abroad. Hers was the image everyone from fashion designers to hairstylists to aspiring models wanted to emulate. The girl on the street could be seen prancing around in Bardot-styled jeans.
Bardot's life was by no means consistently glamorous. In all, she married four times, and, perhaps coincidentally, is known to have attempted suicide four times. "I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life," she has said. "Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want to throw myself off my balcony and know people would photograph me lying dead below."
Bardot retired from films in 1974 and has since devoted herself to the protection of animals. A zealous and often militant advocate of animal rights, she has often gone to what many have considered
