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Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Claudia Cockerell

Bridget Jones may be 'problematic' but she's just as relatable in 2025

Bridget Jones’s Diary is one of those novels about which people say “you wouldn’t be able to write that now.”

In modern parlance, it is “problematic” that each of Jones’s diary entries starts with her weight and calorie count. Her obsession with men who treat her badly is “toxic”, while the fact that she seemingly can’t be single and happy is considered regressive.

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