Brigitte Bardot

thumbnail|Brigitte Bardot in 1962 Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (28 September 1934 – 28 December 2025) was a French actress, singer and fashion model who, after retiring from acting in 1973, became an animal rights activist. She was known internationally as a sex symbol during the 1950s and 1960s. Quotes I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy. Said in 1984, when interviewed on the occasion of her 50th birthday — as reported in Vocabulary Dictionary and Workbook (2006) by Mark Phillips, p. 17 All these animals are put in cages, never see the sun or grass, and they leave this hell only to go to the slaughter-house. For me intensive breeding is a sign of human degeneration. If one can find that acceptable, then we humans have lost all moral value. ...[How long have you been a vegetarian?] Since 1962, when I went on French television to denounce conditions of animal slaughter. That is when I became aware of the horror of factory farming, live transports and the killings of farm animals. I have always been sensitive to animal distress but from then on I refused to be involved in such inhuman industrial deaths. "Brigitte Bardot: 'I became aware of the horror of factory farming". Interview for Primorske novice (November 2009) as reported by European Vegetarian and Animal News Alliance (EVANA) website External links Category:1934 births Category:2025 deaths Category:Animal rights activists Category:Women activists from France Category:Actresses from Paris Category:Women singers from France Category:Models from France Category:Catholics from France Category:Vegetarians Category:Women born in the 1930s