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I figured we'd see a quirky, sometimes silly, often disastrous Bridget Jones, stumbling through the quagmire of adulthood. I didn't expect her to be all perfect PTA-bot or mommy-zombie. I was excited to watch Bridget grow up even more, to be a mom and a partner in her very own Bridget Jones's way. When I first learned about Bridget Jones's Baby, I was delighted. Like Bridget I was still stumbling, but I'd entered the realm of serious career and relationship choices. She was slowly but surely on a trajectory to becoming an adult. She stopped making all the wrong decisions about men. She gained a newfound confidence and success in her career. Bridget had made progress between the two films.
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While the second movie erred on the side of the absurd ( Thai prison? Really?!), it was still relatable, and I loved it just as much. Despite all its messiness, Bridget's life, filled with imperfections, was what came across as charming.įor years, whenever I picked up a microphone to give a speech at an event or a party, I wanted to start with "Oi!" But their lives weren't the ones we coveted. The movies were peppered with plenty of "aspirational" women, stick-insects who didn't need Spanx or concealer for their under-eye circles.
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I liked that Bridget had to wear enormous grandma panties, and I thought about that scene over and over again when I bought my first pair of Spanx. I had my own urban group of friends that also included a trash-talking journalist, a neurotic investment banker, and a saucy gay with excellent hair. I too drank too much vodka and smoked too many cigarettes and felt like the odd one out when I'd go to dinner parties with my engaged and then married friends in the suburbs where my parents still lived. Titspervert!" (See the clip below if you don't remember what I'm talking about.)Īnd as I grew into my own single-lady life, wrought with plenty of emotional fuckwits, workaholics, sexaholics, perverts, commitment-phobics, megalomaniacs, and men less handsome than Daniel Cleaver, I was comforted by Bridget's imperfections.
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When I missed her I watched it alone in my tiny Manhattan studio and called her to leave voicemails just saying: "Mr. The cassette came with me when I moved to New York and Jackie went to law school in Michigan. She's a constant reminder to keep my own characters humble and relatable.ĭuring our junior year of college, my best friend, Jackie, and I rented the first Bridget Jones movie from the campus video store, aptly named Campus Video Store, and had to pay a fine of $30 for not returning the VHS cassette on time (ever).Įven though $30 was a lot of money back then, it was a worthy investment since we watched it a hundred times. I think about Bridget a lot when I write women. The character of Bridget Jones, the quirky, imperfect, chubby, lovable heroine of the books and the original two movies was one of the reasons I decided to become a lady fiction author in the first place. In the nearly 20 years since I read the first novel (yes, it came out in 1996!), I've published two lady lit books, with another due out next year. No one wanted a third installment of the Bridget Jones movie franchise to happen more than I did.