Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz is a young horsewoman, best known as the daughter of actor David Boreanaz. Bella’s father is best known as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, a homicide investigator, in the Fox crime drama comedy series Bones (2005-2017).
David is also known for his portrayal of the US Navy SEAL Commander-in-Chief, Special Warfare Operator Jason Hayes on the CBS military drama series SEAL Team. Boreanaz has a daughter Bella with his wife Jamie Bergman, a Playboy alumni with whom David has been together since 2001.
This celebrity child of Boreanaz and his wife, although young, has quite a lot of achievements, which only shows the promising future she will eventually have. Check out her life so far as the child of a famous TV star, her relationship with her father and much more.
Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz Ancestry
The wisdom of her father, Bella – who was born on 31 August 2009 – is a descendant of Italian-Slovenian ancestry.
Her father’s American heritage is almost entirely rooted in Pennsylvania and New York, but three-quarters of her father’s family tree crosses the pond pretty quickly.
Bella’s father is half Italian and a quarter Slovak. The last quarter returns steadily to Pennsylvania and eventually leads to Irish and German immigrants. Boreanaz also has some additional indications of French and Swiss roots.
Bella’s maternal grandparents are from Salt Lake City, Utah.
David Boreanaz And His Wife Struggled To Conceive Their Daughter Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz
Boreanaz said that conceiving Bella was a little more difficult because they had been trying for about a couple of years. The Buffalo-born actor said in September 2009,
“We’ve been trying to have another baby for a couple of years now so we are beyond excited, we’re over the moon.”
Just as David’s wife was about to give birth to Bella, the CBS star said: ‘I’m expecting a baby,
“Jaime’s pregnant, we’re doing construction at the house, and I’m just pulling my hair out. I didn’t go to Comic-Con because the baby was going to come at any minute. We’re just waiting and waiting. It’s nerve-wracking, extremely, [but] I finally just decided that it’s going to come when it’s going to come.”
Also during this time, Jemima was on bed rest and David had to stay at home if she went into labour. Boreanaz once mentioned in an interview that he stayed within a 20-mile radius when labour was around the corner. The former extra in Men Don’t Be Silent forbade himself to travel beyond that limit.
The Meaning Behind Bella’s Name; It Was Originally Something Else
Bella’s original name was Bardot Vita Boreanaz, although her celebrity parents later changed it to Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz. David and Jaime’s daughter’s middle name, Bardo, comes from an event that took place two weeks before her birth.
Before giving birth, David Boreanaz saw a photograph by Douglas Kirkland of Brigitte Bardot, taken in Spain in 1967. Speaking on Live with Regis and Kelly, the Bones star said it was actually a photograph of the famous actress with Douglas Kirkland that spoke to him, just two weeks before Bardo’s birth on 31 August.
Boreanaz himself claims that the photograph depicted energy and it was the essence of the photograph that stirred him from within. Recalling the event, David said,
“I walked in and she was doing this little kind of a pose and it caught my eye…it was a reflective shot through a mirror – quite a shot, so it kind of hit me hard. It was the energy. The essence of that photograph kind of got me moved. It hit me hard,”
explained Bella’s father.
Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz As A Child
In 2013, David said that Bella, adventurous and playful, often reminded him of himself as a child. Boreanaz described his daughter at the time as so sociable and someone who liked to jump from one sofa to another chair. Bella was reported to have been a little stormy at the time.
And from a very young age she was very independent and free-thinking, very much like her father, Boreanaz admitted. Apparently, Bella has also been the one in the Boreanaz family who, growing up, found it easy to get her own way.
David once revealed that his daughter could get away with anything because she seemed to have really become Daddy’s little girl.
Bella Is A Dancer Turned Equestrian
When Bella was much younger, she took ballet lessons; this was around the same time as her older brother Jaden was a high school hockey player. She also used to play softball and ride big horses.
However, it is the latter that she is now seriously involved in. In fact, Bella is now a horsewoman.
It all started in 2017 when Bella’s family leased her a horse named Charm so she could learn to ride, both jumping and dressage. But in 2019, she got a new horse called Romeo.
Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz’s Achievement As Equestrian
As a child rider, Bella is the overall winner of the 2021-2022 Inter-School Equestrian League among young riders in the hunter category. The daughter of David and Jaime was in sixth grade when she won the competition.
After winning the Interscholastic Equestrian League Overall Freshman Hunter, Bella’s mother took to her Instagram to celebrate her daughter’s achievement, writing
Bella is the 2021-2022 Interscholastic Equestrian League Overall Freshman Hunter Champion (even though she’s in the 6th grade). We are so incredibly proud of you Bella! Go Eagles
Thank you @futurity_farms!! #equestrianteam #hunters #seasonchampions
That same year, her horse Candy Crush also won the USHJA Outreach Horse Certificate of Merit Award. It was awarded a gold level in the USHJA Outreach program.
Bella has had other accomplishments as a professional equestrian, including winning her high school’s overall first-grade division.
Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz Was Also On The Show Bones
Like her brother and mother, Bella was also featured in an episode of Bones. She appears in an episode called The Movie in the Making, where she plays one of the children in Christine’s class when Brennan visits her to tell her about his work. In addition to this cameo role, Bella has also appeared in a community production – in 2019 she played Oliver Twist.
Her Elder Brother Jaden Rayne Boreanaz Is A Musician And Singer
Bella’s brother Jaden Rayne Boreanaz participated in the Traveling Hockey Players program in the early 2010s and spent the summer of 2012 at Heartland Hockey Camp in Minnesota. As a high school hockey player, Jaden had won regional competitions and had advanced to the state championships in 2017.
As of recently, Bella’s older brother is a singer and musician who has released several singles to date.
He started releasing his own music in 2021. Bella’s brother, who can be found on Spotify as Jaden Rayne, has approximately 3,679 listeners per month. Meanwhile, he is also the owner of the clothing line Pulse Los Angeles.
Bella Vita Bardot Boreanaz Parents’ Relationship; Her Father Cheated On Her Mother
Bella’s parents, David and Jamie, met at a Playboy party in 2001. They were married in November of the same year. Bella’s mother, Jamie Bergman, born 23 September 1975 in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a former model and actress who was Playboy Playmate of the Month in the 45th-anniversary issue of Playboy magazine in January 1999.
Although Jamie and David have been together since the early 2000s, their relationship suffered a major setback in the late 2000s.
That year, Bella’s father confessed to cheating on Bella’s mother with an unidentified woman. This happened at the time Bella was due to be born. Apparently, Boreanaz had also paid her money to keep the affair out of the public domain, including to his wife.
Later, the actor himself decided to come out after he reported that his lover started asking for more money and threatened him. In addition to all the scandals mentioned above, Boreanaz was also having an affair with Rachel Uchitel, a former lover of Tiger Woods.
In this case, there were allegedly open text messages between Uchitel and Bella’s father when they were having an affair behind Jamie’s back.
Despite this, Jamie and Boreanaz reconciled and saved their union, with Boreanaz claiming that his infidelity made his relationship with the children’s mother even closer.
How Rich Is Bella’s Father, David Boreanaz; What Is His Net Worth?
Bella’s father David Boreanaz’s net worth has been on the move since the early 90s and the Valentino actor is definitely among the wealthy TV actors. His net worth is estimated at around 30 million US dollars.
Even before the hit TV series “Bones”, he was already a regular on another domestic TV series, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. And although the exact amount of his salary at this time is only conjecture and speculation, he must have earned several hundred thousand dollars for his role as Angel.
It is worth mentioning that he also continued with his self-titled spin-off “Angel”, which is another of his sources of income. However, the figure worth talking about is the USD 250 000 per episode he received for his participation in the series Bones. And that is more than 200 times since 2005. Not to mention the fact that he also earned extra money as a producer in the final seasons of the series.
In addition to his royalties, he can very likely thank his extra wealth to a 2019 lawsuit against Fox; the studio had to pay out as much as 178 million dollars to the Bones stars and additional plaintiffs.
