Serge Gainsbourg wrote for and recorded with her his most noted song "Je t'aime...moi non plus", but she pleaded him not to release their recording, so her vocals were replaced by Jane Birkin one year later (1968).
Animal rights activist.
Born to Louis Bardot (1896-1975), nicknamed Pilou, who graduated from an engineering school to go into the family business, which manufactured liquid air and acetylene, and Ann-Marie Mucel (1912-1978), nicknamed Toty, her parents married in 1933. Toty had studied theatre and dance as a young lady, while Pilou wrote poetry in his notebook and published several volumes.
Breast cancer survivor.
Brought into fashion the choucroute (sauerkraut) hairstyle.
Chosen by Empire magazine as one of the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history (#9) (1995).
Gave birth to Nicolas-Jacques Charrier in 1960, who was raised by his father's family after her divorce from his father Jacques Charrier in 1962.
Good friends with French actor Alain Delon.
Her husband Bernard d'Ormale is a wealthy industrialist and supporter of the far-right French nationalist party Front National.
In 1994, scandalized by Sophia Loren's posing in furs in several printed ads for the Italian fur tailor company Annabella, she published an open letter to Sophia Loren, where she accused her acting contemporary of selling her name and her image 'to the most despicable of all advertising: promotion of furs'. It is, said Bardot, 'degrading, repugnant, lamentable and unworthy to accept money stained with the blood of animals'. Loren, added France's leading animal-rights campaigner, should boycott 'this abominable trade' and 'never forget that wearing a fur is wearing a cemetery on your back'. Loren, on holiday at the time, did not responded.
Is a vegetarian.
Is mentioned in many songs including "Brigitte Bardot" by Jordan Galland, "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel, "Warlocks" by Red Hot Chili Peppers and "It's Not Enough" by The Who.
Measurements: 35-1/2B-19-35 (officially measured October 1958), 36B-20-35 (filming ...And God Created Woman (1956)) (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Mentioned in the 1995 'Stardust' single by Menswear (her name is rhymed with 'bravado').
Mother of Nicolas-Jacques Charrier (b. 11 January 1960).
On the set of "La Bride Sur Le Cou" directed by her ex-husband Roger Vadim, she met his new girlfriend, Catherine Deneuve. About her she said "...behind Vadim lingered a 17-year-old brunette who dressed like me had her hair made like me. Her name was Catherine Deneuve. She had a certain air of a namby-pamby, that was back then unbearable." One night while filming on high mountains the crew got blocked so everybody slept in one room. Among the crew were Bardot, Vadim, Mireille Darc and Catherine Deneuve.
Once castrated a neighbor's donkey.
One of the leading animal rights activists in the world and the head of "Fondation Brigitte Bardot", which is a foundation dedicated to animal rights.
Owns homes in Saint-Tropez, Yvelines and Paris.
Prior to her worldwide breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1958), while still a starlet, Brigitte was a familiar in many Italian movies. She once shared a hotel room in Rome with Ursula Andress. It is mentioned in her autobiography. About this she recalled if only producers knew of it they would have think twice about their way of treating us back then.