year later, her singing voice was replaced by Jane Birkin.

Bardot - a source of inspiration

It is known that Brigitte Bardot was the beauty ideal for the young John Lennon. As a symbol of the 50's, its name is mentioned in many popular songs, including hits by The Who (It's Not Enough), Red Hot Chili Peppers (Warlocks), Bob Dylan (I Shall Be Free), Elton John (I Think I ' m Going to Kill Myself) and Nina Hagen (Frühling in Paris). In the movie-musical "Across the Universe", based on the 34 compositions of The Beatles, her portrait adorns Princeton University dormitory where heroes live pictures.

Bardot - trendsetter

It is thought that Bardot brought into fashion swimwear bikini, flaunting them at the Cannes Film Festival and in his early films. And plaid clothes, appeared in a pink dress in a cage at his wedding with Jacques Charrier, and hair "sauerkraut": an intermediate option between a high ponytail, and Babette, sloppy poluhvost on top with bangs falling down. Brigitte also contributed to the growth of the popular spa town of Saint-Tropez (France) and Buzios (Brazil) as a place for recreation.

Bardot - designer

In 2010, together with the house Lancel Brigitte invented handbag B.B., which reflects her tastes, her life and her figure. It is now the embodiment of femininity and naturalness - as, indeed, and she Brigitte, who has not done in his life any plastic surgery.

Bardot - a lover of young men

After another divorce (and sometimes even being married) Brigitte started walking virtually every first counter. Most of her lovers were young Alfonso.

"I've always loved beautiful young men. My taste is not the only change from what I'm getting older. And if I still can have them, why not ..? "- Brigitte Bardot.

Bardo - a winner of breast cancer

When 83-year Brigitte was diagnosed with breast cancer, she initially refused treatment, believing that it was her destiny. Only thanks to his girlfriend actress Marina Vlady, who arrived in Saint-Tropez, to persuade her to start treatment, she eventually beat the cancer.

Bardot - a potential Russian citizen

Inspired by the act of Gerard Depardieu, in January 2013 Brigitte Bardot said it may ask for Russian citizenship if in Lyon lull of two elephants patients with tuberculosis.