- - All About Brigitte Bardot's Estranged Son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier

Julie Tremaine, Escher WalcottDecember 28, 2025 at 7:25 AM

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Brigitte Bardot welcomed her son, Nicolas, with second husband Jacques Charrier in 1960

Bardot often spoke about how she didn't want to become a mother and was estranged from Nicolas

The French actress died in 2025 at age 91

A model, actress and singer, Brigitte Bardot had many titles, but one aspect she never wanted to be known for, however, was a mother.

"I'm not made to be a mother," Bardot wrote in her memoir 1990s' Initiales B.B. "I'm not adult enough — I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child." Nonetheless, she and then-husband Jacques Charrier had a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, in 1960.

The actor, singer and model was married four times: to director Roger Vadim from 1952 to 1957, to actor Jacques Charrier from 1959 to 1962, to German millionaire Gunther Sachs from 1966 to 1969, and to businessman Bernard d’Ormale in 1992.

She and Charrier welcomed their son Nicolas in Paris on Jan. 11, 1960, during a home birth in their apartment. In her memoir, Bardot spoke harshly about her pregnancy and her lack of desire to become a mother. "I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid,” she wrote. When she and Charrier divorced, he retained custody of Nicolas.

Before her death at age 91, Bardot had come under fire many more times for her controversial remarks: In 2018, she described the #MeToo movement as “hypocritical and ridiculous,” and in 2008 was fined over $25,000 for claiming Muslims in France were “destroying our country.”

Here's everything to know about Brigitte Bardot’s son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier.

Bardot gave birth to him at home

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Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier with their son Nicolas in 1960

On Jan. 11, 1960, Bardot welcomed son Nicholas with Charrier. According to a birth announcement in The New York Times, Nicholas was born at the then-couple's Paris apartment and weighed 7 lbs.

He was raised by his paternal grandparents

Bardot and Charrier divorced in 1962 and Nicholas went on to primarily live with his father’s parents.

“I didn’t bring up Nicolas because I needed support, roots,” Bardot later told an interviewer. “I couldn’t be Nicolas’ roots because I was completely uprooted, unbalanced, lost in that crazy world.”

Nicolas tried to censor Bardot’s memoir

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Brigitte Bardot and Jacques Charrier

In advance of Initiales B.B., Nicolas and Charrier attempted to censor the passages in her book that discussed them. They were unsuccessful, and the sections in which Bardot described Nicolas as the "object of my misfortune," became the most talked-about of the book’s release.

Bardot also wrote that she had two abortions before the pregnancy she carried to term, one of which was almost fatal, according to Newsweek. In the book, she also revealed that she attempted suicide because Charrier forbid her to continue acting so she could have their baby.

"I wanted to free myself — in every sense of the word — I wanted and could not, because I was a prisoner of my too famous name and possessive nature of Jacques, a prisoner of my body, my face, my child," she wrote.

Nicolas and Charrier sued Bardot over the book

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Jacques Charrier and his son Nicolas-Jacques during a trip to Iran on November 18, 1963.

When Initiales B.B. published in 1997, Charrier and Nicolas sued Bardot for an invasion of privacy. In the book, the French actress claimed her ex-husband was abusive and likened her pregnancy with Nicolas to having "a tumor growing inside of me."

A Paris court later ordered Bardot to pay around $40,000 in fines.

Charrier wrote a response to Bardot’s memoir

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Jacques Charrier gives a press conference on January 11, 1960 to announce the birth of his son Nicolas.

In 1997, Charrier wrote a book recounting his own version of their relationship, My Response to Brigitte Bardot. "By giving my version of the facts, I'm doing her a big favour," Charrier once said, per The Telegraph. "In a way, I rehabilitate her. The reality of her love for Nicolas, confirmed by the letters I kept, is much more to her credit than the horrors she wrote."

Charrier died in 2025.

Despite their past, Bardot and Nicolas did have some contact

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Brigette Bardot with her son Nicolas

In 1992, Bardot wed her current husband Bernard d’Ormale in Norway, near where Nicolas and his family lived. “Two weeks after we met, Brigitte phoned Nicolas because she wanted him to meet me, and we agreed to go and see him in Norway," d’Ormale told PEOPLE in 1992. "Just before we left, she said, ‘Why don’t we get married while we are there?’ So we did. But quietly. I am not a man for the limelight. Only close friends of ours knew."

Bardot promised her son she wouldn’t speak about him

In June 2024, French magazine Paris Match published a special issue dedicated to Bardot. In it, she revealed why she didn't talk about her son publicly, saying that she promised her son she would no longer speak out him in interviews, per Le Pointe.

Through Nicolas, Bardot was a grandmother and great-grandmother.

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