French actress Brigitte Bardot has been hospitalised, according to the country’s media outlets.
The film star, 91, is said to have been there for three weeks with a ‘serious illness’ although no further clarification has been made.
Brigitte was staying at her home in Saint-Tropez when she was admitted to a hospital in Toulon.
It has beenb claimed that she underwent surgery and is currently recovering and doctors will continue to monitor her condition.
Brigitte made her breakthrough in 1952 in the film The Girl In The Bikini and became one of the most famous French postwar film stars.
Brigitte Bardot, 91, has been admitted to hospital in Saint-Tropez with a serious illness and has undergone surgery (pictured in 2011)
In 1956, Brigitte starred alongsdie her estranged husband Roger Vadim’s And God Created Woman, which, despite the Hollywood censors’ cuts, became the highest-grossing foreign film ever released in the US.
The Parisian wasn’t a movie newbie, having already starred in several films and earned the nickname ‘sex kitten’.
American theatre managers were arrested for showing her on-screen exploits, but the press outrage only enticed viewers.
‘There lies Brigitte,’ one critic grumbled, ‘stretched from end to end of the screen, bottoms up and bare as a censor’s eyeball,’ in a review meant to appeal to morality. The queues for tickets just grew longer.
The controversy did her career no harm. Bardot acted in more than 45 films before retiring in the early 1970s.
Brigitte acted in more than 45 films before retiring in the early 1970s – (pictured in a still from Les Femmes )
