Post A Photo Of A Celebrity Who Is NOT Holding Up Very Well At ALL...

[arwalden]

You know... the ones who've definitely seen better days.

Here's one that comes to mind.
If I didn't tell you... Would you know who this was without looking at the answer (BELOW)




It's... Brigitte Bardot!

[Texasgal]

1. Awwww!!!

Don't slam her! She's still pretty...age shouldn't be something ugly!!!

C'mon now... :hi:

[LostinVA]

50. And a big animal rights person

[RFKHumphreyObama]

72. I don't mean to offend you LostInVA but Brigitte Bardot gets no sympathy

from me

Her ongoing endorsement for Jean Marie Le Pen’s National Front and her history of homophobia and racism and right wing extremism eroded any sympathy I had for her. It is incredible to me that someone who has such a humanitarian and compassionate view toward animals (an admirable quality) can be so callous, intolerant and bigoted when it comes to her fellow human beings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Bardot

I much prefer Catherine Deneuve –a beautiful woman, talented actress and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador. Having said that, it isn't Bardot's looks that make her unattractive -and I don't judge her on that because I'm not much to look at myself -it's a question of personality

[swimboy]

2. I want to give her credit for not stretching her skin until she looks like

a praying mantis! I think it is better to age gracefully and naturally. Ask me again in 30 years and I think I'll say the same!

[XNASA]

3. Guess who this is!

She's not holding up at all.

[DS1]

4. I'd say she's made a hell of an improvement

[meegbear]

6. BWAH-HAHAHAHAHA!!

I forgot about her (thankfully).

[ET Awful]

19. Just the look on the dude's face behind her cracks me up every time

:rofl:

[bigwillq]

55. LOL! That is funny!

:)

[ThomCat]

47. Who the hell is that?

[LostinVA]

51. Yeah, who is it?

[DS1]

56. have NO idea

just google 'mosh girl'

[bigwillq]

54. Who is this?

:shrug:

[DS1]

57. Doesn't matter, the pose and expression just looked similar to me

[philosophie_en_rose]

46. Pebbles Flintstone?

Who else would wear that ugly outfit - without "support."

[radwriter0555]

84. OHMYGAWD tonya hardling... how the mighty hath fallen..

Lower



And lower



and yet even LOWER

[baldguy]

85. can you say "steroids"?

Does she sound like Harvey Fierstein yet?

[radwriter0555]

86. Can you say CHEESEBURGERS? That's not steroids, that's EATING

everything in sight.

[graywarrior]

5. Gimme a break, will ya? The woman is elderly

and hasn't stretched her face over a canvas for our approval.

[RebelOne]

7. I'd like to see how those who are bashing her looks

will be holding up when you reach her age. And I think she looks pretty damn good.

[arwalden]

9. This "Fairground-Freak" Thinks She's A Hateful Bitch...

... she's also a racist and homophobe. I guess all those years of scowling and hatred eventually take their toll.

[RebelOne]

31. Sorry, I don't agree.

She is someone who stands up for animals, so that makes her all right in my eyes.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

62. It's okay if she hates people...

as long as she stands up for animals? Thus makes perfect sense to me.

:eyes:

[arwalden]

87. Sorry... I Don't Hand Out Free-Passes As Eagerly As You Do.

Although it can be a good thing if someone "stands up for animals"... that's hardly justification to give them a FREE PASS on their hate and bigotry towards gays, women, minorities, immigrants and Muslims.

She's really a wretched old HAG.

[graywarrior]

93. Attack her politics, not her "elderly" appearance.

I get sorta sick of elder bashing. People get real pissed off at someone who was once beautiful, but is now old and ugly, in their terms.

[arwalden]

98. Oh Please... She's An Unkempt Hag... A Hateful, Bigoted Witch...

... that is all. For a woman who is known for her "sex-kitten" beauty and sex appeal, I think ridiculing her haggard and disheveled appearance now is very appropriate. If you caught me going around ridiculing EVERY old person for having wrinkles and going gray, then perhaps you'd have a point, but I think you're being entirely too defensive and too sympathetic to that crusty old bitch.

Are you sick of skinny blond bashing when people make fun of Ann Coulter's bleached-blond, anorexic, masculine looks? Same thing.

[graywarrior]

108. Guess I am.

It is much more fun to attack the ugliness that lurks inside of Coulter.

[henslee]

10. Bardot is a legend. Don't post t his junk. Post THIS JUNK (pic)

[arwalden]

11. She's A Bigot.

[Yollam]

13. ???

She's as tireless activist for animal rights. How is she a bigot?

[arwalden]

16. Uh... She's SO Anti-Gay, Anti-Woman, Anti-Muslim, Anti-Immigrant...

... it's been in all the papers.

[Yollam]

18. Wasn't aware of that...

but given the fact that she's very old, not a politician, I'm not going to waste any energy being mad at her. Lots of old people are anti-gay, etc.

Hard to believe that she's "anti-woman", though...

[arwalden]

20. Yeah... she thinks that women shouldn't be in politics...

... or hold public office.

[Yollam]

23. LOL - how arbitrary.

Campaigning in the public eye for animal rights is okay, though, huh?

Whatever.

[GirlinContempt]

29. Cause, you know, it's not like people that aren't politicians

affect things every day or anything.

[Yollam]

38. Hey, if you want to mount a campaign...

...against an aging, has-been actress because she thinks differently from you - go for it.

Keep in mind that people have the right to be homophobic, racist, sexist. They have the right to say so, too.

You want to boycott her movies, go right ahead. I doubt there are many that were released in the last 30 years.

If you want to be mad at someone, why not someone like Adam Carolla, who spews idiotic Anti-Asian bigotry on his puerile radio show in the present-day. He actually has an audience. A tiny one, but at least he is working.

[GirlinContempt]

39. Of course she has the right to be that way

And I have the right to think it's disgusting. I find it interesting, though, that first you questioned her bigotry, and now you're basically giving it a pass, despite the fact that she released a book not that long ago, and is still in the public eye (Especially because, as you yourself pointed out, she's an activist for animal rights).

I don't 'get' how it's better to be angry at someone bigoted who's on your radar screen, but it's somehow mounting a campaign against someone else to point out the very public and disgusting things they say.

[Yollam]

40. I think it's fine to point it out.

But Arwalden started off the thread by making it about her looks, which seems to me like a campaign to bash some old woman for her looks because you don't like her beliefs. If his problem was with her bigotry, that's what he should have gone after. Who cares if she's got a few wrinkles?

As for Bardot's bigotry - I had honestly never heard of any such a thing. I don't question it, I just find it surprising and incongruous with an animal-rights stance. Her animal rights work has been high-profile, and yet I've never heard about the other stuff, which makes me inclined to believe that animal rights, not anti-gay crusades, is her primary focus for activism. If that's the case, I see no reason to try and detract from her good work by ragging on her for personal beliefs.

The other example - Carolla, has consistently used demeaning stereotypes, without any of the good works Bardot is known for, which is why I think someone like him would be a better target for ire.

[progmom]

42. Her bigotry kind of makes her look a little ugly to me

:shrug:

[progmom]

27. isn't it a shame that the people who are the most vocal animal rights...

...activists are often the biggest misanthropes? I have so much respect for people who fight for fair conditions and treatment of animals...but sometimes they are so frenzied about it that they start to hate all humans. Know what I mean?

[arwalden]

30. I speak my mind, I seek to understand...

:rofl:

[Blue-Jay]

33. I just said that to myself with a Bill Shatner voice.

Try it. It's pretty funny.

[arwalden]

35. I Said It With A Mouthful Of Chicken Quesadilla... With Cheese...

... in a William Shatner voice. You're RIGHT!! It is FUNNY!!

[madinmaryland]

96. Is the one on the left the before picture?

That squirrel must be really upset now that he looks like bush.

:evilgrin:

[Dave Reynolds]

43. But that just does not matter if she luvs her some critters!

sigh.

[GirlinContempt]

26. Research is your friend

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5181642/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,956179,00.html

Oh, and she's a fan of the national front.
Yeah, this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Front_(France)

[Yollam]

41. Interesting stuff.

Still, it looks to me like she's getting a bit "eccentric" in her old age. It's too bad she's become so nasty, but I can also understand how an older person would feel distressed if their country was being overrun by hordes of foreigners and they saw the culture they grew up in dissolving around them. The French are well-known for being protective of their culture, to the point of discouraging the use of foreign words in the vernacular.

I guess It's because I had a wonderful grandmother who used to use racial language that I would never use. I tend to cut old people a bit of slack on such things, as long as they are just running their mouths and not trying to pass backward legislation, etc.

[GirlinContempt]

83. Oh really?

"they are just running their mouths and not trying to pass backward legislation"

Do some reading on the party she's actively involved in.

I have a hard time giving anyone a pass. Sure, I'm LESS hard on my grandmother than on, say, my sister. But she still doesn't get a pass on being a racist shit head. Period.

[JVS]

77. What does being for "animal rights" have to do with bigotry?

[Texasgal]

14. Maybe your thread should have been

" Post pics of celebrity bigots" then....

[arwalden]

15. No... Because Then We Couldn't Make Fun Of Joan Rivers!!

[BurtWorm]

95. Breezheet Beeg-O.

[Yollam]

12. I agree. She looks much better than Joan Rivers.

I hate the stretched-taut look. Bardot looks classy and human. Seeing the photos and thinking of all the good she's done just makes me want to give her a huge HUG!

[Saphire]

32. I think she's 72...I only hope to look that good.

[johnnie]

8. Honestly, she doesn't look too bad for her 70s

The problem is, she is trying to look like she is in her 20s. So, I agree that she isn't holding up very well, not because she is older, but because she looks terrible with the shitty makeup jobs.

[no name no slogan]

17. Like a rhinestone cowboy

Gettin' drunk and plowing his Beemer into another car

[greblc]

68. Huh? Looks like my dad.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

21. I'd say her politics were her biggest problem

But in response to the question, I can't resist this pic from the most recent Celebrity Big Brother:



(That's George Galloway who just looks like a dick and Pete "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" Burns.)

[Deja Q]

22. The one on the right looks more like Michael Jackson

:scared:

[arwalden]

24. Poor Pete Burns....

Those lips... I've seen other photos of him that are absolutely HIDEOUS. It makes me wonder how he can enunciate words properly.

[no name no slogan]

25. OMG

I didn't think it was possible for Pete Burns to look any worse than he did in the 80s, but once again he has proven me wrong.

[DS1]

28. Wow, Parliament to CBB in easy step

Christopher Hitchens must be spilling his drink laughing

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. I think she's more beautiful than ever.

maybe it's the absence of collagen... ;-)

[terrya]

36. Brace yourself, folks...this ain't pretty. But really, was she ever?

[Sabriel]

61. Wasn't she head of the Vulcan High Council once?

(Who the heck is that, anyway?)

[Left Is Write]

64. Looks like Leona Helmsley to me.

[Bucky]

70. Actually, you're close. It's Mde Toussaud's wax replica of Ms. Helmsly

Obviously a real human wouldn't appear that shiny.

[Left Is Write]

73. I'm not sure she IS a real human.

:P

[KurtNYC]

37. The Governator

[greblc]

69. The Flabinator?

[Dukkha]

44. the obvious here

good ol' Nick Nolte


Whacko Jacko


Yasmine Bleck!


Pamela MANderson


Oldie Hawn


Madonna no wanna

[Texasgal]

48. WTF???

I think Goldie and Madonna look fucking AWESOME for their age!

[bigwillq]

60. I think Madonna looks amazing!

In that Goldie pic though, she doesn't look so good. Makeup does wonderful things for her.

[LostinVA]

52. Pamela Anderson looks fine -- much better than when she has makeup on

She just looks "normal." Like a sister or aunt.

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

63. ...or a slightly older lover.

C'mere, Manderson.

[LostinVA]

66. hehehehe

[blondeatlast]

101. Smoking Gun photos shouldn't count (much)

The Vince Vaughn photo downthread is from a fan, presumable.

I gotta say, sans makeup, Madonna, Goldie, and Yasmine Bleeth still look pretty good, IMHO as a straight femme.

[Janice325]

45. Yes

I knew.

[edbermac]

49. Sally Struthers...

Cute as hell on AITF...nowadays...

[marzipanni]

53. The words to a song come to mind

"But time makes you bolder
Children get older
I'm getting older too..."

(Landslide-Fleetwood Mac)

[devilgrrl]

58. How good are you supposed to look in your 70's?

:eyes:

[arwalden]

75. Her Sour Looks Match Her Sour Disposition

[devilgrrl]

99. Posted this before I put two+two together

Brigette Bardot is an idiot.

Sorry :blush:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

59. How about this one?

My mother in law says he's pickled and will never die. Which isn't far from the truth.


Here he is as a young man. BIG difference, huh?
Duckie

[Pithlet]

67. He doesn't even look like the same person.

He was a cutie back in the day.

[BattyDem]

71. That is just ... scary!

:scared:

[elshiva]

78. HELP!

:hide:

[Ivan Sputnik]

97. Drugs, drink, cigarettes,

too much sun and bad lighting will do that to you. I would like to know what he eats for breakfast.

[BlueIris]

100. YIKES. I'd never seen a "before" photo before. SCARY.

The stuff of nightmares, kids.

[shain from kane]

103. How about Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin?

I don't know how to post pictures, but he's really looking bad.
My wife thinks that he may have a medical condition, such as arthritis, and is on steroids.
Jimmie Page of Led Zeppelin and Pete Townsend of The Who aren't looking all that great, either.

[Arugula Latte]

106. He used to look a bit like George Harrison.

Now ... :scared:

[blondeatlast]

65. He's only 35:

http://network.news.com.au/image/0,10114,5028834,00.jpg

I used to find him very sexy (tall always gets to me), but sheez, I have 11 years on him and I've aged way more gracefully.

[NNadir]

74. This guy looks, well, dead.

[lavenderdiva]

76. here ya go... Farrah.

then:

now:

[JVS]

79. did she have an accident or a stroke? Her face is unbalanced

[lavenderdiva]

80. nah, just very bad plastic surgery...

she's had cheek implants, and something very bad was done to her nose. Probably had a bad eye lift too, as one is higher than the other. Very sad, as she was so beautiful, IMHO.

[speedoo]

81. Farrah's had too much plastic surgery, I think.

You'd think she could afford the best, but it looks awful.

[arwalden]

88. Kabuki Mask!

[LostinVA]

105. BAD plastic, man

[CanuckAmok]

82. To her credit...

...she hasn't fallen prey to the ridiculous plastic surgery that so many other celebrities of a certain age have.

Imagine what Cher, Liz Taylor, Meg Ryan, Liza Minnelli, et al would look like if they let nature take its course.

I don't know, there's something graceful about the way she's aging.

[Misunderestimator]

90. Too bad she lacks grace in every other way.

I just can't see using the word graceful to describe a hateful bigoted ***** like her. :shrug:

[CanuckAmok]

102. yeah, she's a weirdo.

I wonder what ever happened to that ersatz Bridgette Bardor, Claudia Schiffer...

[RebelOne]

89. I definitely agree with her on this:

She is accused of being a misanthrope and preferring the company of animals to that of humans.

I much prefer the company of animals to humans.

[CBGLuthier]

91. Guess it is time for some quotes from BB

Since the majority of this thread got hijacked into a discussion of her character;

http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/05/1610376_comment.php


"I do not hold religious Muslims in high esteem," she concedes in her introduction, and throughout the book her deepest wrath is reserved for the "Islamisation" of France and -- her particular bete noire -- the Muslim ritual of animal sacrifice at Eid el-Kebir.

and

"All those 'youths' who terrorise the population, rape young girls, train pit-bulls for attack ... spit on the police -- they are the ones who at the smallest signal from their chiefs will suddenly put us through the same kind of thing that happened in a Moscow theatre."

and

There are plenty of other targets for Bardot's unflinching abuse -- notably modern gays who, unlike her own dignified homosexual friends, "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through."



Fortunately, I never really was a fan. Sure she was gorgeous, but she wasn't really much of an actress. To me, someone like Joanne Woodward is talented, beautiful, inside and out and still to this day.

[GirlinContempt]

92. “Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves.”

[Susang]

94. I guess I must be miserable

Funny, she looks much more miserable in those pictures than I ever have. Of course, I'm not filled with hate and bile. ;-)

[DBoon]

104. Courtney Love

[Skittles]

107. dammit, having problems posting pics

*sigh*