How many children did Brigitte Bardot have? Who is son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier?
Bardot, whose death at 91 was announced today, was notoriously outspoken about her resentment of her pregnancy.
French screen icon Brigitte Bardot, who has died at the age of 91, is survived by a single son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier. The product of Bardot’s second marriage, to the actor Jacques Charrier, Nicolas-Jacques was a child whose arrival she did not greet with joy.
“Like a tumor”
Bardot, who gave birth to Nicolas-Jacques in January 1960, punched herself in the stomach during her pregnancy, and even asked her doctor to administer morphine to cause a miscarriage. Abortion was not legalized in France until 1974.
Writing in her 1996 memoir Initiales B.B., Bardot compared the baby growing inside her to a “tumor”, and recalled: “I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid.” Bardot also once told the media she would have “preferred to give birth to a little dog”.
After Bardot and Jacques Charrier divorced in 1962, her former husband obtained sole custody of their son.
Mother and son end up in court
Now 65, Nicolas-Jacques married the Norwegian model Anne-Line Bjerkan in 1984. According to a September 2025 profile by Marie Claire France, the couple settled in Norway, where they have two daughters and are now grandparents.
In 1997, Nicolas-Jacques sued his mother over her remarks in Initiales B.B. Per a report by the Independent from the time, Bardot was ordered to pay her son close to $20,000 in damages. She was also told to pay Jacques nearly $30,000 over comments she had made about her ex-spouse.
In an interview given later in her life, however, Bardot indicated that her relationship with Nicolas-Jacques had improved in the years since their public legal conflict.
Talking to the French outlet Var Matin in 2018, she said: “We speak regularly. Living in Norway, he visits me once a year at La Madrague [in southern France], alone or with his family, his wife, my granddaughters.”
Bardot added: “I love him in a special way. And he loves me too. He looks a bit like me. Physically, he has inherited a lot from his father.”
🇫🇷 Brigitte Bardot, France's outspoken sex symbol of the 1950s and 1960s, who has died at the age of 91, tended to shoot from the hip.
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) December 28, 2025
A passionate defender of animal rights who also supported the far-right, here are some of her most famous (or infamous) utterances. pic.twitter.com/R011twAoMR
Who was Brigitte Bardot?
Bardot’s death was announced on Sunday, December 28, by the Brigitte Bardot Foundation.
An actress best known for movies such as 1956’s And God Created Woman, Bardot became one of the most prominent sex symbols of the mid-20th century. The Paris native was also a successful singer, but retired from entertainment in 1973 to focus on animal-welfare activism, setting up her eponymous foundation the following decade.
In later years, Bardot courted controversy over her political views. A supporter of the French far-right party the National Rally - and its predecessor, the National Front - she was fined on several occasions for inciting racial hatred.
How many times did Bardot marry?
Bardot was married four times: to filmmaker Roger Vadim (1952-1957), Jacques Charrier (1959-1962), Swiss socialite Gunter Sachs (1966-1969), and businessman and political adviser Bernard d’Ormale (1992-her death).
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