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Brigitte Bardot at 80: still outrageous, outspoken and controversial
Since her first public appearance in 1950, BB, the screen icon who turned her back on film fame, has courted scandal
by Agnès Poirier
The Observer, Saturday 20 September 2014
Brigitte Bardot in 1965. Photograph: Alamy
The woman Paris-Match deemed "immoral, from head to toe" in 1958, is turning 80 in a few days. "The most beautiful woman in the world" may have chosen to leave the limelight in 1973, at the peak of her fame and beauty, to dedicate her life to animals, yet Brigitte Bardot has never ceased to be a controversial figure.
