The name of Kim Basinger will always be inevitably linked to a striptease, the one he starred in Nine weeks and a half for his co-star, Mickey Rourketo the rhythm of Joe Cocker’s broken voice in You Can Leave Your Hat On.
It was 1986 and the actress, who had already become a Bond girl three years earlier alongside Sean Connery, ascended to an erotic myth. She was 33 years old and had a promising career ahead of her that went awry along the way. Today Kim Basinger blows out 70 candles away from the Hollywood spotlight.
Born Kimila Ann Basinger in Athens (Georgia, USA) in a large family with four siblings, her beauty opened doors for her as a model, but what she liked was singing and acting. A vegan since she was 8 years old and an activist for animal rights, at 16 Kim Basinger was chosen Miss Georgia and during the national qualifiers in New York she was offered a contract as a photographic model.
Daughter of a World War II veteran who gave up his musical aspirations to dedicate himself to finance and of a former model, over time Kim became an erotic myth. “I was a great sexual creature,” the actress once defined.
In 1983 he starred alongside Sean Connery in the James Bond film. Never say neverbut real fame came with Adrian Lyne’s toxic love story.
Then they would come Blind Date, Batman, The escape and other hits that culminated with her portrayal of a prostitute in Los Angeles naked (1997), which won her the Oscar for best supporting actress. She has participated in more than forty films; the last one, in 2018, Fifty Shades Freed.
But it’s been years since Kim Basinger not only hasn’t appeared on screen, but she hasn’t appeared on red carpets or at parties either. According to what they say, the star did not know how to manage the fortune that she achieved with her career. Perhaps her greatest eccentricity was spending $20 million in 1989 to buy a 710-hectare town called Braselton to create a Hollywood theme park.
Mental health problems
His mental health problems, such as agoraphobia and anxiety attacks, have also contributed to his preferring to live in privacy. She does it with her latest love, the hairdresser Mitch Stone, with whom she has lived since 2014. The couple was seen a few months ago at the party that her only daughter, Ireland – born from her marriage to Alec Baldwin – gave at the final stretch of your pregnancy. Kim is already the grandmother of a girl named Holland.
Married and divorced twice, the first time with makeup artist Ron Snyder (from 1980 to 1989) and the second with Alec Baldwin (from 1993 to 2002), the actress also had notable romances such as the one she had with Richard Gere and the singer Prince.
Currently she is a great activist in the defense of animals, a facet that completely monopolizes her activity. She defines herself on her Instagram like this: “Actress who hopes that one day all of humanity will treat animals with the respect they deserve.”
(La Vanguardia and Clarín)