Brigitte Bardot was a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. But his only son always remained in the shadowsaway from the spotlight. Born out of her relationship with Jacques Charrier, an actor and producer whom she married in 1959 when her mother was at the height of her fame, Nicolas-Jacques Charrier is now 65 years oldafter spending his life growing up with his father away from the public eye.
For Bardot, who died this Sunday at the age of 91, Motherhood was never a choice.
“I had a son, but You can’t say that this poor child came at the right time and gave me what I was missing.“, the actress confessed to Le Parisien in 2021.
In his autobiography “Initials BB” he went even further: ““I would have loved to give birth to a puppy.”She even went so far as to compare her pregnancy to “a tumor that had been feeding on me, that I had been carrying in my swollen flesh, just waiting for the blessed moment when I would finally be free of it.”
Bardot and Charrier separated in 1962 and fought over custody of their son. The court ruled in favor of the father. So Nicolas grew up far away from glamour, anonymousunder the direction of Charrier.
On September 27, 1984, he married Norwegian model Anne-Line Bjerkan in Béhoust, Yvelines. The family settled in Norway, where Nicolas Charrier still lives. The marriage produced two daughters: Anna and Théa, who made Brigitte Bardot a grandmother and then a great-grandmother.
She had three great-grandchildren who only spoke Norwegian, which made it difficult for him to communicate with her. Over time, however Nicolas’ relationship with his mother weakened.
“We talk often. Since he lives in Norway, he visits me in La Madrague once a year, alone or with his family, his wife and my granddaughters,” Bardot confessed in 2018.
But this bond remained fragile.
“I promised Nicolas that I would never talk about him in my interviews,” she told Paris Match in June 2024, respecting her son’s privacy.
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