Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships.

My name is Stacey and Alicia, you've got one that has been a long time coming.

Exactly.

Bonjour Brigitte Bardot. It's Alicia here, Trash Pandas, and thank you everybody for joining us for today's tale of Marital Misadventure

for the first time or almost the 600th, as we are in season 32 of this adventure. Stacey, I'm really

delighted, I think, to be bringing to you and all the folks out there, the trashy saga of Brigitte Bardo, the French actress.

Brigitte is our focus this week, and she is a woman to be remembered certainly in a lot of ways.

First up, kind of impressive. In less than 21 years, Brigitte Bardot made 47 films and perhaps leaves an impact that will last in ways you and I will not live exactly to see.

Biographer Marie Dominique LaLivra said about Brigitte Bardot, she is the first woman to have publicly displayed her sexual freedom.

Before Bardo, a woman who changed lovers at the slightest whim was called a bitch, a salop, which in French means a slut.

La Livra says, after Bardoaux such a woman was simply seen as a

liberate. Unlike Hollywood actresses who played by the rules, Bordeaux set her own. She attracted

women who wanted to do like her and men who simply wanted her.

That's a pretty good setup.

Brigitte Bardo is described as a tight rope of paradox.

And let me tell y'all, it's trashy in a lot of ways.

She had four marriages, three divorces, that last trip down the altar lasting

the years through her death. Brigitte Bardot also had a whole lot of lovers and scandals and a

tsunami of changing the culture in so many ways in her lifetime and some very forward ways

and then maybe some other ways that were

and are perhaps a bit backwards sure honestly a whole lot of contradictions the most beautiful

woman in the world a sex symbol also a lonely kid a lover of animals which is for as much as she loves animal creatures, people,

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