I needed a maternal figure myself, not someone depending on me" - the actress confessed. Brigitte Bardot's son contested his mother's publication of "Initials B.B. Memoirs", demanding the removal ...

Not since the Statue of Liberty has a French girl lit such fires in America,’ a Life magazine critic wrote of Brigitte Bardot in 1958. Two years earlier she’d starred in her estranged husband ...

Brigitte Bardot's career began in the late 1950s, a time of significant social transformation. Her early films, such as And God Created Woman (1956), showcased her natural beauty and charm, earning ...

Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty ; REPORTERS ASSOCIES/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Brigitte Bardot was one of the most recognizable faces of the 1950s and 1960s before becoming a controversial figure in later ...