Bridget Jones is always a good idea. 10 timeless life lessons I learned watching the movies
When I decided I would write an article about Bridget Jones I had little memories of the movie that became a phenomenon in the 2000’s. I didn’t grow up with Bridget, so I didn't discover her life lessons until later on. I was only a baby when the first two films launched, my life priorities back then were so different than 30 year-old Bridget Jones’. But she did pass through my life in a very subtle way – I have a memory of a VHS my mom had in her cabinet, at our holiday home in the mountains, with Bridget holding a diary in her hands, and her pen in her mouth, while two boys were jumping out of her head. Or so I imagined. More than ten years later, when I was in my 20s, I went to the cinema to watch Bridget Jones’s Baby, the third and (supposed to be) the final movie, and I remember I enjoyed it so much, I looked for the other two and watched all of them in a beat. She seemed like the kind of girl that could become my best friend. Many times on the outside, but somehow always getting the good guys. If I have learned anything from Bridget Jones back then, it’s that you should always strive to be yourself, even in the moments you don’t feel like it and you would rather put on an uncomfortable pair of Spanx wedgies just to look sexier. It was the advice I followed bluntly in my 20s and it must have saved me somehow. I was always the girl who didn’t care that much about what other people thought about me, being 100% sure there are people out there who will like me just the way I am.
Film producer and founder of ADFR, she dreamed since she was little of having a magazine one day. Alongside her job as editor-in-chief, she writes the interview of the month. She loves animals, jazz music and films festivals.
