With actor Jacques Charrier, Brigitte Bardot had a son, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier, in 1960. Bardot did not want to be a mother—at a press conference, she said that she would have “preferred to give birth to a little dog”—and when the couple divorced in 1962, Jacques Charrier was awarded custody of their son. In her memoir, Initiales B.B. (1996), Bardot made a number of controversial comments about motherhood and her son. She notably described her pregnancy as “a tumor growing inside me” and said that Nicolas was the “object of my misfortune.” Bardot also wrote that “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.” For a number of years, Bardot and her son had no contact, but by 2018 the two were reportedly visiting annually.
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