BRIGITTE BARDOT: ANIMAL ACTIVIST.

Contemporary Review | November 1, 1999| | Copyright

After a stress-filled life as France's Marilyn Monroe, complete with paparazzi sieges and several suicide attempts, Brigitte Bardot gave up her trade in the early 1970s, entering what she called 'the religion of animals'. Liberated from film-making, Bardot's new emphasis crescendoed in the mid-'70s, when she became obsessed with the annual seal cull on the ice floes off Newfoundland.

After a failed attempt to go there in person, she started up her first Brigitte Bardot Wildlife Foundation with eminent names on board, including Cousteau. Unfortunately this first ...

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