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Regarding the latter, now aged 64, BB also dodges any questions. “I promised Nicolas never to talk about him in my interviews,” she only retorts when her interlocutor reminds her of her childbirth, in January 1960, in the living room of her apartment on Avenue Paul Doumer in Paris. . “You experienced it ‘like a tragedy’, you will say [speaking of the birth of your son, editor’s note]. (…) Have you found yourself, loved, protected?” asks Christian Brincourt. We will obviously never have the answer.
Brigitte Bardot and her son Nicolas: the story of unwanted motherhood
In the series Bardot, revealed on France 2 in 2023, an episode returns to her unwanted pregnancy in 1959. The 25-year-old actress had just married Jacques Charrier, whom she met a few months earlier on the set of Babette s' go to war. The latter wants more than anything to become a father, while his famous wife has known for a long time that she does not want children.
Having fallen pregnant with Roger Vadim in the past, she had two abortions. But the pressure put on her by her husband, her parents and society makes her understand that this time, she will not cut it. During “nine nightmare months”, the owner of La Madrague remained cloistered at home because she did not wish to divulge the “happy event”.
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