A TikTok outlining Brigitte Bardot's experiences with abortion has gone viral in light of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 case that protected abortion rights, last week. The French actress, singer, and model was one of the most famous sex symbols of the late 1950s and 1960s and remains a pop culture icon. However, her personal life was filled with trauma, including suicide attempts and dangerous underground abortions.
Now, a TikTok outlining details from Bardot's experience has gone viral, garnering significant attention. A TikTok account dedicated to the star, @lovebardot, posted a slideshow that has clocked more than 700,000 views. The caption reads, "Felt the need to post this considering what's going on at the moment, it boils my blood."
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The video details Bardot's harrowing experience with an unwanted pregnancy that she was forced to carry to term because she couldn't access a safe, effective abortion, as she stated. In her 1996 autobiography Initiales BB, Bardot discussed her two clandestine abortions—one in Switzerland and another in France, which was almost fatal, according to The Independent.
The actress became pregnant at the age of 25 before marrying her second husband, Jacques Charrier, whom she accused of being violent in her book, as reported by AP News.
A review of her autobiography in The New York Times in 1997 delves deeper into Bardot's abortions. It states, "Her account of painful and dangerous illegal abortions, and the description of a pregnancy that she could not end because, ultimately, even back-room abortionists were afraid to take a chance with someone as famous as she, led many to wax horrified about her lack of maternal instincts and the trauma she must have caused her son by likening the fetus growing in her to a 'tumor.'"
Bardot also revealed that in her desperate attempts to abort her pregnancy, she resorted to punching herself in the stomach and sought morphine from a doctor. She expressed that she would have "preferred to give birth to a little dog."
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