After French icon Brigitte Bardot's death at age 91 was announced December 28, 2025, fans of the model and actress took a closer look at her personal life. While Bardot was best known for her film career and animal rights activism, her personal life also made headlines. Bardot was a mother to one child, a son named Nicolas Charrier who was born in 1960 while she was married to her second husband, Jacques Charrier. By her own admission, parenthood wasn't Bardot's cup of tea - she was unapologetically open about her ambivalence toward motherhood in her memoirs and in some media interviews. "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 in Initiales B.B. Lionel Richie's Family Guide: Get to Know His 3 Children and Their Mothers Despite having filed a lawsuit to keep the book from being released, Charrier later wrote his own memoir partially in an effort to mitigate the impact of Bardot's omissions on her reputation. "The reality of her love for Nicolas, confirmed by the letters I kept, is much more to her credit than the horrors she wrote," he told The Telegraph in June 2025. Keep scrolling to read more about Bardot's complicated relationship with her son Nicolas. She Gave Birth At Home Bardot opted to deliver her son at her home in Paris, France, successfully bringing her baby boy into the world on January 11, 1960. She Admitted She Didn't Want To Be A Mother Brigitte Bardot Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images Bardot was open about her ambivalence toward motherhood in her memoirs. "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 in her 1995 memoir, Initiales B.B. Per Newsweek, Bardot also admitted to punching herself in the stomach in an attempt to cause a miscarriage. She reportedly said she would have "preferred to give birth to a little dog." Her Son Was Raised By His Grandparents Also per Newsweek, after Bardot and Charrier divorced the latter was awarded full custody of their son, who was largely raised by his paternal grandparents. He Tried To Stop The Release Of Her Memoir In 1997, Nicolas and Charrier both sued Bardot in an attempt to stop the release of her tell-all memoir, Initiales BB. The actress claimed her ex-husband was abusive, while she wrote that she felt her growing son was "like a tumor." Her Ex-Husband Wrote His Own Response Charrier released his own memoir in 1997, something he said was meant to "rehabilitate" his ex-wife's image. "The reality of her love for Nicolas, confirmed by the letters I kept, is much more to her credit than the horrors she wrote," he told The Telegraph. Brigitte Quit Talking About Her Son In 2024, Bardot revealed she had promised her son she would quit talking about him publicly. "I promised Nicolas I would never talk about him in my interviews," she told the French outlet Le Point. She Had Grandchildren and Great-Grandchildren In the same interview with Le Point, Bardot revealed she has two granddaughters named Théa and Anna Charrier and three great-grandchildren. "Yes, I'm the great-grandmother of three little Norwegian children who don't speak French and whom I rarely see," she explained.