Bessie Bardot
| Bessie Bardot | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Bessie Wilson 10 September 1974 Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia |
| Residence | Sydney |
| Occupation | model, writer, television presenter |
| Spouse(s) | Geoff Barker |
| Website | bessiebardot |
Bessie Bardot (born Bessie Wilson on 10 September 1974) is an Australian businesswoman, author, body model, television host, and socialite. Her career began in the 1990s, when she was discovered by former Australian Gladiator Geoff Barker, who is now her ex-husband.
A child of hippie parents, she was born in the Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney in 1974. Her original name was Bessie Wilson and she attended Covenant Christian School, located in the Sydney suburb of Belrose. Given the nickname "Little Wing Kelly", she spent her early years in Mullumbimby in northern New South Wales. Her father disappeared when she was seven and she later discovered he had committed suicide through depression and the loss of custody court case for her.
Bardot's mother married a fundamentalist Christian, an original Hillsong pastor and introduced a strict regime at home including no Young Talent Time or boyfriends. Voted "least popular girl" in her final year at school, by the time she was 21 she had already been married and divorced after discovering her husband of 12 months was maintaining 7 other girlfriends behind her back.
She married Geoff Barker, formerly "Commando" from the Australian version Gladiators, and together they started Australia's first Body Model agency, focusing on all shapes and sizes. They cast for film, TV and print including characters in Moulin Rouge, Mission Impossible 2, Matrix, Star Wars. Originally the agent for Sofía Vergara from 'Modern Family, and Rachael Taylor of Transformers.
She always said she would never send her models to do a job she wouldn't do, so reinvented her life, appearing nude in Playboy and Black+White magazine, FHM, Hello, Cosmopolitan, Cleo, Madison, Vogue, working Sydney's social scene and becoming something of a professional celebrity and avid charity worker.
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