10 life lessons that Bridget Jones keeps teaching us

She certainly needs no introduction because she is one of the most iconic female figures in pop culture. Her XXL panties, complicated relationship with Mark Darcy and her determination to overcome endless embarrassing moments and mistakes make her absolutely fascinating and irresistibly unique, forever and ever. Over the decades, Bridget remains an ordinary modern woman. She is us, sir. Me too, and these are the proofs. 2.00 pm: for vanityfair.it I have to start a piece on Bridget Jones and try to write something intelligent but light.

2.30pm: I’ve been watching Colin Firth’s videos on YouTube for over twenty minutes (how sexy is that?). 2.30pm. I really have to start the piece now. 2:35 pm Ooh, Chiara Ferragni on Instagram posted another photo of baby Vittoria, ooooh but how cute.

In short, Bridget is deeply rooted in each of us. Even in Renée Zellweger herself, which brought her to life in the three films based on Helen Fielding’s novels. The American actress has revealed that he has a lot in common with the single of our heart. Al Sun, a few months ago, he revealed: «I look at her and it is as if she were sitting next to me and there was a mirror between us. We are the same, really. Especially since we have everything in common that no woman would want to have in common with her. But this is also her beauty, her being so real, so similar to real women. I mean the strength to keep fighting for what we want, failure after failure. The fact of having to accept, in the end, all our imperfections. They are not really “beautiful” things. But they are true. The reality is this ».

Twenty years after its release in British cinemas, on April 4, 2001 (in Italy Bridget Jones’s diary arrived in October of the same year) and 25 after the book (world best-seller to which BBC2 dedicated the documentary Being Bridget Jones), the British single remains one of the most adorable and ambitious characters in the world of books and movies. Combined with a family-sized tub of ice cream, it was a comfort for when we were heartbroken, it represented a breath of fresh air to escape from the (sometimes) boring reality and a familiar face we turn to, again and again. and again, when we simply need to have a laugh.

With the story of a 30-year-old single trying to find a boyfriend and lose weight, Fielding perfectly framed the hectic lives of many young women who have always felt pressured to advance careers, find a suitable partner and be slim, beautiful and kind to everyone. Although Bridget is a chronic dissatisfied with herself and her life, we fell in love with her because she mirrors us, because she is real. And then, how can we not adore to the limit one that on Lady D.’s death leaves her a copy of Kensington Palace outside Vogue? “I know she liked it,” she says. Unanimously it is the BFF that we would all like next to.

She who taught us that love stories don’t have to be cheesy, but they can be silly and funny. She who transcends the generations. At the beginning of the novel, Bridget’s friend Shazzer makes a prediction: “We women are only vulnerable because we are a pioneering generation who has the courage to refuse to compromise in love and rely on our economic power. Twenty years from now, men won’t even dare approach us with the fucking jokes because we’ll laugh at them. ” In fact, today we women are independent and have no qualms about laughing at male ridicule. The great thing about Bridget is that she does all of this, but her # 1 dream remains to be with a handsome guy. Because, after all, life is hard and nobody wants to go to their neighbor’s turkey buffet alone. How much truth.

In the gallery 10 universal life lessons from Bridget Jones, suitable for all generations, of course.