“People saw me in Joan of Arc and declared me a saint,” she said. “I’m not. I’m just a woman, another human being.”
Whether you call them homewreckers or romantic victims of tragic love, the “other women” have been iconic figures in human culture since Abraham took the slave girl Hagar to bed instead of his wife, Sarah. Here are some of the most famous (or infamous) other women through history.
Pictured: Ingrid Bergman, whose affair with a married Roberto Rossellini (she was also married to someone else) led to her being denounced on the floor of the U.S. Senate and labeled a pariah in Hollywood.
