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was a total legend". Those are the words my editor used in her email to me when we were discussing this very article and it’s hard to disagree. She just was. I watched the movie for the first time just before I hit puberty, and I still related to her. I’d never had two men fighting over me but I knew that when that day came , I’d react exactly as she did.
Much has been written of the way Bridget’s character was treated, and even author Helen Fielding herself has said she couldn’t write Bridget the same way now. "The level of sexism that Bridget was dealing with, the hand on the bum in so many of the scenes", she said on Desert Island Discs, made it "quite shocking for me to see how things have changed since then." Bridget constantly faces, whether it’s in the workplace or with a bottom-pinching relative.
So is her obsession with her weight. Bridget relentlessly counts her calories and forces herself into , while those around her view her as an overweight mess. Daniel Cleaver’s girlfriend even cuttingly remarks: ‘I thought you said she was thin’. In truth Bridget is just a size 10/12 - the average in the UK.
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