‘Today, I believe that it can be learned. But at the time, it was painful,’ she once said. She recounted her experience of motherhood in a book called Initialed BB, published in 1996.
She compared her pregnancy to a tumour, saying, ‘It was like a tumour that fed on me, that I carried in my swollen body, thinking only of that blessed moment when we would finally get rid of it.’
★ Brigitte Bardot and her son Nicolas-Jacques Charrière
Published by Celluloid Heroes on Thursday, 11 August 2016
When she gave birth and was shown the baby, she remembers saying to the midwives, ‘I’m going crazy, I don’t want to see him anymore.’
In 1963, when she divorced Jacques Charrier, she left him full custody of the child and showed no interest in his upbringing. As her son grew up, he led a life about which his mother had no idea. In 1984, he married Norwegian supermodel Anne-Line Bjørkan and became the father of two children. He did not invite his mother to the wedding.
He had no contact with his mother until 1996, when legal proceedings brought them together again. After reading his mother’s book, Initials B.B., he was shocked and stunned by what she had written. He and his father sued Bardot for invasion of privacy and then for violation of the intimacy of intrauterine development.
Bardot was ordered to pay 150,000 francs to her ex-husband Jacques and 100,000 francs to her son Nicolas.
In 2014, she said, ‘I had a son who did not awaken maternal feelings in me — it’s not my fault…’
Her son leads a full life in Norway and lives there with his daughters Anna-Camille and Tea-Josefine.
But in 2009, something changed, and the actress decided to rebuild her relationship with her estranged son. ‘When Nicolas was a child, our relationship was painful. For him and for me,’ she said.
He still lives in Norway, but visits Bardot once a year in La Madrague, France. Sometimes he comes alone, sometimes he brings his family with him. Bardot meets with her granddaughters and even her great-granddaughter.
Now she loves her son very much. She said, ‘I love him in a special way. He is not like me. Physically, he has inherited a lot from his father.’
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