Brigitte Lahaie born Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Van Meerhaeghe ; 12 October is a French radio talk show host, mainstream film actress and former pornographic actress. She left home for Paris when 18 years old, where she started working as a shoe salesgirl. Soon, she was noticed for her physique and accepted a proposal to pose in the nude for erotic magazines. She started working in the adult film industry in , one year after the legalization of hardcore pornography in France , as "Brigitte Lahaie" and various other stage names.
In her first film she was a body double for some of another actress' scenes. She chose to be listed as "Brigitte Lahaie" in most of them, her surname a transfer to French of her Flemish name "vanmeerhaeghe", in which "haeghe" means "hedge", since "la haie" is "the hedge" in French.
While she was still working in the adult-movie industry, Jean Rollin , who had directed her in the porn film Vibrations Sensuelles Sensual Vibrations in , noticed Lahaie's "distinctly different personality," as he later recalled, and thought she had "incredible charisma. Lahaie appeared in I as in Icarus , which starred Yves Montand , playing a stripper , in For a Cop's Hide , which starred Alain Delon , in the role of a nurse.
She continued to also make softcore and Nazi exploitation movies as well as " video nasties " during this time. The same year, she recorded and released the single "Caresse tendresse" "Caress tenderness". Throughout her career, Lahaie published several books, mostly autobiographical , as well as some novels. The show ended in , with the station praising her work on the subject of sexuality as "unique" in terms of success and longevity.
She is a fan of equestrianism , an interest reportedly first inspired when she saw the film White Mane as a teenager. In the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the subsequent Me Too movement , one hundred women in France signed, on 9 January , a public declaration in which they denounced what they claimed was a return to "puritanism" that "actually serves the interests of the enemies of sexual freedom , the religious extremists , the worst reactionaries.
