Brigitte Bardot’s Last Public Appearance Before Her Death Was in 2024: Photo

Brigitte Bardot's last public appearance before her death took place over a year ago.

The Brigitte Bardot Foundation announced on Sunday, Dec. 28, that the French actress and model has died at age 91.

Bardot was last seen publicly in 2024, when she was photographed in her car in Saint-Tropez, France, on Sept. 28 — her 90th birthday.

Prior to that, Bardot, who was born Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot in Paris in 1934, was seen in public posing with a dog in France in July 2023.

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In its statement announcing Bardot's death to the French news agency AFP, The Brigitte Bardot Foundation didn't specify the time or place of her death.

Bardot's death comes after reports surfaced in October that she had undergone surgery amid a “serious illness.”

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The star began her career as a model, appearing on the cover of Elle at the age of 15 in 1950, and she later rose to international fame after her role in the controversial 1956 film And God Created Woman.

Bardot retired from acting in 1973 at the age of 39 and ventured into a new career path: animal rights activism. (She launched the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals in 1986.)

Over the years, Bardot faced multiple health setbacks, including a suicide attempt and a breast cancer diagnosis.

She also surrounded herself in controversy throughout her life, being fined multiple times by the French government for inciting racial hatred and making headlines when she called the #MeToo movement “hypocritical, ridiculous and uninteresting,” among other instances.

Bardot wed four times throughout her life. She was married to Roger Vadim from 1952 to 1957, to Jacques Charrier from 1959 to 1962, to Gunter Sachs from 1966 to 1969, and she was married to Bernard d'Ormale since 2002.

She and Charrier welcomed a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, in Paris on Jan. 11, 1960. Bardot spoke openly about her distaste for being a mom, including in her memoir Initiales B.B., in which she wrote, “I'm not made to be a mother.”