- - Brigitte Bardot's Relationship History: A Look Back at the Actress and Sex Symbol’s Marriages and Love Life

Escher WalcottDecember 28, 2025 at 10:21 PM

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Brigitte Bardot, who rose to international fame with her role in And God Created Woman, has died at age 91

The French screen icon married four times, but was notoriously private about her personal life

She welcomed her son, Nicolas, with her second husband Jacques Charrier, in 1960

Brigitte Bardot, one of the most renowned screen icons of the 1950s and 1960s, caught the attention of not just film fanatics.

The French actress, who became a controversial figure in her later years, had several high-profile relationships, including four marriages: she was wed to director Roger Vadim from 1952 to 1957, to actor Jacques Charrier from 1959 to 1962, to German millionaire Gunther Sachs from 1966 to 1969, and to businessman Bernard d’Ormale in 1992.

She had one child, son Nicholas, whom she shared with her second husband, French actor Charrier. The Contempt star split from Charrier after a turbulent three years of marriage and had an estranged relationship with her son after that, as Charrier retained custody.

Bardot said of finding companionship after her third divorce, “My dream would be the solitude of two. I would like to marry for the last time of my life. Right now, the best thing that could happen to me would be to live with a companion for the rest of my days,” per United Press International.

She and her fourth husband, businessman Bernard d’Ormale, remained married up until her death in December 2025.

Here’s a look at Bardot's past relationships and marriages.

Roger Vadim

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Brigitte Bardot and first husband Roger Vadim (left) at their wedding ceremony in Paris in 1952

Bardot tied the knot with her first husband, director Roger Vadim, at the age of 18 in 1952. Vadim, who was six years her senior, would go on to work with Bardot in his 1956 directorial debut, And God Created Woman, where she began an affair with her costar, Jean-Louis Trintignant.

The affair led to Bardot and Vadim's divorce in April 1957.

Vadim later said of the affair, per the Sydney Morning Herald, "I knew what was happening and rather expected it. I would always prefer to have that kind of wife, knowing she is unfaithful to me rather than possess a woman who just loved me and no one else … I wanted … a woman with a sense of adventure and sexual curiosity."

Vadim went on to marry Jane Fonda in 1965 and they welcomed their daughter Vanessa Vadim three years later.

Jean Louis-Trintignant

Courtesy everette collection Jean Louis-Trintignant and Brigitte Bardot

Bardot and Trintignant began their affair on the set of And God Created Woman in 1956, while the two were each still married. Trintignant divorced his wife, actress Stéphane Audran, later that year and the pair subsequently moved in together, per Hello! Magazine.

Bardot lived with Trintignant for two years before the relationship ended in 1958. Bardot had begun another affair at the time with musician Gilbert Bécaud, which led to the split.

Jacques Charrier

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Jacques Charrier and Brigitte Bardot pictured in 1959

Bardot married her second husband and costar in the film Babette Goes to War, Jacques Charrier, after a whirlwind romance on June 18, 1959, per the New York Times. They welcomed their son Nicolas-Jacques Charrier in January 1960 and divorced two years later.

Bardot spoke openly in the years that followed about not being happy about becoming a mother.

The late star wrote of her pregnancy in her highly criticized 1996 memoir Initiales B. B: Mémoires, "I'm not made to be a mother," Bardot wrote. "I'm not adult enough — I know it's horrible to have to admit that, but I'm not adult enough to take care of a child."

Bardot said of her pregnancy in the book, "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 referred to her unborn son as a “cancerous tumor” she tried to remove by punching herself in the stomach.

Charrier retained custody of Nicolas after his split from Bardot. In 1997, Charrier and Nicolas sued Bardot and her publisher for her memoir’s “hurtful remarks,” according to the Irish Times. Bardot was ordered to pay Charrier and Nicholas over $30,000, per The Independent.

Gunter Sachs

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Brigitte Bardot and her third husband Gunter Sachs pictured in 1967

Bardot met her third husband, German millionaire Gunter Sachs, in Saint Tropez in May 1966, per The Telegraph. The pair tied the knot two months later in Las Vegas.

“I thought he was magnificent,” Bardot said of Sachs in her memoir. “I was hypnotised... he had the same Rolls as me!" Bardot wrote that the next day, Sachs had a helicopter fly over her home and shower it with thousands of roses.

Days after their wedding, Bardot reportedly began an affair with singer Mike Sarne. Bardot divorced Sachs in 1969 after several reported affairs.

Sachs later said of his ex-wife, "A year with Bardot was worth 10 with anyone else.”

Seines Gainsbourg

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Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot

Bardot reportedly began an affair with French singer Serge Gainsbourg while married to Sachs. During their romance, she asked Gainsbourg to write her a love song, according to The Guardian.

Gainsbourg wrote two, the famous songs “Bonnie et Clyde” and “Je T’aime … Moi Non Plus,” which the pair recorded together in a steamy session that involved “heavy petting” in the sound booth, according to the sound engineer. Those sounds were included in the recorded version of the song.

Bardot later requested that the song be shelved after Sachs learned of its existence, per The Guardian. Gainsbourg later re-recorded the track with his new girlfriend, Jane Birkin, and the song went to number one in the U.K. Bardot released her own recording of the song in 1986.

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Bernard d'Ormale

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Brigitte Bardot with husband Bernard d'Ormale in 1994

Bardot entered her fourth marriage with businessman Bernard d’Ormale in 1992, which remained her longest relationship. The couple met in July of that year and married a month later.

According to d’Ormale, their relationship inspired Bardot to repair her relationship with her son. “Two weeks after we met, Brigitte phoned Nicolas because she wanted him to meet me, and we agreed to go and see him in Norway,” he told PEOPLE in 1992. “Just before we left, she said, ‘Why don’t we get married while we are there?’ So we did quietly … only close friends of ours knew.”

D’Ormale is a former advisor to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the former leader of the far-right party National Front, which Bardot openly supported.

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