Iconic French actress Brigitte Bardot has been hospitalised, according to the country’s media outlets. The film star, 91, is reportedly being treated in a private clinic where the 60s icon is said to have been for the past three weeks.
She is said to have been undergoing treatment at the private clinic, where she was admitted after having to leave her own estate in Saint-Tropez following a “serious illness”, as reported by Daily Mail.
According to reports, she is expected to be discharged in the coming days. Her exact condition is yet to be reported. Reports claim that she is currently recovering after undergoing surgery. She remains in hospital as doctors monitor her condition.
Express.co.uk have contacted Brigitte Bardot’s representatives for comment.
The actress made her debute in 1952 in the film The Girl In The Bikini and became one of the most famous French postwar film stars.
Her breakout role was the 1956 film, And God Created Woman, which launched her to international fame.
Her biggest commercial success in France came in 1960’s movie, The Truth which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
Having already starred in several films she earned the nickname “sex kitten”. Bardot acted in more than 45 films before retiring in the early 1970s.
Beatles legend John Lennon was famously a huge fan of the French star with her poster on his childhood bedroom wall. The two briefly met in 1968.
Bardot has been married four times, first to husband Roger Vadim (1952-57), Jacques Charrier (1959-62), Gunter Sachs (1966-69) and Bernard d’Ormale, who she married in 1992.
She welcomed a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, with her second husband in 1960.
Bardot ended her film career in 1973 so she could dedicate herself to her animal rights charity.