Brigitte Bardot, 91, admitted to hospital in Saint-Tropez with a serious illness and has undergone surgery
Iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot has been hospitalized, according to the country’s media outlets.
Although it was said that the 91-year-old movie star had been there for three weeks due to a ‘serious illness’, no further explanation was given.
Brigitte was staying at her home in Saint-Tropez when she was taken to a hospital in Toulon.
It was claimed that he underwent surgery and is currently recovering, and doctors will continue to monitor his condition.
The Daily Mail has contacted Brigitte’s representatives for comment.
The actress debuted in 1952 with the film Bikini Girl and became one of the most famous French film stars of the post-war period.
91-year-old Brigitte Bardot was hospitalized in Saint-Tropez due to a serious illness and underwent surgery (picture in 2011)
The 91-year-old film star is said to have been there for three weeks with a ‘serious illness’, but no further explanation has been given (pictured in the 1969 film Les Femmes)
In 1956, Brigitte starred in her estranged husband Roger Vadim’s film And God Created Woman; this film became the highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the United States, despite Hollywood’s censorship cuts.
The Parisian was no newcomer to cinema, having starred in many films before and earning the nickname “sex kitten”.
American theater managers were arrested for showing his exploits on the big screen, but press outrage only appealed to audiences.
“There lies Brigitte, stretched from one end of the screen to the other, bottom up and naked as a censor’s eye,” one critic grumbled in a review intended to appeal to morality. Ticket queues got longer.
The controversy didn’t hurt his career. Bardot appeared in more than 45 films and recorded more than 70 songs before retiring in the early 1970s.
John Lennon was a big fan of the French star, famous for his poster hanging on his childhood bedroom wall; The two met briefly in 1968.
Born in Paris on September 28, 1934, she first trained as a ballet dancer at the Paris National Higher Conservatory of Music and Dance.
At the age of 15, Brigette appeared on the front cover of France’s Elle magazine and began to establish herself as a model.
Brigitte was staying at her home in Saint-Tropez when she was admitted to a hospital in Toulon (image 2007)
It was claimed that he had surgery and is currently recovering and doctors will continue to monitor his condition (image 1961)
Her acting career began in 1952, appearing in a series of obscure roles, but she soon began to attract attention when she frolicked on the beach in a tiny bikini at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953.
He said: ‘Yes, I knew I was ugly when I was a child. I said to myself: “I’m ugly, so I should at least be smart and funny and have other things to make up for it.”
‘I knew I had to be the best at something, otherwise I would be nothing. ‘I knew I wanted the world to know about Brigitte Bardot.’
The artist, who has never adhered to tradition, posed nude in Playboy to celebrate her 40th birthday.
She created the Bardot pose, in which she sits with her legs crossed, wearing only a pair of black socks, and because she made the style famous, the Bardot collar was named after her.
Brigette was married four times, to Roger Vadim (1952-57), Jacques Charrier (1959-62), Gunter Sachs (1966-69) and Bernard d’Ormale, whom she married in 1992.
In 1960, with her second husband, she had a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier.
Talking about motherhood, she said: ‘I was not created to be a mother. I don’t know why I think this way because I love animals and children but I’m not adult enough. I know it’s terrible to have to admit this, but I’m not adult enough to care for a child.
In 1973, she quit acting and turned her life in a different direction and founded the Brigitte Bardot Foundation in 1986. He was a committed vegetarian and regularly campaigned for animal rights.
In 2013, a pair of 42-year-old elephants at a zoo in Lyon threatened to seek Russian citizenship and leave France after being denied treatment for tuberculosis.
He described France as an ‘animal cemetery’ but eventually won the case and rescued two former circus animals.
In 2001 he also donated £96,671 over two years to the sterilization and adoption of 300,000 stray dogs in Bucharest.
Not all of her activism work since retiring from acting has been so well received.
He was found guilty by a French court in 2004 and fined £4,000 for ‘inciting racial hatred’ in his book A Cry in the Silence.
He supported Marine Le Pen in the 2017 French elections and told people not to vote for Emmanuel Macron because there was ‘coldness’ in his ‘steel eyes’.
‘Brigitte Bardot’s husband is a friend of Jean-Marie Le Pen, but neither of them are party members. Her close friend Marie-Dominique Lelièvre said Bardot was not a racist or a far-right activist. ‘Bardot is Bardot, she defies definition.’
