Bridget Jones's Insecurity - Why Women Hate Themselves

Throughout the trilogy of Bridget’s story – Bridget Jones’s Diary, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and Bridget Jones’s Baby – the character’s central flaw driving most of her conflict and struggle is deep, bottomless insecurity. Nearly all her interactions with the greater world are loaded with shame and humiliation. But why is this young, smart and successful woman so incredibly down on herself?

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00:00 Bridget Jones, a tale of self-esteem
01:18 Why does Bridget have such a bleak outlook?
03:01 The many ways Bridget self-sabotages
07:15 How Bridget speaks to her generation of women
09:36 Four key moments of Bridget's progress
13:13 Imperfection can be a superpower
14:16 The central theme of the series