![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_660eb2d811b35.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed19b204.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed269c60.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed1667e0.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed218c15.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed1d148a.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed68419f.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609edb4d6cf.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ed9b63c5.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_64b8fa1a250ca.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609eda0b63e.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609edaae346.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609edeb0596.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609edfddbd5.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609edf71cc6.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609edf8e344.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee1e5a52.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee13dc78.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee41f88b.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee852e95.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee7ba2ab.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee97e39b.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee803db3.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ee8e3119.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609eecc6379.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ef043b0c.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609eefb40fa.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ef47cdf5.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ef314495.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5ba0dc212b06f.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/gallery/1080/na_5f609ef5b3ab1.jpg)
See Also
See Again
© Getty Images
0 / 31 Fotos
Before she was B.B.
- Brigitte Bardot's full name is Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot. Born and raised in Paris, she spent her childhood enjoying the luxuries of an upper class family, but it wasn’t as charming as it sounds.
© Getty Images
1 / 31 Fotos
Rebel with a cause
- Bardot has been quite frank with the media about her strict upbringing, as her father reportedly had stern rules about things like how to act and what to wear. Little did he know he was only pushing her further.
© Getty Images
2 / 31 Fotos
Aspiring ballerina
- Before acting was even an idea for her, Bardot wanted to be a dancer, and she was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where she trained for several years.
© Getty Images
3 / 31 Fotos
Then modeling came along
- Helped along by her social background, Bardot met the director of Elle magazine, Hélène Lazareff, who hired the young teen in 1949 as a model. In 1950, at just 15 years old, Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle, and everything quickly snowballed from there.
© Getty Images
4 / 31 Fotos
Front page to film
- Her cover photo invited an acting offer from director Marc Allégret (center) for his film ‘Les Lauriers sont coupés,’ although she was informed after the audition that she didn’t get the role. What’s important, however, is that at the audition Bardot met screenwriter and director Roger Vadim (right).
© Getty Images
5 / 31 Fotos
Falling in love at 15
- Bardot fell for Roger Vadim, though her parents fiercely objected and threatened to send her off to England. She reportedly put her head into the oven in retaliation, and fortunately they came to the agreement that she would wait till she was 18 to marry Vadim.
© Getty Images
6 / 31 Fotos
Another Elle cover, another film offer
- In 1952, Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle again, and this time actually landed a small film role in Jean Boyer's 1952 'Crazy for Love' ('Le trou normand') starring French actor Bourvil.
© Getty Images
7 / 31 Fotos
Marriage and success with Roger Vadim
- The two were married in 1952, when Bardot was 18. After Bardot's roles in a few comedies where she often played naughty young women, in 1956 the couple made a melodrama together, a film that would launch Bardot into international fame, but that would also mark the end for them.
© Getty Images
8 / 31 Fotos
'And God Created Woman' (1956)
- Directed by Vadim, the film 'Et Dieu Créa la Femme' ('And God Created Woman') garnered international recognition for the pair, but during filming, Bardot fell in love with her co-star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, for whom she left Vadim in 1957. Her reputation as a “sex kitten” had taken flight.
© Getty Images
9 / 31 Fotos
Catching directors' attention
- After Vadim's film, several directors called on her and she starred in many more films, including Christian-Jaque's 1959 'Babette Goes to War' ('Babette s'en va-t-en guerre'), where Bardot co-starred with Jacques Charrier and fell in love again.
© Getty Images
10 / 31 Fotos
Liberation
- Photographs and films further iconized Bardot as a bombshell, which was a new kind of power emerging among women, and the actress became the subject of a 1959 essay by famed French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir, which declared Bardot to be the first liberated woman of post-war France.
© Getty Images
11 / 31 Fotos
Second marriage and motherhood
- In 1959, Bardot married Jacques Charrier, and that same year, at age 25, she became pregnant. She had her first and only child, Nicolas, in 1960, but later she would confess that she didn't want to be a mother and in fact resented her pregnancy and tried to abort it.
© Getty Images
12 / 31 Fotos
Suicide attempt
- On her 26th birthday in 1960, shortly after giving birth, Bardot tried to take her life again at her villa in France. She detailed her struggle with alcohol abuse and self-destructive depression in her autobiography 'Initiales B.B.' She wrote, “You cannot escape the distress which follows great happiness.”
© Getty Images
13 / 31 Fotos
A lifetime of being exploited by men
- Her book revealed the dark side to her glamorous image, one rife with abusive lovers, betrayal, exploitation, and being treated as a prostitute. She wanted to be a ballerina but was turned into a sexual fantasy as a teenager, and it took a serious toll on her.
© Getty Images
14 / 31 Fotos
Nonetheless, she continued
- Still at the height of her stardom, and after divorcing Charrier, the French icon went to London in 1963 to shoot the film 'The Ravishing Idiot' ('Une ravissante idiote') by Edouard Molinaro. She starred alongside American actor Anthony Perkins, and her fame extended further into English territory.
© Getty Images
15 / 31 Fotos
'Le Mépris' (1963)
- Considered to be Bardot's best film, 'Le Mépris' ('Contempt') by Jean-Luc Godard was released in 1963.
© Getty Images
16 / 31 Fotos
Consistent work
- The '60s saw Bardot in more internationally-aimed films, with few major successes but consistent work nonetheless. Most notable was her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film 'Viva Maria!' for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.
© Getty Images
17 / 31 Fotos
A simultaneous music career
- Bardot also performed in musicals and recorded many popular songs in the '60s and '70s, largely in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, and including songs like 'Harley Davidson' and the notorious 'Je t'aime... moi non-plus.'
© Getty Images
18 / 31 Fotos
Third marriage
- In 1966, Bardot married German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, for what would only be three years.
© Getty Images
19 / 31 Fotos
Marianne
- From 1969 to 1978, Bardot became the official face of Marianne—the national personification of the French Republic symbolizing liberty, equality, fraternity and reason—who had previously been anonymous.
© Getty Images
20 / 31 Fotos
Concluding her cinematic career
- Her penultimate film was ex-husband Roger Vadim's erotic drama 'Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman' (1973), their fifth film together. In a poetic way, it closed out her career as an icon for sexual liberation, and it cemented her decision to retire in 1973.
© Getty Images
21 / 31 Fotos
Acting to activism
- In somewhat of an unpredictable move, the star devoted herself to defending the rights of animals. She's quoted as saying, "I gave my youth and my beauty to men, I am now giving my wisdom and my experience, the best of myself, to animals.”
© Getty Images
22 / 31 Fotos
Animal activism
- She was quite good at it! She led the fight against the sale of skins and furs in Europe, succeeded in a ban on tail docking, banning the import of cat and dog skins, and the European Commission's ban on imports of products derived from seal hunting.
© Getty Images
23 / 31 Fotos
Dismantling her image
- In the years that followed, Bardot appears to have deliberately destroyed her image as a beauty icon. She refused the popular route of cosmetic surgery, she dressed carelessly, she gave away her infamous Saint Tropez villa to her foundation, and moved into a small house with rescued animals.
© Getty Images
24 / 31 Fotos
Fourth marriage
- In 1992, she wed extreme right-wing political aide Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. This union appeared to heavily influence her political choices and her public support of the far-right party Le Front National.
© Getty Images
25 / 31 Fotos
Controversial statements
- Bardot was soon back in the spotlight, but this time for her offensive remarks about Muslim religion and culture. From 1996 to 2008, she was fined five times for inciting racial hatred.
© Getty Images
26 / 31 Fotos
Anti-Islamic
- In a 1996 interview with newspaper Le Figaro, she began her anti-Muslim tirade against Eid al-Adha, the traditional slaughtering of sheep that takes place once a year.
© Getty Images
27 / 31 Fotos
Anti-Islamic
- While some defended her as merely focusing on the animals, Bardot continually threw insults at Muslims and immigrants over the years, even penning an open letter to Nicolas Sarkozy in 2006 that earned her a fine of €15,000 (about US$18,000) for inciting racial hatred.
© Getty Images
28 / 31 Fotos
Hints of homophobia and anti-feminism - Bardot's 2003 autobiography 'Un Cri Dans Le Silence' was laced with prejudice against the queer community as well as anti-feminist sentiments about where women's place really is (apparently not in government). Most recently, her remarks about the #MeToo movement were far from supportive.
© Reuters
29 / 31 Fotos
The old days are long gone
- Bardot's life was subject to numerous injustices veiled by female sexual liberation, and as a result she suffered greatly, but her influence and experience still inform the contemporary discussion, and her story will be an important piece of history. See also: (Sydney Morning Herald) (The Guardian) See also: Things you probably didn't know about Marilyn Monroe.
© Getty Images
30 / 31 Fotos
© Getty Images
0 / 31 Fotos
Before she was B.B.
- Brigitte Bardot's full name is Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot. Born and raised in Paris, she spent her childhood enjoying the luxuries of an upper class family, but it wasn’t as charming as it sounds.
© Getty Images
1 / 31 Fotos
Rebel with a cause
- Bardot has been quite frank with the media about her strict upbringing, as her father reportedly had stern rules about things like how to act and what to wear. Little did he know he was only pushing her further.
© Getty Images
2 / 31 Fotos
Aspiring ballerina
- Before acting was even an idea for her, Bardot wanted to be a dancer, and she was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris, where she trained for several years.
© Getty Images
3 / 31 Fotos
Then modeling came along
- Helped along by her social background, Bardot met the director of Elle magazine, Hélène Lazareff, who hired the young teen in 1949 as a model. In 1950, at just 15 years old, Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle, and everything quickly snowballed from there.
© Getty Images
4 / 31 Fotos
Front page to film
- Her cover photo invited an acting offer from director Marc Allégret (center) for his film ‘Les Lauriers sont coupés,’ although she was informed after the audition that she didn’t get the role. What’s important, however, is that at the audition Bardot met screenwriter and director Roger Vadim (right).
© Getty Images
5 / 31 Fotos
Falling in love at 15
- Bardot fell for Roger Vadim, though her parents fiercely objected and threatened to send her off to England. She reportedly put her head into the oven in retaliation, and fortunately they came to the agreement that she would wait till she was 18 to marry Vadim.
© Getty Images
6 / 31 Fotos
Another Elle cover, another film offer
- In 1952, Bardot appeared on the cover of Elle again, and this time actually landed a small film role in Jean Boyer's 1952 'Crazy for Love' ('Le trou normand') starring French actor Bourvil.
© Getty Images
7 / 31 Fotos
Marriage and success with Roger Vadim
- The two were married in 1952, when Bardot was 18. After Bardot's roles in a few comedies where she often played naughty young women, in 1956 the couple made a melodrama together, a film that would launch Bardot into international fame, but that would also mark the end for them.
© Getty Images
8 / 31 Fotos
'And God Created Woman' (1956)
- Directed by Vadim, the film 'Et Dieu Créa la Femme' ('And God Created Woman') garnered international recognition for the pair, but during filming, Bardot fell in love with her co-star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, for whom she left Vadim in 1957. Her reputation as a “sex kitten” had taken flight.
© Getty Images
9 / 31 Fotos
Catching directors' attention
- After Vadim's film, several directors called on her and she starred in many more films, including Christian-Jaque's 1959 'Babette Goes to War' ('Babette s'en va-t-en guerre'), where Bardot co-starred with Jacques Charrier and fell in love again.
© Getty Images
10 / 31 Fotos
Liberation
- Photographs and films further iconized Bardot as a bombshell, which was a new kind of power emerging among women, and the actress became the subject of a 1959 essay by famed French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir, which declared Bardot to be the first liberated woman of post-war France.
© Getty Images
11 / 31 Fotos
Second marriage and motherhood
- In 1959, Bardot married Jacques Charrier, and that same year, at age 25, she became pregnant. She had her first and only child, Nicolas, in 1960, but later she would confess that she didn't want to be a mother and in fact resented her pregnancy and tried to abort it.
© Getty Images
12 / 31 Fotos
Suicide attempt
- On her 26th birthday in 1960, shortly after giving birth, Bardot tried to take her life again at her villa in France. She detailed her struggle with alcohol abuse and self-destructive depression in her autobiography 'Initiales B.B.' She wrote, “You cannot escape the distress which follows great happiness.”
© Getty Images
13 / 31 Fotos
A lifetime of being exploited by men
- Her book revealed the dark side to her glamorous image, one rife with abusive lovers, betrayal, exploitation, and being treated as a prostitute. She wanted to be a ballerina but was turned into a sexual fantasy as a teenager, and it took a serious toll on her.
© Getty Images
14 / 31 Fotos
Nonetheless, she continued
- Still at the height of her stardom, and after divorcing Charrier, the French icon went to London in 1963 to shoot the film 'The Ravishing Idiot' ('Une ravissante idiote') by Edouard Molinaro. She starred alongside American actor Anthony Perkins, and her fame extended further into English territory.
© Getty Images
15 / 31 Fotos
'Le Mépris' (1963)
- Considered to be Bardot's best film, 'Le Mépris' ('Contempt') by Jean-Luc Godard was released in 1963.
© Getty Images
16 / 31 Fotos
Consistent work
- The '60s saw Bardot in more internationally-aimed films, with few major successes but consistent work nonetheless. Most notable was her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film 'Viva Maria!' for which she was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress.
© Getty Images
17 / 31 Fotos
A simultaneous music career
- Bardot also performed in musicals and recorded many popular songs in the '60s and '70s, largely in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, and including songs like 'Harley Davidson' and the notorious 'Je t'aime... moi non-plus.'
© Getty Images
18 / 31 Fotos
Third marriage
- In 1966, Bardot married German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, for what would only be three years.
© Getty Images
19 / 31 Fotos
Marianne
- From 1969 to 1978, Bardot became the official face of Marianne—the national personification of the French Republic symbolizing liberty, equality, fraternity and reason—who had previously been anonymous.
© Getty Images
20 / 31 Fotos
Concluding her cinematic career
- Her penultimate film was ex-husband Roger Vadim's erotic drama 'Don Juan, or If Don Juan Were a Woman' (1973), their fifth film together. In a poetic way, it closed out her career as an icon for sexual liberation, and it cemented her decision to retire in 1973.
© Getty Images
21 / 31 Fotos
Acting to activism
- In somewhat of an unpredictable move, the star devoted herself to defending the rights of animals. She's quoted as saying, "I gave my youth and my beauty to men, I am now giving my wisdom and my experience, the best of myself, to animals.”
© Getty Images
22 / 31 Fotos
Animal activism
- She was quite good at it! She led the fight against the sale of skins and furs in Europe, succeeded in a ban on tail docking, banning the import of cat and dog skins, and the European Commission's ban on imports of products derived from seal hunting.
© Getty Images
23 / 31 Fotos
Dismantling her image
- In the years that followed, Bardot appears to have deliberately destroyed her image as a beauty icon. She refused the popular route of cosmetic surgery, she dressed carelessly, she gave away her infamous Saint Tropez villa to her foundation, and moved into a small house with rescued animals.
© Getty Images
24 / 31 Fotos
Fourth marriage
- In 1992, she wed extreme right-wing political aide Bernard d'Ormale, adviser to French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen. This union appeared to heavily influence her political choices and her public support of the far-right party Le Front National.
© Getty Images
25 / 31 Fotos
Controversial statements
- Bardot was soon back in the spotlight, but this time for her offensive remarks about Muslim religion and culture. From 1996 to 2008, she was fined five times for inciting racial hatred.
© Getty Images
26 / 31 Fotos
Anti-Islamic
- In a 1996 interview with newspaper Le Figaro, she began her anti-Muslim tirade against Eid al-Adha, the traditional slaughtering of sheep that takes place once a year.
© Getty Images
27 / 31 Fotos
Anti-Islamic
- While some defended her as merely focusing on the animals, Bardot continually threw insults at Muslims and immigrants over the years, even penning an open letter to Nicolas Sarkozy in 2006 that earned her a fine of €15,000 (about US$18,000) for inciting racial hatred.
© Getty Images
28 / 31 Fotos
Hints of homophobia and anti-feminism - Bardot's 2003 autobiography 'Un Cri Dans Le Silence' was laced with prejudice against the queer community as well as anti-feminist sentiments about where women's place really is (apparently not in government). Most recently, her remarks about the #MeToo movement were far from supportive.
© Reuters
29 / 31 Fotos
The old days are long gone
- Bardot's life was subject to numerous injustices veiled by female sexual liberation, and as a result she suffered greatly, but her influence and experience still inform the contemporary discussion, and her story will be an important piece of history. See also: (Sydney Morning Herald) (The Guardian) See also: Things you probably didn't know about Marilyn Monroe.
© Getty Images
30 / 31 Fotos
Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon
The beloved B.B. is 89 years old
© <p>Getty Images</p>
French former actress and singer Brigitte Bardot, often referred to by her initials B.B., was one of the world’s biggest stars in the ‘50s and ‘60s, pushing the envelope in more ways than one. With a career starting at just 15 years old, Bardot became so much more than the 40+ films and numerous songs she recorded; she was mythologized as a sex symbol, a symbol of France’s liberty, and a new post-war woman.
Yet, despite admiration for her beauty, Bardot was mistreated throughout her career and struggled with a deep unhappiness and alcoholism. She came to dislike her iconography and sought to destroy it, which came with good things like her activism for animals, but also spiraled into a string of controversies regarding her far-right political beliefs.
Click through to learn more about Brigitte Bardot, the living legend carrying the burden of recent history’s contradictions regarding women, Hollywood, and freedom.
RECOMMENDED FOR YOU
![The greatest female wrestlers of all time](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66d5d7aa902d2.jpg)
![Male celebrities who are considered "ugly hot"](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66d84218a10cd.jpg)
![Stars out of water: Celebs who can't swim](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66d71bf98327a.jpg)
![Celebrities attending the 2024 US Open Tennis Championships](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66d5e357977b6.jpg)
![The best looks from the 81st Venice Film Festival](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66d58339f0af7.jpg)
![All the records broken by Cristiano Ronaldo (so far)](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66d0679e052bb.jpg)
![Conspiracy theories: Famous people allegedly killed by the Illuminati](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c6fb5461810.jpg)
![Celebrities who openly spoke about supporting Trump in 2024](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c713706a0f5.jpg)
![These celebs publicly endorse Kamala Harris for president](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c7155636e1d.jpg)
![Famous farewell addresses from US presidents](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c4c5ef9aeed.jpg)
![Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck: a relationship timeline](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c62b35a00dd.jpg)
![The famous children of rock stars](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c5b9838fd5b.jpg)
![These celebrities are often mistaken for each other](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66c46c8f46c9f.jpg)
![Beatlemania—60 years on!](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66bcc04954ef9.jpg)
![Was Coco Chanel a spy?](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_5c012dae46e7f.jpg)
![Child actors who died too young](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66b9d4bd06931.jpg)
![Ridiculously expensive things celebs have bought](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66b6491b7f183.jpg)
![The hottest athletes competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66b3565373209.jpg)
![Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart's unexpected friendship](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66b1cf0ba0eb1.jpg)
![The major celebs spotted at the Paris Olympics (so far)](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66b0eff208206.jpg)
![The inventors among the rich and famous](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_62975401b2d4a.jpg)
![Celeb moms get real about breastfeeding](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_62e8e47eef2e8.jpg)
![Actors who asked to be written out of hit TV shows](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66aa0d6763478.jpg)
![Celebrities accused of being hypocrites](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_62ffa9a0cd616.jpg)
![Celebrity siblings that fame forgot](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_6321f72b964e8.jpg)
![Older actors who played teenagers on-screen](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_63c93ccf46d50.jpg)
![These male celebs all dye their hair](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_604b70b533c24.jpg)
![Hollywood stars with their stunt doubles and stand-ins](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_66a21ab9668d0.jpg)
![You won't believe these celebrity yearbook photos](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_649982afcf942.jpg)
![Famous Americans who married foreigners](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_669e80ab9abdf.jpg)
![These celebrities have had paranormal experiences!](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_5954c6f04201b.jpg)
![Brigitte Bardot: the complicated story of a beauty icon](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_660eb2d811b35.jpg)
![Intoxication station: celebrities under the influence on live TV](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_61164d7f1370e.jpg)
![Celebs who worked for other celebs before they were famous](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_614b0ddb540ae.jpg)
![Who's the sexiest man NOT alive?](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_618baea45460a.jpg)
![Surprising celebs who don't have a star on the Walk of Fame](https://media-manager.starsinsider.com/640/na_6078465513445.jpg)
MOST READ
- Last Hour
- Last Day
- Last Week