Brigitte Nielsen was one of the most sought-after actresses in the 1980s, a symbol of films that have remained in the retinas of generations for years. 1985 was her star year after making her big screen debut with Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Red Warrior, before stepping into the shoes of Ludmilla Vobet Drago in Rocky IV, with whom she would end up becoming her husband, Sylvester Stallone. Since then, her life has taken many turns.
The Dane has been the second guest of the week on El Hormiguero, the Antena 3 nighttime program presented by Pablo Motos. Both have been able to discuss several outstanding topics and show great complicity, in addition to Nielsen’s entertaining and unfiltered character. Despite this, her personal life has been one of the points on which she has pivoted the interview, in particular having been her mother at 54 years old.
Nielsen herself claimed in an archival interview that it was better to have been a mother in 2018, when she turned 54 and ended up participating in Creed II, than twenty years before. In fact, the pregnancy of her daughter Frida, the fifth in her family, was a high-risk one. The gynecologist who treated her claimed that there was only a 2.5% chance that the birth would be successful. However, the Nordic interpreter was fortunate, as she herself admitted.
“At 20 years old I had no idea what I was doing. At that age your priorities are different. Now I would never leave Frida for a few months during a shoot, nor would I miss any of her important moments. Now it is wonderful to have a little girl because she keeps you active, happy,” Brigitte insisted about Frida, with whom she was able to be 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the pandemic, creating a much closer bond.
Regarding the possibilities of pregnancy, Nielsen insisted that one way or another it could turn out well, always following her own teachings: “I say that someone has to win the lottery, and why shouldn’t it be us? She was a miracle child. When they put her in my arms it was the best thing that has ever happened to me with someone on top of me.” Currently, Frida goes to school in Spain and she is “perfectly bilingual,” in the words of her mother.
The interview has had high points from the first minute, starting with the praise for Pablo Motos: “First of all, I want to thank you for inviting me to the program. All my friends in Los Angeles have told me that if I came to Madrid or was in Spain, I had to go to the ‘El Hormiguero’ show, it is the only show in Spain that looks like Oprah Winfrey’s.”
