It was her mother, Anne-Marie, who noticed her beautiful figure and her beauty. She opens her own shop and parades her daughter: a contract with Elle magazine, which presents the young Brie on the cover in 1949, makes her famous, and her desire to see the screen changes her life.
Her first love was Roger Vadim, an assistant director who would later become her husband, whom she met when she was 15 while trying out for a role in the movie Breaking Bad. Her parents are against this affair and Bree tries to vent on her father, who wants to send his unruly daughter to England.
At 17, she had her first illegal abortion. She was then hospitalized for a haemorrhage and anesthetized for a cardiopulmonary arrest. She was then saved. However, a third abortion was already famous when the 25-year-old actress refused to do everything she asked.
On June 18, 1959, Brigitte married for the second time. It was to a young actor, Jacques Charrier. At the wedding, there were more journalists than guests and the bride had to wear a plaid dress to hide her obnoxious belly.
Bardot wasn’t joking about his acting skills. Instead of reincarnating into a character, she says, she draws the character on her own skin. Her biggest asset was her looks. After the film “And God Created Woman”, the actress immortalized her body but risked losing it when she became pregnant.
“He was jealous of his wife, didn’t support her, and even beat her,” Bardot reports in his memoir, The Initials of BB. One day, when she was going out to dye her hair, her husband pushed her against a cupboard. The baby is safe and sound, but Brigitte injured her kidney and had to receive an injection of morphine to calm the pain. She then began to hate her husband. She takes sleeping pills and falls into a coma, and her husband, son of a colonel, finds himself in the barracks, cutting his wrists so as not to go to war.
Many years later, in his book “A response to Brigitte Bardot”, Jacques Charrier writes: “I have kept about thirty ardent love letters that Brigitte wrote to me in 1959, expressing her joy at having our child. He also wrote that his wife had threatened to kill herself if he went to war.
The Charriers were harassed by journalists and forced to give birth at home. A maternity ward is fitted out in the mansion; she gives birth to a baby boy on the night of January 10 to 11, 1960. She writes: “I have endured physical suffering, barely tolerable pain in her life and I have always accepted it.
But what gnawed at my insides and took me from ten o’clock to two o’clock that night was beyond human capacity. I screamed like a mortally wounded animal, unable to feel anything but pain, and I screamed selflessly. The contractions followed one another and I had no time to breathe. When the baby was shown to the mother, she shouted, “Don’t let that baby come near me!”. She refused to breastfeed her newborn. The baby was handed over to the nanny and the mother-in-law.
