The statuesque blonde was spotted standing outside the deli section of Gelson’s supermarket in Westlake Village, California, talking on her cell phone as she waited to be helped.
‘We need to see the confidence!’ she said emphatically, “Once we know, we’ll look into it, but you need to get your hands on a copy as soon as possible.”
Wearing a hot pink tank top, tight black leggings, biker boots and a Louis Vuitton handbag in hand, it was hard to miss the woman driving around doing her shopping.
Full of energy, she got tired of just standing at the counter waiting. She began pushing her cart in a tight circle through the aisles and then returned to the deli.
Erin
Erin
What her fellow shoppers didn’t realize is that the restless dynamo is probably the most famous activist of our time and had an Oscar-winning film made about her life more than twenty years ago.
After paying, she ditched the shopping cart and instead carried her four bags full of food to her car, showing off her impressive biceps.
Did you guess her identity?
The incredibly fit woman is none other than famed legal eagle and environmental activist Erin Brockovich, now 63 years old and living in nearby Agoura Hills.
Erin, once an unemployed single mother of three, rose to fame in 1993 as a whistleblower, exposing Pacific Gas & Electric to groundwater contamination in and around the town of Hinkley, California.
As a paralegal, she played a key role in the city’s lawsuit against the utility.
The case was later settled with a $333 million award to the city, with Brockovich receiving $2.5 million for her work.
A few years later, Hollywood came knocking and her life was turned into a big screen movie starring Julia Roberts. Erin even had a cameo in the movie playing a waitress named Julia.
A lot of attention was paid to Erin’s sexy way of dressing to attract attention and obtain information from sources.
Julia, who played Erin, was seen wearing a push-up bra and a child on her hip as she worked over paper and pushed clerks in her quest for justice.
Julia Roberts highlighted Erin’s love of low-cut tops in the 2000 film
Nearly a quarter of a century after the release of the film Erin Brockovich, its namesake still dresses sexy and has a strong presence.
A photo of Erin was included in a 2014 exhibit called The Boomer List at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Brockovich addressed a rally against the federal government’s support of an alleged polluter on Capitol Hill in 2014
‘We need to see the confidence!’ she said into her phone while shopping. “As soon as we get that, we’ll take a look at it, but you need to get your hands on a copy as soon as possible.”
The film Erin Brockovich earned four Academy Awards in 2000, including Best Picture, Best Director (Steven Soderbergh), Best Supporting Actor (Albert Finney) and of course Best Actress for Roberts.
Now, almost a quarter of a century after the film’s release, its namesake still dresses sexy and has a strong presence.
But it wasn’t all a Hollywood fairy tale that ended for Brockovich.
Erin’s shocking mug shot made headlines around the world. It showed her with severe sunburn and red spots near her eyes after her arrest for boating under the influence
In 2013, DailyMail.com reported that she was arrested for driving under the influence while boating on Lake Mead, Nevada.
Her shocking mugshot made headlines around the world. It showed her with severe sunburn and red spots near her eyes.
It was later revealed that her blood contained twice the legal limit.
She quickly apologized for the incident in a statement: ‘At no time was the boat away from the dock and there was no threat to public safety. That said, I take drunk driving very seriously, this was clearly a big mistake. After a day in the sun and without food, it turned out that a few drinks had a bigger impact than I thought.’
She made headlines in February for raising concerns for the citizens of East Palestine, Ohio, after a massive freight train derailment released hazardous waste in and above the area.
After visiting the disaster site twice, she said it was like nothing she had ever seen before.
“I’ve been doing this for thirty years now, and the lack of information that hasn’t been given to these people, that they’re almost left here, not knowing what’s going on, where to go, what to do, who where they can focus on, their fear. I mean, it all feels to me like a leftover from what happened in Hinkley.”
Erin Brockovich has been married three times: to Shawn Brown in the 1980s, briefly to Steven Brockovich in 1989, and to Eric Ellis from 1998 to 2012.
She has three children, Mathew and Katie Brown from her first marriage and Elizabeth Brockovich from her second.