Brigitte Bardot, currently hospitalized for a “serious illness”, has had numerous health problems in recent years, including breathing difficulties. But what did the 91-year-old icon have to say about it?
Brigitte Bardot’s state of health is alarming. The 91-year-old former actress has been hospitalized for three weeks in Toulon, according to Nice-Morning. If the star should be released from the hospital within a few days, as indicated Here Provenceshe would still be supported for a “serious illness” after undergoing major surgery…
Brigitte Bardot, her “worrying” state of health: her breathing difficulties
No information has been given regarding the nature of the French cinema icon’s illness, but the news is rather “worrying“. The animal lover has just published her entirely hand-written book, her BBCedaryand has therefore remained relatively active in recent years, but she has still been faced with health concerns.
In July 2023, for example, she was hospitalized for breathing difficulties. “His pulse is good, his heart too and his blood pressure is good but things remain fragile. Like all people of a certain age, she can no longer stand the heat. She must not make unnecessary efforts“, said her husband, Bernard d’Ormale. At the time, the firefighters intervened at her residence in La Madrague, in Saint-Tropez, to take care of her as quickly as possible.
Brigitte Bardot, frank about her health: “I have not lost any of my faculties”
A few months earlier, in spring 2023, France Sunday had assured that BB had been the victim of illness. Information which then worried the crowds. But Brigitte Bardot spoke to play down the situation. “I want to reassure everyone: I am doing very well (…) I haven’t lost any of my faculties.” she wrote in a handwritten letter posted on social networks, assuring that she was in good health.
Most recently, last summer, the star of the film And God… created woman had given his first on-camera interview in ten years, for BFMTV. And if many Internet users had found the actress thin and in poor shape, she had nevertheless assured: “It’s going very well!“. The ex-actress, however, made it known that she never complained: “It pisses everyone off, and it’s useless. I keep for myself“.
Brigitte Bardot and her cancer: “It remained a secret until the day…”
Although we do not know the nature of the illness currently gnawing at Brigitte Bardot, it is common knowledge that she suffered from breast cancer at the age of 49. The mother of Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, 65 years old, born from her former love with the deceased Jacques Charrier, had initially refused chemotherapy before being convinced.
”I was all alone and I had decided to only do radiotherapy, and not this terrible chemo, so as not to lose my hair. It destroys evil but also good and we come out destroyed. I see people who, after this ordeal, are ruins. I would never want to go through that“, she explained to Paris Match in 2018 before declaring: “It remained a secret until the day the evil was behind me“.
